The closing date is 13 October 2025
Salary: £31,049 to £37,796 a year £31,049 – £37,796 Per Annum
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the busy Children’s Community Nursing Team as a Children’s Community Nurse. The successful candidate will embrace the challenge of working across different environments to meet diverse service user need. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience working as an autonomous practitioner and gaining knowledge across an array of specialties, strengthening multi-professional working relationships. It is a role whereby excellent interpersonal skills, attention to detail and professional curiosity is paramount.
Please note as part of the interview process we may have a youth panel interview alongside our formal interview process, details of this will be provided to successfully short listed candidates’ as required.
For an informal chat or to discuss the position in more detail please contact Paula Montgomery via 01752 439444.
***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and ‘At Risk’ status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***
Main duties of the job
- To provide a specialist community nursing service for children with acute and ongoing care needs within residential and educational settings.
- To provide support to the lead professional for a child when planning and assessing a child’s health needs ensuring they are met within health care budgets if needed.
- Provide education, advice and support empowering families to manage their child’s condition at home and within the specialist schools.
- Provide or ensure the safe provision of evidenced based clinical care in both generic and specialist community nursing settings.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- o Proven evidence of recent clinical skills
- o Recent CCN demonstrable experience
- o Demonstrable experience of nursing children with complex needs
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience of palliative care
Qualifications
Essential
- o 1st level registered nurse RN Child (Degree Level)
- o NMC Registration
Aptitude & Abilities
Essential
- o Excellent communication skills
- o High degree of organisational skills
- o Ability to make decisions and work unsupervised
Desirable
- o Research/audit ability
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).