Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Student

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS healthcare provider is offering a full-time opportunity for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing training in London. As a qualified nurse, you will lead health initiatives and manage a team while ensuring children's well-being through various assessments. This role includes direct collaboration with schools and local services, aiming to support children and families effectively.

Qualifications

• Qualified nurse.
• Ability to lead delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.
• Experience in health assessments and safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of the Healthy Child Programme for ages 5–19.
• Delegate and supervise the skill mix team.
• Conduct health assessments for safeguarding and work with local children's agencies.

Job description

Overview

If you are a qualified nurse, you are invited to apply for the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - School Nurse training in the academic year 2025/26. This will be offered as a full-time opportunity only. A full-time course comprises 52 weeks of study, of which 45 weeks are spent in education and clinical practice within the Trust. You will study at the University of Greenwich, commencing in January 2025. The salary, while training, will be to a maximum of point 3 on the Agenda for Change Band 5 scale as directed by Health Education England.

Responsibilities

Main duties of the job include leading the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme for ages 5–19, delegating to and supervising the work of the skill mix team, and working in partnership with local service providers to develop and support services to children and families within schools and the local community. Daily responsibilities include health assessments for safeguarding (CSE), mental health and safeguarding, and working with a range of local children’s agencies and professionals.

About Oxleas

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

Values

• We\'re Kind
• We\'re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care