Early Help Specialist School Nurse

NHS; Tewkesbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic Early Help Specialist School Nurse in Tewkesbury. This role involves developing partnerships to support children's health and well-being, alongside a clinical caseload. The ideal candidate will have a passion for public health nursing and strong leadership skills to inspire colleagues and improve health outcomes for children and families.

Benefits

Clinical Supervision

Health and wellbeing support

Induction and Preceptorship programmes

Qualifications

• Knowledge of the Public Health Agenda for School Nursing.
• Experience of working across agencies.
• Evidence of continued Professional Development.

Responsibilities

• Work in partnership with health services to provide early help for children.
• Engage with schools to support children and families.
• Manage a clinical caseload alongside specialist responsibilities.

Skills

Adaptability

Passion for innovation

Education

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse)

Skills for teaching and assessing in clinical practice ENB 998/FLAP

Child Protection training above foundation level

NMC registration at level 1 and 3

Job description

Go back Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Early Help Specialist School Nurse

The closing date is 27 May 2025

*Brand new Early Help Specialist School Nurse*

We have created an exciting new specialist role in the School Nursing Service in Gloucestershire, providing an opportunity for us to develop partnership working to ensure children get the help and support they need early on to enable them to thrive and develop. The role will evolve according to health need of targeted populations staring with helping children become ready for school. Using strong leadership skills in our innovative and progressive School Nursing Service, the post holder will form robust working relationships with partners, develop new pathways and interventions and demonstrate impact and outcomes for children and families.

The post holder will be based in Tewkesbury and the specialist work will be developed along side a caseload that will be allocated from the Tewkesbury School Nurse team. It is expected that the role will be a 40:60 split between Specialist role : Clinical caseload work.

*Are you a dynamic Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) seeking a new challenge?

*Do you have the passion to be a leader and to inspire colleagues in the specialist field of public health nursing; working with children and young people early on to improve their health outcomes?

Then this job is for you!!

Main duties of the job

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

We can offer:

Diverse work leading a skill-mixed team developed through robust competency frameworks

Induction and Preceptorship programmes to underpin transition into role

Clinical Supervision, Safeguarding Supervision and Restorative Supervision is available to support professional practice and development.

Health and wellbeing of ourselves and our colleagues is important. Working for our NHS Foundation Trust offers many staff benefits and the School Nursing Service supports the mental and emotional wellbeing of all our colleagues.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

The post holder shall work in partnership with health services in the CYPS directorate to provide early help and support for children and families who are most in need, to have the best start in life. This will be achieved through:

Identification of children through available data, who are about to start school and are not achieving developmental and attainment goals e.g. continence, communication.

Engaging with schools and early years settings to ensure they have the knowledge and skills required to support such children and families.

Supporting children and families to improve health goals through targeted group work provided by public health nursing teams.

This specialist work will be completed alongside a clinical caseload that would usually be expected of a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse including but not limited to being the named nurse for a secondary school drop-in, supporting families who have a safeguarding plan in place, bladder and bowel support, supporting pre-registration students and inducting new staff. The post holder will be flexible with work demands but on average will have a 60% caseload, 40% specialist role split.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse).
• Skills for teaching and assessing in clinical practice ENB 998/FLAP or equivalent (or equivalent)
• Child Protection training above foundation level.
• Evidence of continued Professional Development.
• NMC registration at level 1 and 3.

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

• Knowledge and clear understanding of the Public Health Agenda for School Nursing.
• Specialist knowledge and understanding of local GCSP and National Child Protection Guidelines
• Experience of working across agencies
• Understanding and experience of the application of research in practice
• Experience in identifying and assessing health needs including community health needs

Attributes

• Adaptability and passion to innovate to improve quality and develop services.
• An interest in data and how it can be used to aid service design

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust