SCPHN School Nurse Band 6

HCRG Care Group; Paulton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

My Reward Hub

Wage access

Wellbeing resources

Career coaching

CPD / eLearning

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Band 6 SCPHN School Nurse to join BaNES Child and Family Public Health Service at Paulton Memorial Hospital. The role delivers high-quality health care and support for children and the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme.

This part-time, term-time only position (22.5 hours/week) offers NHS Pension, Agenda for Change terms, and access to wellbeing and development resources through the learning and development team.

Qualifications

• Public health nursing qualifications and registration as appropriate for SCPHN Band 6.
• Experience with health promotion and safeguarding in a school setting.
• Commitment to pro-active health care and early intervention.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of high-quality health care and support for children and the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme.
• Deliver health care, information and signposting to families to reduce health inequalities.
• Manage a caseload within schools and oversee health reviews at transitions.
• Deliver health education sessions, drop-ins, and preventive interventions.
• Collaborate with multi-agency partners to safeguard and support children and young people.

Skills

Public health nursing

MECC

Trauma‑informed practice

Clinical judgement

Part-time availability

Job description

Package Description

As a Band 6 SCPHN School Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our BaNES Children’s Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:£39,959 - £48,117FTE salary - 3 days per week term time only(Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditionsMembership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to youAccess to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest ratesOnline and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 SCPHN School Nurse to join our friendly and welcoming BaNESChild and Family Public Health Service to lead and deliver high quality, pro‑active health care and support for children and the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme.You will deliver health caresupport and advice as part of the Health Child Programme, to reduce health inequalities, safeguard children and improve outcomes.This is a part‑time (22.5 hours per week) term‑time only role that will be based at Paulton Memorial Hospital.For more details on the role, we encourage you to contact:[e-mail]@hcrgcaregroup.com

Main Responsibilities

Understand the children and young people’s public health agenda and work in partnership with other agencies to improve the health of school aged children across B&NES.Establish and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders and partner services, working collaboratively to support the provision of early universal access to information for health issues.Use clinical judgement and public health expertise to identify health needs early, determine potential risk and provide early intervention to prevent issues escalating.Use compassionate, evidence-based approaches, including MECC and Trauma Informed approaches.Manage an identified caseload of secondary and primary schools.Undertake population and school level health needs assessment to identify local need and deliver outcome-focused interventions aligned with the High Impact Areas of the Healthy Child Programme (0-19), promoting physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing.Assess children’s health needs to identify any deviation from normal development in line with Safeguarding Children policies and procedures, leading on Early Help support when required.Deliver drop‑ins, health education sessions, needs‑led interventions, information provision and signposting/introduction to other agencies to support and empower children, young people and families to take ownership of and manage their health care.Support transition, including delivering health reviews to all children at points of transition, following up identified needs and providing individual health needs assessments as required.Deliver young persons’ sexual health service ‘Clinic in a Box’ in school and community settings, following completion of the appropriate sexual health training.Contribute to multi‑agency early support assessment of children and young people, including safeguarding, SEND and Early Help Care Plans, taking on the lead professional role where appropriate.For a full list of role responsibilities please refer to the attached job description.

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 with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children 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 directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.