Specialist School Nurse

NHS Lothian; Scotland; Sur place; GBP 43 000 - 53 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

NHS Lothian in West Lothian is recruiting a Specialist School Nurse to lead the school nursing team and deliver the School Nursing Pathway for ages 5-19. The post focuses on implementing national policy locally, ensuring high quality, safe care, and coordinated support for children and young people within educational and community settings.

You will line-manage a designated team, coordinate activities, and drive improvements through strong leadership, collaboration with education partners, and a

Qualifications

• Qualified nurse with registration (RGN/RN) and current practising status.
• Experience in school nursing or public health is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team and collaborate across education and community settings.

Responsabilités

• Lead the designated school nursing team to deliver the School Nursing Pathway.
• Interpret and implement national policy locally within education and community settings to ensure quality and consistency of care.
• Support and develop staff, ensuring needs of 5–19 population and families are met across NHS Lothian.

Description du poste

Job reference: 261652
Salary: Band 6 (£43,231 - £52,679)
Job closing date: 20/10/2026
Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery
Location: West Lothian
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 36
Job posted date: 09/10/2026
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lothian
Department: Community Nursing

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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

The postholder will play a lead role in the provision of the refocused role for school nursing in Scotland with a focus on key areas of intervention and support for school age children and young people.

The postholder will be pivotal to interpreting and implementing service agenda’s and embed national policy direction locally within the designated educational and community settings they are responsible for; ensuring quality of care and consistency in the delivery of services across NHS Lothian.

The post holder will have day to day management responsibility for a designated school nursing team and will lead co-ordinate and supervise the school nursing team in the delivery of the School Nursing Pathway ensuring that the needs of the 5-19 school age population and their families are met.

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We are recruiting to the post of 261652

NHS Lothian is excited to be recruiting to a (Specialist School Nurse) at (West Lothian).

We are looking for an inspirational leader who is caring, compassionate and motivated to join our strong, empowered and highly skilled nursing family.

Our Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan sets out our Vision, Ambitions and Values that enable excellent care for our patients and service users. It also demonstrates what you can expect from our organisation and what you can aspire to in your own career development. A collaborative, person focused approach is at the very centre of everything we aspire to achieve, and necessary to deliver care that is high quality, compassionate, safe and effective. We continue to work towards having a diverse and inclusive culture for people who work for us and use our services. We want everyone to realise their full potential and make a positive contribution. We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and communities. We are committed to supporting the development of a nursing and midwifery workforce that is made up of diverse skills and experiences. We are interested in your passion for developing with us as a leader as well as demonstrating alignment with the values and ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. We are committed to providing the strong foundations of clinical education with our Clinical Education and Training team, our education co-ordinators, robust induction programmes and preceptorship as well as working with you to build on your leadership strengths.

Recruitment process – We use a values and competency-based recruitment process that is linked to the ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. Within NHS Lothian, Nursing and Midwifery interviews are linked to our Nursing & Midwifery Strategic Plan. We aim to offer an equitable experience and are sharing interview questions in advance. A selection of the interview questions can be found on our Careers site.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.