NS 14.15 CYP Continuing Care- Norfolk and Suffolk
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
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 permanent Band 6 Children & Young People (CYP) Continuing Care Nurse role. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team to assess, coordinate, review, and case manage care packages for children and young people with complex health needs. The role involves ensuring high-quality, person-centred care in line with national frameworks and contributing to service improvement initiatives. It requires working closely with various health, social care, education, and voluntary sector partners.
Essential criteria
- A competent CYP expert with excellent knowledge and experience working with complex needs and terminal illness.
- Experience undertaking complex assessment and evaluation of care
- needs to determine appropriate support packages that are
- personalized to need and outcomes identified.
- Ability to problem solve complex issues in a constructive and
- professional manner within team and other agencies.
- Demonstrates awareness of the importance of working as part of a
- multi-disciplinary team.
- Communicates effectively verbally, in writing and in electronic formats.
- Communicates with CYP and family/carers in a caring and empathetic manner.
- A high level of understanding and experience of CYP with complex
- needs, terminal illness and life changing situations in acute/community settings.
- An in-depth awareness of NHS Continuing Care and National
- Frameworks and NHS 5 Year Plan.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Band 6 role.
- Experience with working in the community.
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of
- experience of working at a similar level in specialist area. LDN/RSCN/RN
- (Child).
- Accredited teaching course.
- Analytical
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate
- issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected
- demands.
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate.
- Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages
- from complex analysis.
- Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement,
- problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where they may
- be a number of courses of action.
- Autonomy
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without
- supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Can work flexibly in a changing ICB environment.
- Ability to work at various locations and occasionally out of county, work remotely from laptop as needed and adapt working situation to undertake assessments/reviews.
- Communication
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and
- presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear
- ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
- Evidence of success in efficient and effective project and programme
- management.
- Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations,
- requiring persuasion and influence.
- Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks with all multiagency teams.
- Other
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
- Used to working in a busy environment.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Commitment to continuing professional development.
- Professional calm and efficient manner.
- Effective organiser.
- Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a
- difference by focusing on goals.
- May be required to travel to ICB Offices and other venues within the
- ICB area as required.
- A competent CYP expert with excellent knowledge and experience working with complex needs and terminal illness.
- Experience undertaking complex assessment and evaluation of care
- needs to determine appropriate support packages that are
- personalized to need and outcomes identified.
- Ability to problem solve complex issues in a constructive and
- professional manner within team and other agencies.
- Demonstrates awareness of the importance of working as part of a
- multi-disciplinary team.
- Communicates effectively verbally, in writing and in electronic formats.
- Communicates with CYP and family/carers in a caring and empathetic manner.
- A high level of understanding and experience of CYP with complex
- needs, terminal illness and life changing situations in acute/community settings.
- An in-depth awareness of NHS Continuing Care and National
- Frameworks and NHS 5 Year Plan.
- Experience of Band 6 role.
- Experience with working in the community.
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of
- experience of working at a similar level in specialist area. LDN/RSCN/RN
- (Child).
- Accredited teaching course.
- Analytical
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate
- issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected
- demands.
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate.
- Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages
- from complex analysis.
- Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement,
- problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where they may
- be a number of courses of action.
- Autonomy
- Ability to work on own initiative and org
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.
Posted 10d ago · Closes in 7d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board
NS 14.15 CYP Continuing Care- Norfolk and Suffolk
The closing date is 13 September 2026
Job summary
1 x 0.8 WTE Permanent Role
Join Our Team
We are looking for a motivated and compassionate Band 6 Children & Young People
(CYP) Continuing Care Nurse to join our Continuing Care Team. This is an exciting
opportunity to play a key role in ensuring children and young people with complex
health needs receive high-quality, person-centred care that enables them to achieve
the best possible outcomes.
Working within a supportive multidisciplinary team, you will be responsible for
assessing, coordinating, reviewing, and case managing children and young people who
are eligible for Continuing Care, ensuring care is delivered in line with the National
Framework for Children and Young People's Continuing Care.
Main duties of the job
About the Role
As a CYP Continuing Care Coordinator, you will manage a caseload of children and
young people with complex health needs, undertaking comprehensive assessments,
coordinating care packages, and reviewing ongoing care to ensure services remain
appropriate and effective.
Working closely with the CYP Continuing Care Lead and a wide range of health, social
care, education, and voluntary sector partners, you will help deliver safe, effective, and
high-quality services while supporting
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