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Registered Children's Nurses

Registered children's nurses nurses provide general or acute nursing care for children and young people with chronic or acute conditions and assist medical doctors with their tasks.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£8,815
£28,830
£45,416

New workers start around £8,815. Normal pay is £28,830 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £45,416.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 35,152 vacancies for this type of job

5.50%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services for patients, supervises the implementation of nursing care plans.

  • Advises on nursing care, disease prevention, and nutrition.

  • Works with parents to explain procedures and health conditions and to help them care for children when they return home.

  • Administers drugs and medicines, applies surgical dressings and gives other forms of treatment.

  • Monitors children's progress, including the interpretation of the behaviour of young children too young to communicate.

  • Manages own case load.

  • Assists medical doctors and works with other healthcare professionals to deal with emergencies and pre-planned treatment of patients.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Nursing

  • Nursing Care

  • Auditing

  • Midwifery

  • Working With Children

  • Pediatric Nursing

  • Pediatrics

  • Child Protection

  • Clinical Governance

  • Emergency Departments

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communication

  • Management

  • Teaching

  • Planning

  • Leadership

  • Mentorship

  • Research

  • Teamwork

  • Decision Making

  • Interpersonal Communications

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

Routes to this career

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Nursing (Children's Nursing)

University of Greenwich

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · London · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Children's Nursing

Buckinghamshire New University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Uxbridge · 01/2026

Tariff points: 112/136

Children's Nursing

University of Chester

BN (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Chester · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Children's Nursing

Kingston University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · London · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 120/136

Children's Nursing

University of Wolverhampton

BNurs (H) · 3 Years · Full-time · Walsall · 09/2025

Tariff points: 104/104

Children's Nursing

Bangor University

BN (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Bangor, Gwynedd · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 104/120

Children's Nursing

University of Suffolk

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Ipswich · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Children's Nursing

University of Manchester

BNurs (H) · 3 Years · Full-time · Manchester · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: N/A

Nursing (Children's)

University of Bradford

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Bradford · 09/2025

Tariff points: 120/120

Children's Nursing

De Montfort University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Leicester · 09/2025

Tariff points: 120/120

Nursing (Children's)

Oxford Brookes University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Oxford · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Children's Nursing

University of Roehampton

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Croydon · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Children's Nursing

Wrexham University

BN (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Wrexham · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 96/112

Nursing (Children's)

University of West London

BN (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Reading · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/120

Nursing (Children)

Anglia Ruskin University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Cambridge · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Child Nursing (January)

Birmingham City University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Birmingham · 01/2026

Tariff points: 120/120

Child Nursing

University of Dundee

BSc · 3 Years · Full-time · Dundee · 09/2025

Tariff points: N/A

Nursing (Children)

University of Nottingham

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Nottingham · 09/2025

Tariff points: N/A

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