Community children’s nurse faculty launched by QICN

A new faculty designed to strengthen the voice, visibility and professional development of community children’s nurses has been launched by the Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing (QICN).

Launched today, the new QICN Community Children’s Nurse Faculty will act as a hub for education, leadership, and collaboration among the profession, while supporting workforce wellbeing, the development of future leaders and excellence in practice.

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The faculty will be led by Queen’s Nurse and community children’s matron Rebecca Daniels, who has already been chairing the QICN’s community children’s nurses’ network and leading work to support specialist practitioner qualification standards in this area.

The QICN said the new faculty formally recognises the ‘advanced practice, leadership, and influence’ of community children’s nurses, while ‘providing a national platform for professional development, advocacy, and innovation’.

Ms Daniels added: ‘To have a place for community children’s nurses on a national platform of excellence really helps to continue to raise the profile of the incredibly complex work delivered by passionate children’s nurses across the UK every day.’

Having been a community children’s nurse for 20 years, she said launching the faculty was one of the ‘proudest moments’ of her career.

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The faculty was officially launched during an event at Appleby Health Centre, part of East London Foundation Trust, which brought together community children’s nurses, senior leaders, and key stakeholders to celebrate the profession.

QICN chief executive Steph Lawrence said: ‘Community children’s nurses are central to delivering compassionate, joined-up care for children and families in their own homes and communities.

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‘The launch of the Community Children’s Nurse Faculty is an important step in recognising their expertise, amplifying their voice, and ensuring their experience helps shape policy, education, and practice at a national level.’

The new faculty joins those recently launched for general practice nurses, adult social care nursing and community mental health and learning disability nursing by the QICN.