Childrens Outpatient Sister
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is a part-time secondment opportunity for an experienced Children's Nurse to support the Children's Outpatients Sister and Matron. The role involves leading and managing nursing and support staff across five sites, ensuring high-quality patient care and developing robust processes. You will also be responsible for clinical audit, promoting high standards, and adapting services to changing guidance. The department handles over 34,000 appointments annually, offering various paediatric services.
Key responsibilities
- Support the Outpatients Sister and Matron in leading and managing nursing and support staff within Children's Outpatients Departments trust-wide.
- Ensure high-quality care for patients through robust processes, clinical audit, and patient engagement.
- Adjust and adapt services according to changes in guidance, legislation, and research.
- Oversee professional and personal development of staff to meet service needs.
- Ensure the care delivered is high quality, and environments are clean, safe, and welcoming.
- Lead Outpatient staff and manage the provision of staff and equipment for seamless clinic operations, including direct clinical work and staff supervision.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (Child) on part 1 of the NMC register
- Valid UK NMC PIN
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent level of demonstrable professional knowledge/experience
- Supplemented by diploma level specialist training, experience, short courses
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Venepuncture training/competence
- Experience of supervising staff
- Substantial post registration experience
- Works within codes of practice and professional guidelines.
- Experience of quality assurance activities/ audit.
- Knowledge of safeguarding children legislation and policy and able to apply this to decision making.
- Good IT skills; able to use EPR and other electronic systems.
- Good interpersonal skills and able to work flexibly in the multidisciplinary team.
- Dexterity and accuracy required for, e.g. intravenous injections, syringe pumps and infusion, insertion of catheters and removal of suture, immunisations.
- Ability to work hours flexibly when service needs require
- Ability to travel independently across sites.
- Driving posts musty have valid Full UK driving licence
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification
- Experience of recruitment and selection
- Experience of undertaking performance appraisals
- Competent in skin prick testing
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Childrens Outpatient Sister
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
We're delighted to advertise this part time secondment, for
an experienced Children's Nurse, to support our Children's Outpatients Sister
and Matron in leading our clinical team in Childrens Outpatients trust wide.
The department delivers over 34,000 appointments per year,
running a combined total of 19.5 days per week from 5 different sites at:
University
Hospital North Durham
Darlington
Memorial Hospital
Bishop
Auckland General Hospital
Chester
le Street Community Hospital
Stanley
Primary Care Centre
In addition to clinics delivered by Consultants, Nurse
Specialists and a range of other professionals, OPD also delivers:
Paediatric
phlebotomy
Urgent
child protection medical assessments 5 days per week
Nurse led
allergy skin prick testing
Oral food
challenges
Patient
education
Historic
sexual abuse examination
Administration
of monoclonal antibodies
Endocrine tests
Main duties of the job
You'll support our Outpatients Sister and Matron to lead and
manage the nursing and support staff within the Childrens Outpatients
Departments trust wide, providing visible leadership.
You'll ensure high-quality care to the patients using the
service, through the development of robust and standardised processes, clinical
audit, promoting high stan
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