Staff Nurse

HCRG Care Group; Marshfield; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Discounts & cashback via My Reward Hub

Access to earned pay before payday

Wellbeing support and employee assist

Learning and development opportunities

Quality improvement initiatives

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Staff Nurse to join the School Aged Health Service in Wiltshire. You will assess health needs, promote wellbeing, and work with school nurses and partners to improve outcomes for local families.

You will deliver health education, safeguarding, and quality care in line with NMC guidelines, while supporting students and contributing to service development.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Midwife with current NMC registration.
• Evidence of post-registration education.
• Practice Assessor/Supervisor qualification or willingness to undertake.
• Post-registration experience.
• Experience of working independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Understanding of the public health role of School Nursing.
• Ability to maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical records.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• IT literate and able to use electronic patient records.
• Ability to make sound clinical judgments and decisions.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Full driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

Responsibilities

• Assess health needs of children and young people in community settings.
• Promote wellbeing and health education in collaboration with schools.
• Safeguarding and multi-agency working with partner organisations.
• Deliver quality care and support student nurses through supervision and assessment.

Skills

NMC registration

Post-registration education

Practice Assessor/Supervisor

Public health School Nursing

Clinical records keeping

Verbal and written communication

IT literate

Clinical judgement

Organisational skills

Driving licence & vehicle access

Job description

Main duties of the job

Are you a Registered Nurse or Midwife looking to make a lasting difference to the health and wellbeing of children and young people? We're looking for a Staff Nurse to join our School Aged Health Service in Wiltshire, working as part of a skilled public health team that supports children, young people and families across the community. This opportunity allows you to develop public health nursing experience while reducing health inequalities, safeguarding vulnerable children, and improving outcomes for local families. You will play a key role in assessing health needs, supporting vulnerable children, and promoting healthy lifestyles. The position involves working with school nurses and other agencies to identify health needs, promote wellbeing, and contribute to better community outcomes. Responsibilities include health assessments, health promotion, safeguarding vulnerable children, and delivering quality care in accordance with NMC guidelines.

About us

Established in 2006, HCRG Care Group is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. We work with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. Our services span adult and children community health, primary care including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, MSK services, adult social care, and wellbeing services. We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a diverse range of people. As a Disability Confident Committed company, we strive to provide inclusive facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions.

Benefits

• Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
• Access to My Reward Hub, providing discounts and cashback from high street retailers
• Access to earned pay before payday
• Wellbeing support and employee assistance services
• Learning and development opportunities through our Learning Enterprise
• Opportunities to influence and improve services through innovation and quality improvement initiatives

Main Responsibilities

You’ll work as part of the School Aged Health Service, providing support to children, young people and their families within community settings. Working alongside School Nurses and wider partners, you’ll help identify health needs, promote wellbeing and contribute to improving outcomes for local communities.

Assessment and Public Health

You’ll assess children’s health and development, identifying any concerns or deviations from expected development whilst ensuring safeguarding principles remain at the centre of your practice. Through health promotion activities, drop-in sessions and health education programmes, you’ll encourage healthier lifestyles and improve awareness of available services and support.

Safeguarding and Multi‑Agency Working

A key part of the role will involve supporting vulnerable children and young people through collaborative working with schools, families and partner agencies. You’ll contribute to safeguarding processes, attend relevant meetings and support the planning and delivery of interventions under the guidance of a School Nurse.

Delivering Quality Care

You’ll support children and young people with chronic and complex health needs, maintain accurate clinical records and work in accordance with the NMC Code. You’ll also contribute to the development of the service and support student nurses through supervision and assessment activities.

Person Specification

Essential

• Registered Nurse or Midwife with current NMC registration
• Evidence of post‑registration education
• Practice Assessor/Supervisor qualification or willingness to undertake
• Post‑registration experience
• Experience of working independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Understanding of the public health role of School Nursing
• Ability to maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical records
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• IT literate
• Ability to make sound clinical judgements and decisions
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Full driving licence
• Access to a vehicle for work purposes

Desirable

• Experience of inter‑agency and partnership working
• Experience of working with children and young people in a community setting
• Knowledge of child protection procedures
• Experience within public health services
• Experience within a School Nursing team
• Experience facilitating group sessions
• Experience delivering one‑to‑one emotional health interventions

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.