Children's Nurse at Swansea Bay University Health Board

The job at Swansea Bay University Health Board

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 health board such as Swansea Bay University Health Board, that work means a caseload that can span the whole pathway — acute wards, outpatient clinics and community teams — without changing employer, because the board is responsible for all NHS care in its area. Boards often run broad rotations across acute and community services, and specialising later rarely means leaving the organisation. 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 Swansea Bay University Health Board pays band 5 exactly what every other NHS employer in Wales pays it: £32,557 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.

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