School Staff Nurse | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Polegate; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking an experienced School Nurse to join their team in Polegate, England. This role involves delivering public health initiatives and managing a caseload of children. Ideal candidates will have experience in promoting health and safeguarding. The organization supports flexible working arrangements, fostering an inclusive environment. Applications are invited from current NHS Trust staff only.

Qualifications

• Experience in promoting public health initiatives.
• Ability to conduct health needs assessments.
• Strong skills in safeguarding children and families.

Responsibilities

• Promote public health initiatives to support healthy lifestyles.
• Deliver care packages for children's health needs.
• Manage a caseload of children and young people.
• Lead quality improvement projects.

Skills

Public health initiatives

Health needs assessment

Safeguarding children and families

Managing a caseload

Job description

About the role

We are recruiting for an experienced School Nurse to join our professional Team. Working within the East Sussex School Health Service which supports children and young people from 5‑19 years, you will work as part of a team led by our Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (SCPHNs) to deliver a range of public health interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of children, young people and their families of East Sussex.

Daily responsibilities

• Promoting public health initiatives to support Healthy lifestyles for Children and Young people and their families.
• Delivering packages of care e.g. healthy weight, toileting, behaviour/ parenting, emotional health and well‑being.
• Undertaking health needs assessment
• Providing support in the daily management of Young people's texting service
• Managing a caseload of Children and Young People
• Focusing on high impact areas set out in the healthy child programme
• Safeguarding of children and families
• Leading on QI projects

Our values and culture

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values: compassionate, aspirational, responsive, excellent.

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission. The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work.

Flexible working

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both.

Eligibility & driving requirement

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [e-mail] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

Application process

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non‑clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

Closing date

This advert closes on Sunday 23 Nov 2025.