Hospital @ Home Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 21/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
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 role is for an acute children's nurse or Children's Community nurse to join the Hospital @ Home service at the Royal London Children's Hospital. The team visits acutely unwell children in the community to provide treatment, aiming to prevent hospital admissions or reduce length of stay. The successful candidate will work autonomously, providing highly skilled acute nursing care at home. This position is a Band 6 role, initially covering maternity leave, and requires excellent team working and decision-making skills.
Essential criteria
- CN or RN (Child)
- Relevant First level degree or masters in appropriate subject or working towards
Desirable criteria
- Recognised teaching/ mentorship qualification
- Previous audit experience
- Evidence of Work based learning and ability to meet competencies
- Significant post registration experience within an acute or community nursing setting.
- Experience of facilitating clinical decision making and the application of professional judgement in clinical situations
- Awareness of professional responsibilities
- Completion the Advanced assessment of the presenting child Module at MSc level
- Community Qualification
- Independent prescribing or commitment to work towards
- Knowledge of current issues relating to patient safety
- Knowledge of current legislation affecting health
- Good knowledge of anatomy and physiology and the management of an acutely unwell child
- Excellent clinical nursing skills pertinent to the role
- Ability to effectively prioritise and organise own workload
- Assertively manages situations which may be complex and involve conflict or crisis.
- Experience of the application, of professional judgement in a range of clinical and non-clinical situations.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, is engaged and able to negotiate and mediate
- Communicates with clarity and direction, both written and verbally
- Analyses and identifies trends in clinical information, identifies issues and proposes solutions to problems
- IT skills, use of data and spread sheets, production of clear reports, action plans and presentations
- Venepuncture and Cannulation skills
- Other
- Adaptable and responsive to changing needs of the service
- Ability to accept wide responsibility and use own initiative
- Ability to identify and prevent stress in self and others, also taking effective action to manage the situation when it does impact on capability.
- Able to cope with and confidently work in adverse situations, being able to rapidly appraise and manage situations
- CN or RN (Child)
- Relevant First level degree or masters in appropriate subject or working towards
- Recognised teaching/ mentorship qualification
- Previous audit experience
- Evidence of Work based learning and ability to meet competencies
- Significant post registration experience within an acute or community nursing setting.
- Experience of facilitating clinical decision making and the application of professional judgement in clinical situations
- Awareness of professional responsibilities
- Completion the Advanced assessment of the presenting child Module at MSc level
- Community Qualification
- Independent prescribing or commitment to work towards
- Knowledge of current issues relating to patient safety
- Knowledge of current legislation affecting health
- Good knowledge of anatomy and physiology and the management of an acutely unwell child
- Excellent clinical nursing skills pertinent to the role
- Ability to effectively prioritise and organise own workload
- Assertively manages situations which may be complex and involve conflict or crisis.
- Experience of the application, of professional judgement in a range of clinical and non-clinical situations.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, is engaged and able to negotiate and mediate
- Communicates with clarity and direction, both written and verbally
- Analyses and identifies trends in clinical information, identifies issues and proposes solutions to problems
- IT skills, use of data and spread sheets, production of clear reports, action plans and presentations
- Venepuncture and Cannulation skills
- Other
- Adaptable and responsive to changing needs of the service
- Ability to accept wide responsibility and use own initiative
- Ability to identify and prevent stress in self and others, also taking effective action to manage the situation when it does impact on capability.
- Able to cope with and confidently work in adverse situations, being able to rapidly appraise and manage situations
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 3d
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Barts Health NHS Trust
Hospital @ Home Nurse
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an acute children's nurse who's looking to branch out into community nursing? Or a Children's Community nurse looking for more acute focussed nursing care at home?
The Royal London Children's Hospital is looking to recruit or second a band 6 children's nurse to cover maternity leave to support delivery of the innovative and exciting hospital @ home service commissioned by Tower Hamlets CCG. The team visit acutely unwell children in the community to offer treatment preventing them from attending hospital and/or staying in longer than needed. The H@H team forms part of the Pan London H@H forum with its additional support and links that helps to provide a cohesive and high quality service to the children of Tower Hamlets.
The successful candidate will have excellent team working and decision making skills and put their patients first. We are looking for experienced and highly skilled children's nurses who can work autonomously to care for acutely unwell children at home. Bart's health has a wealth of learning and career development opportunities that will support you in your career aspirations.
Will you take the leap?
Main duties of the job
To facilitate efficient and effective patient flow from attendance to hospital to referral home, helping to ensure that we
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