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Student Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor or School Nurse)

Cornwall Council

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

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GBP 25,000 - 30,000

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Job summary

Cornwall Council is offering a unique opportunity for a Student Specialist Community Public Health Nurse role, focusing on health visiting or school nursing. This full-time training position will start in September 2025, providing a pathway to become a registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, with support from experienced mentors and a structured learning environment.

Benefits

Supportive supervision framework

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

Must be a qualified NMC registered nurse or midwife.
Post qualification experience working with children and families.
Interest in public health needs.

Responsibilities

Support children, young people, and families in Cornwall.
Participate in a fully funded training programme.
Work collaboratively with practice teachers and supervisors.

Skills

Emotional intelligence

Innovation

Adaptability

Education

Classified honours degree at 2:2 or above in nursing or midwifery

Student Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor or School Nurse)

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Job Description

Are you ready for an amazing opportunity? Do you want to make a difference to children, young people and families in Cornwall. We are very excited to announce that we have Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Student Health Visitor or School Nurse training posts available for application starting in September 2025. This is a fantastic opportunity for a fully funded training programme to qualify as a registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor or School Nurse). Open to all qualified Nurses and Midwives registered with the NMC. We provide supportive placements with allocated practice teachers and supervisors to support your learning journey.

The Service & Team

We deliver our health visiting and school nursing service across 6 Localities within the beautiful County of Cornwall. We work from the border with Devon covering areas such as Bude, Launceston, Liskeard down as far as Helston and Penzance.

Most teams are based together with our Early Help and Social Care colleagues, and we all record on the same electronic record which really helps communication and coordination. We provide an evidence based, family centre public health service, which focuses on identifying health needs and vulnerability within the family and community.

This is a great opportunity to join our innovative and collaborative service to meet the needs of our local communities and to ensure there are improved outcomes for all our children and young people in the beautiful county of Cornwall and IOS.

The course embraces a family/child/workplace-centred public health role with individuals, families, and populations, and focuses on improving health and tackling health inequalities. The approach requires you to work within a dynamic socio-cultural and service provision context across traditional boundaries, to network and develop services in partnership with service users, other professionals, and the voluntary sector. You'll learn to lead, assess, work collaboratively, evaluate public health provision, and accept responsibility and accountability for the safe, effective, and efficient management of that provision.

Public Health (Specialist Community Public Health Nursing) - Postgraduate Diploma - UWE Bristol: Courses

The Role

This is a full-time fixed term post with an Agenda for Change band 5 salary. Please note that this is a training contract starting the beginning of September 2025. For internal candidates, this is a secondment post for one year and for external candidates, you will be given a fixed term contract by Cornwall Council to undertake a one-year full-time course to complete the Post Graduate Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) in Health Visiting or School Nursing at University West of England (UWE). Please note that this will involve travel to UWE in Bristol and some overnight stays. The course combines taught modules at UWE and clinical placements in Cornwall. Successful completion of the course will lead to registration on Part 3 of the NMC register, an NMC recordable qualification so you will be eligible to apply for a SCPHN HV/SN vacancy post within Cornwall Council. Seconded Students will return to their previous role if there are no vacancies or unsuccessful at interview.

If you need more information, please don’t hesitate to contact

School Nursing: Lisa Norwood 07776244153 lisa.norwood@cornwall.gov.uk / Joanne Godfrey 07919308771 joanne.godfrey@cornwall.gov.uk

Health Visiting: Karen Wills 07768707515 karen.wills@cornwall.gov.uk / Kayleigh Orchard 07771813808 kayleigh.orchard@cornwall.gov.uk

This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

A qualified NMC registered children/adult/learning disability/mental health nurse or midwife with post qualification experience working with children and families and a keen interest in the wider determinants of health to tackle public health needs
A reflective and emotionally intelligent practitioner who makes good use of supervision and support who has a real interest in addressing the health needs of children, young people and their families
Someone who is able to address challenging and sensitive issues with families in a clear and supportive way with the ability to be innovative and adaptive to meet the needs of the children, young people and families on our caseloads
Applicants must have a live registration on either the first or second part of the NMC register and be able to demonstrate a classified honours degree at 2:2 or above either in nursing or midwifery or a diploma with evidence of recent academic study preferably at Master’s level as the course is a level 7 academic programme

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What You’ll Get In Return

We offer a supportive supervision framework where you will be supported with your clinical caseload management, safeguarding children supervision and clinical supervision.

We have an excellent career pathway within our service. We are keen to support and develop our own staff wishing to develop over the pathway

Additional Information

The full role profile is attached here

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

About Us

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Find out more about working and volunteering for us .

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be foundhere - flexible working options .

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, youngpeopleand adults at risk.It’sa vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.

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