Band 6 Nurse

Overview

This is a permanent part-time opportunity at 0.74 WTE for an experienced and motivated Children’s Nurse to join the Children’s Community Nursing Team (CCNT). The role supports children and young people across Redbridge, working within the Children’s Directorate and alongside community nursing services in Barking and Havering.

About the service

The post sits within a busy children’s service that operates across Queen’s Hospital in Romford and King George’s Hospital in Ilford. The wider service includes inpatient wards, a co-located four-bedded HDU, CYPAU, a day unit with POSCU and haematology provision, outpatient clinics with a GP hot clinic, Clinical Nurse Specialists, and community nursing support. The department also supports a 32-cot Level 2 NICU with outreach for discharged babies and delivers paediatric emergency care across two Emergency Departments.

The team is expanding under the leadership of the Divisional Director of Nursing and the Head of Nursing for Children and Young People. This role will be supervised by a Band 8a Lead Nurse for Children’s Community Nursing and supported by senior nursing and multidisciplinary colleagues. Staff are offered corporate training, internal leadership development, and access to university partnerships to help advance their careers.

Key duties

You will work independently in patients’ homes and community settings, delivering safe, evidence-based care to children and young people.

Typical duties include assessing needs, planning care, implementing treatment, and reviewing outcomes through personalised care plans.

You will manage a caseload of children with complex health conditions and long-term needs.

The role involves carrying out specialist interventions such as IV therapy, enteral feeding, tracheostomy care, and support for ventilation.

You will also recognise signs of deterioration and escalate concerns promptly, while keeping electronic patient records accurate and up to date in line with Trust policy.

What the role requires

Strong clinical expertise in paediatric community nursing is essential, along with the confidence to practise autonomously in home settings.

Excellent communication skills, a constructive attitude toward service improvement, and the ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary and multi-agency partners are important.

Applicants must hold a full, clean UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle.

Ongoing professional learning is actively encouraged and supported.

Additional information

The organisation describes itself as continually improving and focused on delivering care that patients value and staff are proud of. It has introduced a new electronic patient record system and reports that its maternity services were rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

The trust operates from two main sites, KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. It also runs two busy emergency departments that saw more than 346,000 visits in the previous year, and it is seeking £35m to transform the A&E department at Queen’s and reduce corridor care.

Other notable services include a regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre, Hyper Acute Stroke Unit, a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford, an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch, and Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These diagnostic centres are open 12 hours a day, seven days a week.

The trust employs around 8,400 staff from 146 countries, many of whom live in the local London boroughs served by the organisation. Flexible working is available for many staff, over 400 employees are on Ofsted-accredited apprenticeship programmes, and the trust states that it is a London Living Wage employer.

For an informal discussion, Fiona Cook, Children’s Community Nurses, can be contacted by email at fiona.cook14@nhs.net or by phone on 01708 435 000, extension 6554.