Band 6 School Nurse | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking a qualified School Nurse to join their innovative team. You will lead health initiatives, mentor staff, and work closely with children and families to address health needs. Candidates should possess strong leadership skills and be committed to team collaboration, with a SCPHN qualification preferred. This role includes flexible working hours to meet service needs.

Qualifications

• SCPHN qualified School Nurse or working towards it
• Strong skills in clinical leadership and public health

Responsibilities

• Assess health needs of children and the school population
• Lead a multidisciplinary team to address health needs
• Develop partnerships at school and district level
• Manage training programmes for nursing colleagues

Skills

Clinical leadership

Public health knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Teamwork

Education

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse – School Nursing qualification

Post-registration development and training

Job description

Overview

We are looking to recruit an SCPHN qualified School Nurse to join our enthusiastic and innovative School Nursing team. This post will be based at Hobmoor Road Health Centre, 192 Hobmoor Road, B10 9JH.

We are looking for a qualified school nurse with strong skills in clinical leadership and in-depth knowledge of public health. You should also be committed to team working and possess excellent interpersonal skills and be able to lead a multidisciplinary team of school health staff who will work with children, young people and families to identify relevant health needs and ensure these are addressed in line with the agreed service pathways.

Responsibilities

• Assess the health needs of individual children and the school population within your allocated district and support other districts within the team as needed.
• Proactively address factors affecting health to ensure that children and young people achieve the best possible outcomes and work with vulnerable children and families to reduce social exclusion and health inequalities.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team of school health staff to identify health needs and ensure actions align with service pathways.
• Develop multi-agency partnerships at school and district level.
• Manage Band 5 nursing colleagues in delivering medical needs training programmes for schools within the caseload.
• Maximise visibility and accessibility of school health services through local promotion and engagement with schools, pupils (including school ambassadors), partner agencies and the voluntary sector.
• Mentor pre-registration students and provide long-arm mentoring for post-registration students in line with BCHC guidelines.
• Undertake holistic assessment of children and young people, write and deliver care plans, and delegate tasks where appropriate.
• Contribute to multi-agency interventions for children subject to safeguarding, Early Help or SEND.
• Develop and participate in school partnership agreements and district profiles; use demographic data to identify health trends and plan effective services.
• Act as a liaison between children, teachers, parents, medical officers, primary health care teams and others.
• Carry out home visits as required and work in settings other than schools as necessary to meet needs, including delivering a drop-in session in senior schools.
• Lead allocation meetings to distribute work equitably across the team.
• Maintain accurate records and prepare reports, ensuring confidentiality and supporting other team members in record-keeping.
• Participate in case conferences, case reviews and core groups where school health interventions are provided.
• Write court reports as required in conjunction with legal services.
• Provide cover for colleagues as designated by the Team Leader.
• Support the medicines in schools policy and participate in trust clinical governance and audit programmes.
• Use software packages relevant to clinical care and ensure data is entered onto the system in a timely and accurate manner.
• Ensure all activity and outcomes are recorded on Rio electronic patient record and other systems to evidence service activity and effectiveness.
• Engage in the ChatHealth text messaging service.
• Work flexibly until 6pm on weekdays and occasional weekends to meet service needs.
• Undertake the role of duty nurse and lead at allocation meetings.

Qualifications

• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse – School Nursing qualification or working towards qualifying soon (offer of post conditional on successful course completion).
• Evidence of post-registration development and training.

Be Part of Our Team

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services in people\'s homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We are committed to integrated, personalised care rooted in local communities and strive to deliver outstanding, integrated care as a key NHS provider in the West Midlands.

If you want to be part of our team and work with a Foundation Trust focused on best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Be Part of Our Team: To maintain the Code of Professional Conduct as laid down by the NMC and be responsible for the recording and re-registration of all nursing qualifications; lead a multidisciplinary team; lead the development of multi-agency partnerships; manage and mentor staff; promote school health services locally; undertake holistic assessments and develop care plans; participate in safeguarding and SEND work; contribute to district health planning; maintain records; support governance and audits; use appropriate software and ensure timely data entry; engage in service-wide communication and data reporting; and work flexibly to meet service needs.

Note: This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Sep 2025.