School Nurse

Cambridgeshire Community Services Nhs Trust; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Cambridgeshire is seeking a passionate School Nurse to join their 0-19 Healthy Child Programme team. The successful candidate will promote health, prevent ill health, and work closely with families and communities. Responsibilities include assessing needs and contributing to high-quality care services for children and families. Benefits include a robust induction and ongoing staff development opportunities.

Benefits

Robust preceptorship for newly qualified staff

Comprehensive induction package

Continuous staff development opportunities

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and resilient with a passion for change.
• Ability to promote health and prevent ill health.
• Experience in working with families and communities.

Responsibilities

• Work within an integrated 0-19 HCP skill mix team.
• Assess needs, delegate and supervise work within the team.
• Contribute to ensuring accessible, high‑quality services for families.

Job description

Overview

Are you enthusiastic, resilient, excited to embrace change and passionate about providing an excellent service to families in our localities? Cambridgeshire Community Services 0-19 Healthy Child Programme (School Nursing) invites you to join our team. The role is to work as part of a team leading the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme. The School Nurse promotes good health and prevents ill health in young people, families and communities by identifying unmet health needs, initiating, developing, implementing and evaluating plans of care. The School Nurse will work within a defined area, assess needs, delegate and supervise work within the team. They promote early intervention, health promotion, advocacy, empowerment, social inclusion and the reduction of health inequalities. They work in partnership with young people, families, schools, communities, primary care, statutory and voluntary services and other partner agencies to facilitate health‑enhancing activities. The School Nurse also establishes networks within the community to inform, influence and implement policies affecting health outcomes. To ensure accessibility and quality of our services, we offer a Duty Desk service for all families with children aged 5–19 years residing in these areas.

Rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission, we provide high‑quality innovative services across much of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives. Our staff are central to this success, and we are committed to staff engagement and development. All are welcome to apply.

Responsibilities

• Work within an integrated 0-19 HCP skill mix team
• Promote health, prevent ill health, identify unmet health needs, and associate plans of care
• Assess needs, delegate and supervise work within the team
• Foster early intervention, health promotion, advocacy, empowerment, social inclusion and reduction of health inequalities
• Work in partnership with young people, families, schools, communities, primary care, statutory and voluntary services, and other partner agencies
• Establish and utilise networks within the community to inform and influence health policy and practice
• Contribute to ensuring accessible, high‑quality services for families

What we offer / Benefits

• A robust 1 year preceptorship for all newly qualified staff or those returning to practice
• A comprehensive induction package
• A holistic approach to providing support and guidance via management, safeguarding and restorative supervision
• Continuous staff development identified via supervision and appraisal to support leadership skills
• Opportunity to work for an NHS organisation with Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Opportunity to build strong relationships with partner agencies to achieve the best outcomes for children and families