Children's Community Nurse – CH HOME - Fixed Term | University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	19 November 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£38,682 - £46,580 pro rata
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	19 December 2025
Location:	Poole, BH15 2AJ
Company:	Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7572711/153-SP05303

Summary

We are looking for a skilled Paediatric nurse with a passion for hospital avoidance and community nursing. If you have excellent communication skills, and a commitment to compassionate, safe, and effective care able to work well within and thriving team.

Interview Date: 10th December 2025

Key Responsibilities:
• Manage a caseload of children and young people within Hospital at Home guidance and pathways
• Facilitate early discharge and prevent avoidable hospital admissions.
• Work collaboratively inpatient teams, and emergency departments.
• Provide specialist advice, education, and support across community and acute settings.

UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.

If a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.

UHD has active networks including Women’s, BAME, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.

AI tools may be used, but applications must honestly reflect your own skills and experience. Integrity is key to our recruitment process
• High standardsof Professional Practice to ensure quality and safety of patient care,experienceand the patient journey.

• Assess,planand implement ambulatory, unscheduled care within the acute hospital and community environment tofacilitatetimelyearly discharge and reduce readmission to hospital 

• Provides highlyspecialist advice and treatment planning support to clinical areas and to own caseload of patients. 

• Work closely withprimary careworking within unscheduled care.

• To provide CCN education to other staff and students ensuring developing andmaintainingbasic specialist knowledge and skills in the wider clinical teams to ensure continuity of high-quality care.  

• Advocate for the child /young person to ensure their needsare always safeguarded.Adhere to the trust and local child protection and safeguarding policy. 

• Deliver CCN services within an interagency, multi professional context Signpost, collaborate and refer to ensure that comprehensive care based on assessed need is delivered.

• To carry out all duties and conduct themselvesin accordance withthe NMC Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses and Midwives. 

• Recognise own strengths and limitations and ask for help when unsure and thereby act as an assertive and responsible practitioner   

• To value others and their contribution to the team by:  

• Recognising and valuing individual attributes of team members 

• Displaying sensitivity tocolleaguesneeds and feelings  

• Acknowledging equal opportunities for all team members 



This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Dec 2025

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