Band 6 SCPHN School Nurse - Basildon

HCRG Care Group; Basildon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team as a SCPHN School Nurse, where your passion for supporting children and families will make a meaningful impact. This role offers the chance to lead in public health services, mentoring staff while delivering essential care in schools and communities. You'll collaborate with various professionals to ensure vulnerable children receive the support they need. With a focus on your personal growth and a commitment to excellence, this is an opportunity to thrive in a warm, inclusive environment that values your contributions. Enjoy a fulfilling career that truly makes a difference every day.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to My Reward Hub

Flexible wage access

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Career development opportunities

Inclusive culture with innovation fund

Qualifications

• SCPHN qualification and current NMC registration required.
• Experience with children and families is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the Healthy Child Programme across all levels.
• Manage and supervise School Staff Nurses and Support Staff.
• Work closely with schools and healthcare providers.

Skills

Community Public Health Nursing

Child Development Understanding

Safeguarding

Clinical Governance

Mentoring

Education

SCPHN Qualification

Job description

At HCRG Care Group, we know that School Nurses play a vital role in helping children and families achieve their full potential. As a SCPHN School Nurse, you’ll work as part of our Essex Child & Family Wellbeing Service, which is built on collaboration—with the community, for the community.

You’ll take on a leadership role in your Healthy Family Team, helping to shape the delivery of public health services to children, young people, and their families.

You’ll be a trusted partner for schools, healthcare providers, and multi-agency teams, using your expertise to guide and support others while directly influencing the lives of the families you serve.

Our team is known for its warm, inclusive culture where everyone’s contributions are valued. Whether you’re mentoring students or collaborating with other professionals, you’ll feel supported to grow and thrive in a role that truly makes a difference.

Main Responsibility

As a SCPHN School Nurse, you’ll take on a rewarding role that’s both varied and impactful. You’ll be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing preventative and supportive health care to children, young people, and their families in schools, homes, and community venues.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Delivering the Healthy Child Programme across all four levels.
• Managing and supervising School Staff Nurses and Support Staff, helping them prioritize and organize their caseloads.
• Mentoring students and new team members, fostering their development as they grow into their roles.
• Working closely with headteachers, healthcare providers, and multi-agency teams to ensure seamless support for school-age children.
• Confidently supporting vulnerable children and families, collaborating with safeguarding teams to reduce risk and prevent harm.

We know this work is as challenging as it is fulfilling, so you’ll have access to robust support from our Healthy Family Team Leaders and a wider multi-disciplinary network.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate

We’re excited to welcome dedicated nurses who are passionate about making a difference.

To thrive in this role, you’ll need:

• A Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) qualification and current NMC registration.
• Experience working with children, young people, and families.
• A solid understanding of child and adolescent development, safeguarding, and clinical governance.
• A valid driving license and access to a car for work.

We value fresh perspectives, so whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to this area of nursing, we’ll support you in achieving your career goals.

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification

Package Description

Join Our Team as a SCPHN School Nurse

Are you passionate about supporting children, young people, and families to lead healthier, happier lives? If so, we’d love for you to join our Essex Child & Family Wellbeing Service as a SCPHN School Nurse.

You’ll find a welcoming, supportive team and an opportunity to make a meaningful difference every day.

We believe in looking after you as well as you look after others. As part of our team, you will enjoy:

• A Band 6 salary, NHS pension, and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Access to My Reward Hub, offering discounts on everyday essentials like groceries, plus cashback and vouchers for treats for you and your loved ones.
• The flexibility to access your wages as you earn them, helping you stay on top of life’s little emergencies.
• Comprehensive mental and physical wellbeing support, including recipes, activity challenges, trauma support, counselling, legal advice, and even debt management tools.
• Exciting career development opportunities with bespoke training pathways and eLearning through our “Outstanding” learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, inclusive culture where your ideas are encouraged and celebrated. With an annual £100,000 innovation fund, we help bring your creative solutions to life.
• The pride of working in a service recognized for clinical and quality excellence, with most of our services rated “Good” or “Outstanding” by 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.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

• Salary Band 6 AfC Terms & Conditions with NHS Pension
• Frequency Annual
• Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/25229/15260
• Contract Type Permanent - Full Time
• Closing Date 18 May, 2025
• Job Category HCRG - Nursing and Midwifery Registered