School Nurse Assistant

Transformation Unit; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lease Car Scheme

Electronics Scheme

Discounted Leisure and Travel

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a School Nurse Assistant (Band 2) based at Moat House Leisure Centre, Coventry. The role involves supporting the school nursing team with administrative duties and coordinating with schools to deliver health programs.

You will work within an NHS framework, with a commitment to equality, DBS checks, and flexible working arrangements where possible. Salary is £25,272 per annum, with yearly pay and a probationary period.

Qualifications

• Excellent organisational and personal skills.
• Excellent communicator who can promote interagency working between professionals and educational staff.
• Administrative and clerical duties support for the School Health Team.

Responsibilities

• Support the School Health Team with administrative and clerical duties.
• Work with schools to support the NCMP program.
• Promote interagency collaboration to improve child health outcomes.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication

Interagency collaboration

Administrative support

Job description

Employer South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Moat House Leisure Centre Town Coventry Salary £25,272 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/09/2026 23:59 Interview date 23/09/2026

School Nurse Assistant

Band 2

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree. We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the whole county. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.

We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 6000 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don't need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.

The first thing you will notice about us is how we take our values seriously. We believe that our values underpin everything we do. If you are interested in a role with us you need to make sure our values match your own.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide inclusive, safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks

Many of the roles we advertise have a requirement for a DBS check to be carried out. If you are successful for a role and it requires a DBS check the Trust will carry out the initial check and subscription to the DBS Update Service, however successful candidates will be expected to cover the associated costs . Details of this will be sent to successful candidates in their offer letter.

Probationary Period

All new staff to the Trust will be subject to a standard 3 month probationary period, the details of which will duly follow in your contract of employment.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued and respected and that our organisation is representative of all members of society. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – we value our employees, job applicants, students, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our values of being Inclusive, Safe, Effective, Compassionate and Trusted.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below.

We appreciate you completing the survey.

Agile and Flexible Working

All our staff will have a work base. However the Trust operates as an Agile Working Team therefore staff may be working from home on a regular basis as required by the service. However, occasionally travel around Warwickshire and into your base will be required so access to your own transport would be helpful.

The Trust also welcome staff to work flexibly and we would welcome the conversation at interview regarding flexible working.

The Trust offer a wide range of additional benefits to staff. Anyone who joins us on a substantive basis can assess things such as the Lease Car Scheme, Electronics Scheme, Discounted Leisure and Travel, Cycle to work scheme amongst many others available.

Car Parking

The Trust currently have limited availability of car parking spaces, as such are operating a waiting list for new starters joining the organisation.

To keep up to date on our latest recruitment activity follow us on twitter @swftrecruit or look us up on Facebook (Recruitment - South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust).

The Trust will only consider sponsoring staff for certain roles, however this will be considered on a case by case basis in line with current legislation. As an employer we are unable to offer sponsorship to all roles in particular we cannot offer sponsorship for roles below Band 5.

Job overview

Based at Moat House Leisure Centre

We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our dynamic and passionate school nursing team.

You will need excellent organisational and personal skills, be an excellent communicator who can actively promote interagency working between other professionals and educational staff.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an active member of the School Health Team working with others to promote positive outcomes for children and young people. The post holder’s main duties will include supporting the school nursing team with administrative and clerical duties working with schools to support the delivery of the Department of Health, National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP).

Working for our organisation

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4 th in the country for recommended place to work.

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