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Integrated care organisation · Belfast, Northern Ireland

Children's Nurse at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

Working as a children's nurse at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust in Belfast, Northern Ireland means a caseload that can cross the ward, the outpatient clinic and the patient’s home inside a single organisation, because acute and community services sit under one employer. Band 5 starts at £31,049 on the Northern Ireland 2025/26 scale. No workforce or staff survey figures for this organisation are in the open dataset yet, so this page sets out the caseload, the national pay ladder and where the local courses are, and states nothing it cannot source.

Children's NurseBand 5 entryNorthern Ireland
Not published Children's Nurses employed here Organisation-level workforce data is not in the open dataset yet
£31,049 Band 5 starting salary Northern Ireland, 2025/26 scale
Not published Median pay, all occupations Not published in the open data
Not published Staff survey response rate Not in the open dataset for this organisation

The job at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

Children's nurses care for patients from newborns through to adolescents, interpreting behaviour and non-verbal cues to spot rapid deterioration in children who cannot always describe their symptoms clearly. They work closely with parents and guardians alongside the child, and as part of multidisciplinary teams including doctors, play specialists, psychologists and social workers. Children's nurses practise across hospital wards, day-care centres, outpatient clinics and community or home settings. Babies, children and young people from birth to adolescence, and their parents or guardians.

At an integrated care organisation such as Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, that work means a caseload that can cross the ward, the outpatient clinic and the patient’s home inside a single organisation, because acute and community services sit under one employer. Rotations can follow the pathway rather than the building, so you can see the same patient group in hospital and at home without applying for a different job. Across the profession as a whole, children's nurses work in settings including hospital wards, day-care centres, outpatient clinics and community and home settings — an organisation of this type will run some of those services and not others, which is why two posts with the same job title in the same city can be very different jobs.

Pay is not an employer decision. Agenda for Change is negotiated nationally and set separately in each of the four nations, so Belfast Health and Social Care Trust pays band 5 exactly what every other NHS employer in Northern Ireland pays it: £31,049 at the bottom of the band on the 2025/26 scale. What genuinely differs between two employers is the caseload, how rotations are structured, how much protected time you get for supervision and continuing professional development, how much band 6 progression is built into the establishment, and how far you travel between sites. Those are the questions worth asking at interview.

This page states no figure specific to Belfast Health and Social Care Trust because none is published in the open data. When the workforce and staff survey feeds include this organisation, the establishment size, the response rate and the theme scores will appear above.

Employer
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Organisation type
Integrated care organisation
Based in
Belfast
Nation
Northern Ireland
Regulator
NMC registration required
Usual starting band
Band 5
Local courses
1 in Northern Ireland

What you would be paid, band by band

Northern Ireland Agenda for Change rates, 2025/26 — the same at every NHS employer in the nation.

Agenda for Change pay for children's nurses in Northern Ireland
Band Starting Point 2 Point 3 Top of band
Band 4 £27,485£30,162 £30,162
Band 5 Entry level £31,049£33,487£37,796 £37,796
Band 6 £38,682£40,823£46,580 £46,580
Band 7 £47,810£50,273£54,710 £54,710
Band 8a £55,690£58,487£62,682 £62,682
£27,485 Band 4 · Newly qualified First post after registration, for roles that start at band 4 (e.g. nursing associates).
£31,049 Band 5 · Newly qualified First post after registration, usually rotational.
£38,682 Band 6 · Specialist Typically two to four years in; a defined clinical specialty.
£47,810 Band 7 · Advanced or team lead Clinical leadership, complex caseload, supervision.
£55,690 Band 8a · Consultant or service lead Service-wide responsibility or consultant practice.

Children's Nurse pay in detail · The whole Northern Ireland scale · Band 5 children's nurses

Where to train for this job near Belfast

1 university in Northern Ireland runs an approved pre-registration course for children's nurses. Placements are commissioned with the trusts and boards nearest the university, so these are the courses most likely to place students with Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, across undergraduate degree routes.

Approved courses for children's nurses in Northern Ireland
Course University Route Length
Professional Nursing Children and Young People Queen's University Belfast BSc 3 years

Children's Nurses at other organisations in Northern Ireland

Same registration, same bands, different caseload — the organisation type is the variable, and the size of the establishment tells you how many colleagues and how many rotation slots sit behind the job title.

Published establishments for children's nurses at NHS organisations in Northern Ireland
Organisation Type Based in Full-time equivalent
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust This page Integrated care organisation Belfast
Northern Health and Social Care Trust Integrated care organisation Antrim
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust Integrated care organisation Belfast
Southern Health and Social Care Trust Integrated care organisation Craigavon
Western Health and Social Care Trust Integrated care organisation Londonderry

A blank establishment figure means the organisation did not return one for this profession, not that it employs nobody. Only organisations whose type runs this service are listed.

Other nursing roles at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

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Where this page’s data comes from

The figures on this page are national or regional. No workforce, staff survey or inspection data for this organisation is in the open dataset yet.