Band 5 Community Children's Staff Nurse

As a Community Children's Staff Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in our Surrey Children's Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality, compassionate nursing care to children and young people in their own homes and community settings? We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Children’s Staff Nurse to join our dedicated team supporting children and young adults aged 0–18 across a designated locality in Surrey.

In this autonomous role, you will work independently to manage your own caseload, providing care in a variety of environments including homes, nurseries, and schools. You'll play a vital role in improving health outcomes and supporting families within their community, while being part of a wider supportive and collaborative team.

Your Base:
You’ll be contractually based at one of our Office Hubs in Surrey, with the flexibility to work in a hybrid or agile manner. At HCRG Care Group, we embrace a flexible-first approach, allowing you to balance community-based work with home or office-based tasks.

Join us and be part of a team that’s making a real difference in the lives of children and families across Surrey.

Main Responsibilities

Professional Practice
Deliver care in line with NMC Codes, professional standards, and organisational policies, maintaining respect, dignity, consent, and accurate documentation.

Clinical Care & Skills
Provide specialist nursing care to children aged 0–18, including procedures such as central line management, tracheostomy care, PEG feeding, catheterisation, infusions, and symptom management, including end-of-life care.

Assessment & Care Planning
Conduct physical and psychological assessments, develop and evaluate individualised care plans in collaboration with families and multidisciplinary teams, and support early discharge and continuity of care.

Teamwork & Leadership
Support day-to-day operations of the community nursing team, participate in staff planning and rota management, including weekends and a 24-hour end-of-life care rota, and contribute to strategic service development.

Communication
Communicate effectively with children, families, and professionals, handling sensitive or complex information with empathy and clarity. Overcome communication barriers and represent the team in meetings such as safeguarding and discharge planning.

Resource & Risk Management
Use and manage clinical equipment accurately, work within budget, monitor supplies, order equipment, and ensure safe, efficient use of resources. Identify and report clinical or safeguarding risks and contribute to audits and incident resolution.

Autonomy & Development
Work independently to manage own and team workload, contribute to quality improvement, share learning from training, use evidence-based practice, and support data collection and reporting systems.

Ideal Candidate

Essential Criteria

• Registered Children’s Nurse with evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Strong understanding of community health services and current nursing workforce challenges.
• Confident communicator with excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal skills.
• Broad clinical knowledge and competence, with ability to prioritise, delegate, and manage own workload effectively.
• Computer literate, reliable, flexible, and able to remain calm under pressure.
• Confident, innovative, and assertive in clinical decision-making.
• Able to travel independently across Surrey and work in a variety of community settings.

Desirable Criteria

• Practice Assessor/Supervisor or equivalent mentorship qualification.
• Willingness to undertake a Children’s Community Nursing Degree.
• Previous experience caring for unwell children in the community or hospital.
• Involvement in clinical audit or supervision is an advantage.

Other Requirements

• Access to a car insured for business use to support travel across the county.

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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