School Staff Nurse

NHS; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Band 5 School Staff Nurse to join the Wiltshire-wide School Nursing Team. This role involves providing essential health services to children and young people, ensuring their health needs are met through a holistic approach in a community setting. You will work closely with a dedicated team to deliver high-quality care and support.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Free tea, coffee, and milk

Access to wages as you earn

Support for mental and physical wellbeing

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with an interest in community health.
• Experience in child health and safeguarding.
• Ability to work in a team and collaborate with various health professionals.

Responsibilities

• Delivering the Healthy Child Programme in schools.
• Assessing and promoting children's health needs.
• Collaborating with schools and community services.

Skills

Clinical Governance

Child Health Assessment

Public Health Advocacy

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 School Staff Nurse working as part of the Wiltshire-wide School Nursing Team.

You will be a Registered Nurse with an interest in providing services to Children, Young People, and their families within the community setting. You'll join an experienced team focused on clinical excellence.

We are delivering our School Nursing Public Health Service to provide the Healthy Child Programme using a holistic approach, ensuring comprehensive Public Health Service to the school-aged population and their families.

The service embraces electronic record keeping, mobile working, and a Single Point of Access (SPA) for all services delivered to the 0-19 population, providing one record for one child.

Working within the Trowbridge Team, you will be part of a team of other Staff Nurses and School Health Support Workers, led by Specialist Community Public Health School Nurses, working closely with other SCPHNs, schools, and community services supporting the 0-19 population, such as Health Visitors, Community Nursery Nurses, Speech and Language Therapists, and Community Paediatricians.

This is a part-time position working 30 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

1. Understanding the concept of Clinical Governance and being skilled in the identification, assessment, and protection of vulnerable children and families.
2. Supporting the school nurse community service as part of the skill-mixed public health team and contributing to the development of the service through liaison with and support from the Specialist School Nurse and innovative practices to meet health needs.
3. Ensuring a child-centered service is delivered through active engagement with young people in planning and service delivery.
4. Working across organizational boundaries to identify population health needs in line with organizational policies and priorities. Leading delegated work from the Specialist School Nurse, utilizing leadership, prioritization, and assessment skills.
5. Collaborating with key partners to address public health needs as an advocate for children, young people, families, carers, and the school health service.
6. Assessing children's health needs to identify deviations from normal development, in line with Safeguarding Children and the Early Support assessment.
7. Promoting healthy lifestyles through opportunistic discussions and health education aligned with the School Health Needs Assessment.

For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description.

About us

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 focusing on experience, efficiency, and outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children’s 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 help more than half a million people each year, guided by our values: we care, we think, we do.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people. We are a Disability Confident committed company, providing facilities, adjustments, and technical solutions to be inclusive.

Roles may close earlier than the listed date if they become highly popular. We encourage early applications. To learn more about HCRG Care Group, visit our website.

Job responsibilities

As a School Staff Nurse, you'll be part of our valued team across Wiltshire.

You will feel valued as a Band 5 School Staff Nurse within HCRG Care Group, with access to rewards and benefits including:

• £29,970 - £36,483 Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub for discounts, cashback, and vouchers
• Access to wages as you earn them for emergencies
• Support for mental and physical wellbeing, including recipes, activity challenges, trauma support, legal, debt, and life management help, plus career coaching and counselling
• Opportunities for professional development through our Learning Enterprise
• An open culture encouraging ideas to help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through health and care, with innovation funding
• Working for an organization committed to high clinical and quality standards, with many services rated good or outstanding by CQC

Person Specification

General Requirements

• Click Apply to view the Job Description on our career site

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. A Disclosure check will be required to check for any criminal convictions.