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Children's Nurse at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

Working as a children's nurse at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust in London means a mental health caseload across inpatient units, community mental health teams, crisis services and, in most organisations, child and adolescent and secure services. Band 5 starts at £32,073 on the England 2026/27 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 entryEngland
Not published Children's Nurses employed here Organisation-level workforce data is not in the open dataset yet
£32,073 Band 5 starting salary England, 2026/27 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 South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS 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 a mental health trust such as South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust, that work means a mental health caseload across inpatient units, community mental health teams, crisis services and, in most organisations, child and adolescent and secure services. Rotations here tend to move between inpatient and community teams rather than between body systems, and supervision arrangements matter more than in almost any other setting. 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 South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust pays band 5 exactly what every other NHS employer in England pays it: £32,073 at the bottom of the band on the 2026/27 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 South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS 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
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
Organisation type
Mental health trust
Based in
London
Region
London
Nation
England
Regulator
NMC registration required
Usual starting band
Band 5
Local courses
1 in London

What you would be paid, band by band

England Agenda for Change rates, 2026/27 — the same at every NHS employer in the nation.

Agenda for Change pay for children's nurses in England
Band Starting Point 2 Point 3 Top of band
Band 4 £28,392£31,157 £31,157
Band 5 Entry level £32,073£34,592£39,043 £39,043
Band 6 £39,959£42,170£48,117 £48,117
Band 7 £49,387£51,932£56,515 £56,515
Band 8a £57,528£60,417£64,750 £64,750
£28,392 Band 4 · Newly qualified First post after registration, for roles that start at band 4 (e.g. nursing associates).
£32,073 Band 5 · Newly qualified First post after registration, usually rotational.
£39,959 Band 6 · Specialist Typically two to four years in; a defined clinical specialty.
£49,387 Band 7 · Advanced or team lead Clinical leadership, complex caseload, supervision.
£57,528 Band 8a · Consultant or service lead Service-wide responsibility or consultant practice.

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

Where to train for this job near London

1 university in London 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 South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust, across undergraduate degree routes.

Approved courses for children's nurses in London
Course University Route Length
Nursing with Registration as a Children's Nurse King's College London BSc 3 years

Children's Nurses at other organisations in London

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 London
Organisation Type Based in Full-time equivalent
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Acute trust Romford
Barts Health NHS Trust Acute trust London
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Mental health trust London
Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust Community trust London
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Acute trust London
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust Acute trust Thornton Heath
East London NHS Foundation Trust Mental health trust London
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Acute trust Carshalton
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust Specialist trust London
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Acute trust London
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Acute trust London
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Acute trust London
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust This page Mental health trust London

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 South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS 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.