Student School Nurse - SCPHN training

Southend On Sea City Council; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in Southend seeks a Student School Nurse to deliver public health nursing in schools. This role offers the opportunity to train for the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing course, providing support to children and families while collaborating with health professionals. You'll gain real-world experience and mentorship in a vibrant community, preparing for a significant role in public health services.

Benefits

Unlimited support during training

Hands-on training experience

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified Nurse and prepared to study at master's level.
• Experience of working with children in a community setting.
• Ability to apply clinical governance framework to practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide family-centred, evidence-based public health service.
• Undertake health needs assessment for targeted care plans.
• Support health-led drop-in clinics for school-aged pupils.

Skills

Communication skills

Research-based practice

Multi-agency working

Child protection procedures

Leadership skills

Education

First level Registered Nurse

First level degree or equivalent

Academic study at Level 6

Tools

Systm1

ChatHealth

Job description

Overview

Would you like to join a passionate and forward thinking School Nursing Service to deliver high quality public health nursing that promotes and improves health inequalities to school aged children in Southend?

Are you looking for an opportunity to train to become a qualified School Nurse? To achieve this you will need to complete the Specialist Community Public Health (SCPHN) course.

If you are a registered Nurse (any pathway) wanting to work in the community with families and are interested in early intervention and prevention to tackle health inequalities, then we want to give you the opportunity to work within our Children, Young People and Families Public Health service. Work alongside and learn from our skill mix teams, including Health Visitors and School Nurses whilst you complete your SCPHN training and get real hands on training and unlimited support.

Entrants must be a qualified Nurse and be prepared to study at level 7 (masters) for a year long, full time university programme.

Candidates must be available to interview in October 2025. Employment commences from January 2026.

We are offering a fixed term contract for one year to support your learning. Permanent employment following the SCPHN training is subject to vacancies, dependant on passing the course and successfully interviewing for the SCPHN post.

Main duties of the job

You will work within a skill mix team, working closely with partners, such as our Health Visitors, Schools, GPs and Social Care, providing seamless care to the children, young people and families of Southend. You\'ll also have an important role in recognising and protecting vulnerable children as well as using innovative ways to communicate with the Southend population such as ChatHealth and the use of social media.

Successful candidates will work within the School Nursing Service, learning about the delivery of safe, effective and high quality services to school aged children and families, using research based evidence to inform practice with agreed professional standards. The post will require the nurse to travel between schools within Southend.

About us

Southend-on-Sea City Council is a unitary authority based in the heart of the town centre. This diverse and busy town has a great seafront, public parks and leisure activities, competitive house pricing and excellent travel links, accessible via two train lines from Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street. It offers traditional seaside living that makes it a fantastic place to live and work.

Job responsibilities

The student school nurse will learn how to lead in the provision of a family centred, evidence based public health service that promotes and improves health and addresses inequalities to a defined caseload, population or community.

This will be achieved through shadowing experienced staff and participating in the delivery of public health nursing model at a community and universal reach, progressing to learning about the targeted response and specialist response level. The student will work in line with the Local Authorities corporate objectives and will be expected to make a positive contribution to the provision of public health services. The student school nurse is expected to work in line with the Southend City Council values and behaviours delivering excellent care with compassion. This is underpinned by policies, guidance and operating procedures developed from evidence-based research as well as opportunities to update knowledge through our education forums and skills & drills sessions.

A full Job description and Person Specification is attached.

The student school nurse will learn about becoming the key health professional within schools, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and high quality services to school aged children and families, using research based evidence to inform practice within agreed professional standards.

The student school nurse will have opportunities to work in partnership with Social Care and other statutory agencies in assessing and providing quality care to children within a selective caseload whilst supported by experienced colleagues within the school nursing team.

Your key responsibilities will be to undertake health needs assessment to identify individual needs, maintaining a selective caseload for individual targeted care plans.

You will learn about the delivery of health led training programmes including school staff training of anaphylaxis etc.

You will support health led drop-in clinics at senior schools.

You will support the delivery of community based/ school based drop ins for parents of primary aged pupils.

You will support duty cover for the school nursing team including ChatHealth texting service for both children and young people and parents/carers.

To be able to work in an innovative approach utilising ICT and technology to engage young people, for example supporting the delivery of ChatHealth and school nursing communications through Social Media.

For further information please see attached job description.

Person Specification

Additional

• Full UK driving license and access to a car

Experience

• Evidence of research-based practice.
• Demonstrate a professional approach to updating clinical knowledge and practice.
• Awareness of national and local priorities within childrens services
• Knowledge of health promotion relating to children and families.
• Understanding of key priorities for childrens services.
• Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme
• Experience of maintaining accurate, contemporaneous records.
• Experience of producing written reports/statements when required.
• Experience of multi-agency working &
• evidence of innovative Practice
• Recent School Nursing/Community Experience
• Experience of working with Children and Young People
• Experience of working within a community setting.
• Experience of working with child protection procedures.
• Experience of working within a leadership role
• Experience of Chat Health
• Experience of Systm1

Qualifications

• First level Registered Nurse
• First level degree or equivalent.
• To demonstrate the ability to study at level 7.
• Evidence of academic study at Level 6 in the last 5 years.
• Current driving license with access to a car for duration of training period.
• An understanding of the demands of academic work.
• Flexibility in combining theoretical and practical demands of course.
• Experience of working with children in a community setting
• Evidence of utilising evidenced based practice and appraising standards, providing clinical direction and support for staff.
• Ability to apply clinical governance framework to clinical practice. Demonstrate leadership skills and understanding of professional responsibilities within the team.
• Demonstrate ability to facilitate others to develop service provision. Ability to make sound clinical judgments and to work within a team and direct other team members to deliver high quality client care. Demonstrable evidence of professional development.
• Demonstrable experience working with children and young people. Skills in managing own workload, both clinical and academic through effective use of prioritisation.
• An understanding of current political and local drivers for public health, health visiting and school nursing.
• Understanding of, and ability to meet, the physical demands of the role. For example, carrying equipment, climbing stairs, measuring and weighing. These demands can be explored further at interview.
• Proven communication skills with a range of audiences e.g. families, partner agencies, social care, GP\'s.
• Evidence of graduate or post-graduate qualifications.
• Evidence of post registration learning.
• Currently be working in a nursing role or one relevant to public health nursing.
• Experience of inter-agency working.

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.