Children’s Community Nurse: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 36,943 to 44,900 £ / Year

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

  • The Staff Nurse will deliver high quality, personalised, compassionate care to service users, providing a range of specialist interventions.
  • Ensure consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence, which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct.
  • Lead the delivery of comprehensive service user assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of patient-centred care in a range of settings.
  • Provide clinical supervision and support to junior colleagues, including students.
  • Assist and support the manager, as directed, to deliver a nurse-led integrated care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.
  • Maintain a safe and therapeutic working environment, working collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and maintaining accurate records.
  • Band 5 Nursing roles are only open to staff with a Nursing registration, obtained as a result of completing a qualification recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Main duties of the job

To offer nurse-led continence clinics across Greenwich & Bexley, and to support children and young people with complex needs in special schools, and at home as part of the special school & children’s continuing care nursing service.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

  • NMC Registered nurse with children’s experience, or a registered children’s nurse.

Desirable

  • Evidence of CPD related to a specialist children’s nursing subject.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with children and young people in the community. This could be as a student, or pre-registration.
  • Experience of working with children and young people with complex medical needs. This could be as a student.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of common bowel and bladder issues in children

Knowledge

Essential

  • An understanding of basic bladder and bowel management.

Skills

Essential

  • Clinical skills in history taking and assessment.

Desirable

  • Communication skills in the community.

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).

Closing Date: 13 October 2026

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