School Nurse Staff Nurse | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust; Walsall; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking staff nurses for public health nursing roles focusing on children and young people. Applicants can be experienced or newly qualified. The role includes health assessments, planning care, and delivering health promotion activities. Successful candidates will work closely with various partners to support families and promote health and wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people.
• Knowledge of health promotion activities and programs.
• Ability to assess and plan care effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and support to children and young people.
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care for individuals.
• Contribute to health promotion programs.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Health assessment

Health promotion

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Overview

We welcome applications from both experienced staff nurses and newly qualified nurses who are keen to start a career in Public Health Nursing. You will join the service at an exciting time as we progress our 0-19 pathways, working more closely with Health Visiting services and our partners in education, social care and Early Help to take a family approach to the promotion of health and wellbeing, prevention and early intervention.

Post holders will work within a team under the direction of a Specialist Practitioner School Nurse to deliver the Healthy Child Programme 5-19 in schools and other education settings. You will develop health promotion activities, work with partners in education, social care, Early Help and voluntary sector to deliver services to local communities. As a staff nurse you will hold a caseload of children requiring targeted and specialist HCP level support. You will carry out holistic health assessments and plan care for children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team to provide advice, care and support to children and young people, and their parents/carers in a locality of the borough
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individual children and young people
• Contribute to the planning and delivery of health promotion programmes and interventions
• Work as part of multi-disciplinary and agency teams to support children, young people and families

About Us

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides integrated acute and community healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and we are continually upgrading.

We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from multiple sites covering Walsall. Our multidisciplinary services include rapid response and home-based care, so that those with long term conditions and the frail elderly can remain in their own homes.

Responsibilities (continued)

• Undertake health assessments to assess, plan, implement and review care
• Deliver health promotion provision
• Support children and young people in need of safeguarding or in need
• Act as lead professional for children and young people needing Early Help
• Provide advice and guidance to parents/carers and professionals on a range of health and health-related issues
• Support children and young people with continence and enuresis problems
• Be able to produce comprehensive reports and undertake analysis of risk
• Work with professionals from partnership agencies to provide localized support to children and young people

Additional

This advert closes on Friday 19 Sep 2025