SCPHN School Nurse Harrow

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Harrow; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Harrow seeks a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) to deliver proactive services for children and families. Responsibilities include clinical leadership, safeguarding, and supervising staff. The ideal candidate will have a nursing qualification, experience with complex families, and be able to manage and communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team. This full-time position offers a salary of £44,485 to £52,521 per annum.

Qualifications

• Must be a registered nurse or midwife with relevant qualifications.
• Evidence of continuous professional development required.
• Ability to work with complex families and in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and act as a role model.
• Ensure compliance with mandatory training.
• Participate in staff appraisals and identify learning opportunities.

Skills

Communication with multi-disciplinary team

Maintaining clinical records

Supervision and management

Sensitivity and assertiveness

Education

NMC registered nurse or midwife

Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse

Degree or Masters in related subject

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

SCPHN School Nurse Harrow

The closing date is 21 November 2025

The Specialist CommunityPublic Health Nurse School Nurse will work as part of the 0‑19 team delivering a high quality, pro‑active service for children, young people and their families. The aim of the service is to achieve equity of health outcomes for the local population through the provision of evidence based and needs‑led service. The post holder will contribute to the identification and assessment of child and family health needs and the delivery of a universal core service, targeted interventions and public health interventions to children and their families within a defined locality.

Main duties of the job

• Using their clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible
• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalating concerns when necessary
• Escalating safety concerns and, by doing so, acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
• Being open and transparent about their own practice
• Supervising the work of others
• Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made
• Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement
• Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements

About us

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all School Nurses (Specialist Community Public Health Nurses) to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their families and carers and also other staff members.

We expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.

We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.

We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.

As a specialist practitioner we expect you to role model these values and contribute to ensuring that they are embedded in the practice of the team.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Leadership

To act as a role model for nursing colleagues and the wider skill mix team.

To participate in school nursing team activity through the duty system.

To participate in skill mix staff appraisal and performance development planning process, identifying training needs of team members, in conjunction with the team leader.

To help identify learning opportunities for team members.

To participate in the professional supervision of skill mix team members, ensuring standards are maintained and poor performance is addressed appropriately.

To act as a role model and motivate team colleagues to deliver a responsive service.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• NMC registered nurse or midwife
• Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
• Degree or Masters in related subject
• Nurse prescribing

Previous Experience

• Experience of working with complex families
• Experience of multi-disciplinary integrated team working
• Ability to work flexibly and respond to changing demands and methods of working both individually and within a team
• Ability to work without direct supervision and proactive in seeking support with decision making when required.
• Knowledge of Infection Control legislation and maintenance of standards
• Knowledge of safeguarding children issues
• Knowledge of risk management
• Knowledge of current issues and how they impact on professional practice

Skills and Knowledge

• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
• Able to maintain electronic patient records Use Microsoft Word and excel for letter and report writing
• Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
• Manage others and contribute to the management of the team
• Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind and hard working
• Supervise others in the team as delegated by the team leader
• Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
• Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
• HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

£44,485 to £52,521 a year per annum incl. HCAS