Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nursing

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust; Leicester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Le Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust recherche un infirmier spécialiste en santé publique pour son équipe de santé scolaire à Leicester. Ce poste de Band 6 implique de travailler avec des enfants et des jeunes, et nécessite une évaluation des besoins de santé, des conseils cliniques et un engagement envers le bien-être communautaire. Les candidats doivent avoir une solide formation en nursing et un enregistrement NMC, avec des qualités de leadership et d'empathie.

Benefits

Opportunités de développement professionnel

Travail flexible

Qualifications

• Doit être inscrit(e) auprès de la NMC en branche de soins.
• Doit avoir un enregistrement en tant qu'infirmier en santé publique scolaire.
• Capacité à travailler dans des environnements émotionnellement complexes.

Responsibilities

• Évaluer les besoins de santé des individus et des communautés.
• Fournir des conseils cliniques et une gestion en soins de santé.
• Préparer et mettre en œuvre des plans de soins appropriés.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Empathy

Assessment Skills

Flexibility

Education

NMC Registration

SCPHN School Nursing Registration

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22.06.2025

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06.08.2025

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Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Band 6 - School Nursing

Exciting opportunities have arisen to join our Leicester City Healthy Together School Nursing Team as a Band 6 Specialist Community Public Health Nurse working with children and young people aged 5-19 within our 0-19 service.

We are seeking to employ the very best talent to help us deliver the Healthy Child Programme and our ambitious vision. We would love to meet you if you are an enthusiastic and self-motivated Public Health Nurse.

Our teams are busy, high achieving and dynamic consisting of committed and skilled people who want to deliver the best possible care for children and their families. School nursing offers a range of services to meet the varying needs of the local population, which includes our well-developed digital offer.

You must have a NMC registration in any branch of nursing and a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) School Nursing registration. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a warm, respectful, caring, and compassionate approach to delivering a flexible and responsive service for our diverse and continually evolving health needs of our population.

Please see job description and person specification for full details. Details of qualifications and experience need to be clearly evidenced within your application form.

Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

• To contribute to care, quality, performance and clinical activity by providing professional nursing leadership and guidance, clinical advice and management in relation to the key dimensions of health care quality.
• To holistically assess the health and social needs of individuals, groups, and communities in detail, to determine an appropriate plan of care and evaluate outcomes of health-based interventions.
• Recognise indicators of abuse in children and vulnerable adults and initiate safeguarding measures in accordance with recognised policies and procedures of the Trust and Leicestershire and Rutland safeguarding children partnership.
• To search for and identify evolving health needs and situations hazardous to health at both individual and community level and to act as a resource to promote positive health and wellbeing.
• To demonstrate the ability to transfer previous professional knowledge and skills of Public Health Nursing; developing the ability to work effectively with sound judgement when dealing with complex emotional situations, family dynamics and difficult environments
• Have the ability to prioritise workload and demonstrate flexibility in response to urgent needs and organising day to day work at an individual and team level.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.