Children's Nurse jobs in Yorkshire and The Humber

What a first post here looks like

Newly qualified children's nurses in Yorkshire and The Humber are appointed at band 5, and that band means the same thing in every organisation in the region: £32,073 at the bottom, £39,043 at the top, under the England pay circular for 2026/27. No employer here can outbid another for you on basic pay, which changes what you are really choosing between.

The post itself is usually rotational: you are appointed to the department rather than to one clinical area, and you move through a sequence of placements — commonly general paediatric medicine, surgical and specialist children’s wards, within a children’s hospital or a general trust’s children’s unit — before settling on a specialty. This is where the choice between employers in Yorkshire and The Humber actually bites. A large acute organisation holds more of those rotations in-house; a specialist or community organisation may hold only some, and you would need to change employer to get the rest. Read the rotation list in the advert, not the job title, and ask which rotations are guaranteed rather than aspirational.

Yorkshire and The Humber has both sides of the market: 21 NHS organisations that plausibly employ children's nurses, and 1 approved course producing graduates into it. That matters when you are judging how hard a first post will be to get. Where local course provision is heavy relative to the number of employers, expect more applicants per advert and more weight on where you did your placements — students who placed with a trust are known quantities when a band 5 post opens there. One further NHS organisation in the region is of a type that rarely holds posts in this profession, so it is left out of the list below.