Band 6 SCPHN School Nurse

HCRG Care Group; Slough; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading community health provider as a Band 6 SCPHN School Nurse in Slough, dedicated to improving health and wellbeing for children and families. This full-time role involves working across schools and local venues to deliver preventative care and health education, while also leading a team of health professionals. You will contribute to service improvement and represent the service in safeguarding contexts, ensuring impactful support to the community.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to My Reward Hub discounts

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Continuing professional development opportunities

Employee engagement initiatives

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with SCPHN qualification in School Nursing.
• Experience with children and understanding of adolescent development.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a car.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.
• Provide proactive health education in schools.
• Support vulnerable children through inter-agency collaboration.

Skills

Teamworking

Leadership

Communication

Safeguarding

Education

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification

Tools

Clinical systems (EMIS, SystmOne)

Job description

Are you passionate about supporting children, young people and families to lead healthier lives? We’re looking for a dedicated Band 6SCPHN School Nurse to join our Public Health Nursing Team, delivering preventative and supportive care within the community. Working under the guidance of a Healthy Family Team Leader and alongside a multidisciplinary, inter-agency team, you'll play a vital role in promoting health and wellbeing across a defined population.

This varied role involves working in settings such as schools, family hubs, and other local venues to make a real difference where it matters most.

This is a full time role working 37.5 hours across the week based at our Regus office location in Slough.

Main Responsibility

• Lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, focusing on early intervention and tailored support for children and families.
• Build strong relationships with schools, early years providers, and community services to deliver joined-up care.
• Provide proactive health education and accessible drop-in clinics within school and community settings.
• Support vulnerable children and young people through collaborative, multi-agency working.
• Undertake health assessments and identify appropriate interventions or referrals.
• Manage and support School Nurses and Support Staff, including delegation, supervision, and mentorship.
• Contribute to service improvement, embedding evidence-based practice and national guidance into daily work.
• Represent the service in safeguarding and multi-agency meetings, helping ensure the right support is provided at the right time.

Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

• Registered Nurse with a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification in School Nursing (degree, diploma or certificate).
• Experience working with children and young people, with a good understanding of child and adolescent development.
• Strong teamworking and leadership skills, with the ability to organise, prioritise and delegate effectively.
• Confident communicator with excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, clinical governance, and relevant public health policies.
• Computer literate, with experience using clinical systems such as EMIS or SystmOne.
• Evidence of continued professional development and delivery of evidence-based practice.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a car.

Package Description

As a Band 6 SCPHN School Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our Slough Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £37,338 - £44,962 (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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