This role is listed by an employer that holds a live Home Office sponsor licence on the Skilled Worker route.
This occupation falls under the Health and Care Worker route. Salaries set by national pay scales (NHS bands) at or above the relevant band rate typically meet the occupation's requirement.
Closest occupation match: SOC 2237, Other registered nursing professionals. Pay for this occupation is set by national pay scales (NHS bands), so no single Home Office going rate applies.
Individual eligibility depends on personal circumstances. These figures are public reference information, not advice or a verdict on this job.
Job summary
Our busy Children's Services span two sites - Queens Hospital and King George's Hospital.. We deliver a comprehensive range of general medical and surgical services to our local population and have two inpatient wards, one with a co-located 6 bedded HDU, we also have 2 Assessment Unit's across the sites (CYPAU - QH and Dahlia - KGH).
There is a day unit with a POSCU and haematology service, two Children's Outpatient departments with a GP 'hot clinic', a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists and two Children's Community Nursing teams serving the tri-boroughs.
Our well established 32 cot level 2 NICU has both community and outreach teams to support babies on discharge.We have a well-established Children's Site Practitioner team who have oversight of all areas each shift and support with patient flow, escalations of care and coordinate our new Martha's Rule initiative.
Our Children's nursing team is led by our Director of Nursing for Babies, Children and Young People. This is a Trust wide role to ensure children and young people receive high-quality care wherever they access services across our organisation.
We have in house leadership programmes and work with a range of universities to ensure you can progress through academic pathways to support your career development.
If you are an enthusiastic, dynamic and highly motivated nurse who is committed, caring and compassionate come and join our fantastic team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for assessment of care needs of patients, planning programmes of care, implementation and evaluation of these programmes without direct supervision.
To assist with education and supervision of learners. At times expected to being in-charge of the ward / shift and to supervise and co-ordinate other staffs as appropriate, develops self and others professionally.
When you join our team, you will have lots of opportunities to expand your knowledge and ensure your skills are kept up to date with current evidence-based learning. You will be supported by Clinical Nurse Educators, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners and Quality Managers, alongside our friendly multidisciplinary teams. You will receive Trust induction with corporate training and bespoke modules for Children's Nurses.
About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.
We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Details
Date posted
27 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£36,943 to £44,900 a year per annum inclusive
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
162-8070-WC
Job locations
Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
RM7 0AG
United Kingdom
Similar sponsored roles
All rolesLast verified against our ingestion on 28 October 2026; sponsor register dataset 2026-10-29.