Specialist Community Public Health Nurse 5-19 | Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust; Hitchin; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in England seeks a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse to deliver the Healthy Child Programme to children and families. The role includes leading a multidisciplinary team and engaging with local communities to enhance public health. Ideal candidates should demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills, and be prepared to uphold safeguarding standards. This position offers extensive training opportunities and benefits within the NHS framework.

Benefits

Access to training opportunities

Generous contributory pension

27 days holiday

NHS Discounts

Qualifications

• Full valid driving license and access to a car for business purposes.
• Enhanced child and adult DBS certificate required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise the Public Health Nursing 5-19 team.
• Deliver universal, targeted, and specialist care.
• Assess and triage healthcare needs of children.

Skills

Confident independent practitioner

Skilled team player

Excellent communication skills

Experience of electronic record keeping

Job description

Overview

Are you a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN)? School Nursing Team in North Herts and Stevenage are looking to recruit a full time SCPHN. This role enables you to fulfill your Public Health responsibilities by delivering the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme (HCP) and collaborating with SCPHNs, Team Leaders and Clinical Leads across Hertfordshire to continually improve the quality of service offered to children and young people. Hertfordshire Community Trust (HCT) is committed to developing the skills of all nurses and offers leadership courses as well as restorative and safeguarding supervision. This post is also suitable for newly qualified SCPHN School Nurse students.

To lead and supervise members of the Public Health Nursing 5-19 team to deliver universal, targeted and specialist care to children and young people, following the Healthy Child and Young People Public Health Nursing Programme.

The post holder will work with children, young people and families within the school and community setting or within the home environment, as deemed necessary, to provide and promote the healthcare needs of children and young people in Hertfordshire to help them reach their full potential.

The post holder will play an integral part in safeguarding children and young people, providing health assessments for Children Looked After and Safeguarded children, following appropriate safeguarding processes. The post holder will also cover duties, assess, triage, plan, and implement healthcare as appropriate in accordance with Trust Guidelines and the Healthy Child Programme.

Demonstrate an evidence-based approach to practice to continue delivering and developing a high standard of service, whilst supporting the Team Lead and Clinical Quality Lead. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, attending local liaison meetings, undertaking health promotion/education activities, and completing appraisals and one-to-ones.

Promote effective teamwork, share knowledge and information, encourage a supportive environment, and model equality, diversity and inclusivity to promote good working practice and outcomes.

We invite you to consider joining Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, a great place to work with many benefits offered to staff.

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision: Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities. Our staff are proud to be innovative, caring and agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision. We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages.

Informal visits are welcome to meet наш friendly team. The vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if there is high interest, so please apply as soon as possible - Apply now.

You’ve made a great decision to apply to join HCT—we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.

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Service Information

• Is committed to delivering a high quality service to children, young people and families as a 0-19 service.
• Works with individual children and young people as well as developing local public health plans with schools and the wider community.
• Is an innovative service that embraces the use of technology.
• Delivers the Healthy Child Programme using an electronic health needs assessment process to identify individuals requiring early intervention pathways.
• Uses Chat Health text messaging service for 11-19 year olds and a text messaging service for parents/carers.
• Has implemented two health websites for use by children, young people, families & professionals.
• Has developed and promoted the use of social media to connect with children, young people and their families.

The successful candidate will

• Be a confident, independent practitioner.
• Be a skilled team player and able to lead a skills-mix team.
• Have excellent communication skills to use with a variety of clients, professionals & staff.
• Have experience of electronic record keeping (this would be an advantage, although full training will be given).
• Have a full valid driving license and access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
• Require an enhanced child and adult DBS certificate.

In return we can offer you

• Access to a wide range of training opportunities including leadership development.
• Restorative, management and safeguarding supervision.
• Generous contributory pension.
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service).
• Special Leave for family and personal reasons.
• NHS Car Lease Scheme.
• Eye Care Vouchers.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• NHS Discounts.
• Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust is an innovative, caring and agile organisation.

Our service invites applicants from all backgrounds and ages. Vaccination is encouraged where possible, as this remains a line of defence against COVID-19.

Closing date: This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Oct 2025.