Specialist Community Public Health Nurse/ School Nurse (Band 6) - School Nurse Band 6 - Whittin[...]

Whittington Health; London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Whittington Health is seeking a qualified Specialist Community Public Health Nurse for a role focused on school health in London. The position involves delivering care, engaging with families, and supporting school staff in promoting health among children. Candidates should possess the SCPHN qualification and demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

IPhone and 4G laptop provided

Qualifications

• Applicants must hold a Specialist Community Public Health Qualification in School Nursing.
• Experience working with children and families is essential.
• Must demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality nursing care within schools.
• Manage a defined caseload of secondary schools.
• Support junior staff in managing primary school health needs.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Communication Skills

Organisational Skills

Child and Family Public Health Knowledge

Education

Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN)

RSCN or RN (Child Branch) or Equivalent

Post Registration Training

Tools

Sys1

RIO

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse/ School Nurse

Band 6

Main area School Nurse Band 6 Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: term time only Hours

• Full time
• Term time hours

37.5 hours per week (0.84 WTE) Job ref 220-WHT-3053-A

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Winston House Town London Salary £42,939 - £50,697 pro rata per annum including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 19/06/2025 23:59

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Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Job overview

School Nurse - Band 6- SCPHN

TERM TIME ONLY

Location : Barnet

Whittington NHS Trust tri-borough Barnet are looking to recruit a dynamic qualified Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (SCPHN) with strong public health focus who are fully committed to delivering and improving the health and well-being of our diverse school aged children.

Main duties of the job

As a highly motivated and dynamic school nurse, you will play a leading role in shaping our services as we are committed in meeting the health needs of children and young people through the delivery of the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme. The school nurse will deliver high quality evidence based skilled nursing care within the schools of Barnet. Whittington NHS Trust has recently taken over Barnet CYP services and we have set about redesigning our school nursing service to be accessible and visible in schools through drop in clinics. We require a school nurse who is passionate about achieving outcomes for children, young people and families.

You will be responsible for a defined caseload of secondary schools, and supporting junior staff with the management of primary schools. This will involve working in collaboration with parents/carers, education and other multi agency professionals.

We offer flexible working arrangements, IPhone and a 4G laptop.

Applicants must hold a Specialist Community Public Health Qualification in School Nursing. This is a definite requirement for the position and applicants who apply without the qualification will NOT be shortlisted.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Demonstrate leadership skills and understanding of professional responsibilities within the team
• Be a lead for supporting the education of students and junior staff
• In depth knowledge of child and family public health practice and be able to embed across the service
• A named nurse to a high school and cluster of primary schools
• To write clear concise treatment plans with reviews carried out within expected timeframes.
• To be able to identify health needs and signpost appropriately.
• To keep health at the heart of education
• To deliver training sessions to other professionals on relevant health or medical issues
• Support schools and children and young people to manage their own health conditions independently

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• RSCN or RN (Child Branch) or Equivalent
• Specialist Community Public Health School Nursing (SCPHN) qualification
• Evidence of Post Registration Training and Development

Skills & Abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing in an effective way with people from a variety of backgrounds and different ages
• To demonstrate the ability to reflect on clinical practice to enhance professional/personal development
• Ability to prioritise and effectively manage own workload
• Basic Information Technology Skills use of Sys1, RIO and teams
• Good organisational Skills
• Application of research/evidence base to good practice
• Ability to manage difficult situations and conflict resolution

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience working with children and families
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of working together in a team
• Able to work autonomously and without supervision
• Able to demonstrate an awareness and understanding of current issues and recent developments in school health
• Able to demonstrate an awareness and understanding of good practice in safeguarding and child protection
• Able to demonstrate an awareness and understanding of National and Government issues influencing the provision of health care to all children
• Able to demonstrate an awareness and understanding of confidentiality and record keeping
• Experience nursing in a diverse inner city community

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Motivated to teach and learn
• Approachable, flexible, adaptable and supportive

Others

• Ability to take majority of leave in the Summer holidays

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form –

• Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
• Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes –

• Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
• If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunatelythis means you have not been successfullyshortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
• Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
• Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information –

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you areeligible under theUKVI points based system .
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Shirley Phillips Job title School Health Manager - Barnet Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07467 260535

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