Student Specialist (Health Visitor or School Nurse)

NHS; Truro; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated health service in Cornwall as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, focusing on improving health outcomes for children and families. This full-time training opportunity offers support and guidance through a fixed-term contract, leading to a meaningful career in public health nursing.

Qualifications

• Registered NMC nurse or midwife with post-qualification experience.
• Interest in public health and health inequalities.
• Ability to manage sensitive discussions with families.

Responsibilities

• Provide health visiting and school nursing services across six localities in Cornwall.
• Use evidence-based approaches to identify health needs in the community.
• Complete a training course leading to SCPHN registration.

Skills

Emotional Intelligence

Adaptability

Reflection

Education

Registered Nurse or Midwife

Honours Degree at 2:2 or above

Masters Level Study

Job description

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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

Details Date posted

06 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

1 years

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

F0021-25-0005

Job locations

New County Hall

Treyew Road

Truro

Cornwall

TR1 3AY

Job description Job responsibilities

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 dont hesitate to contact

School Nursing: Lisa Norwood [e-mail] / Joanne Godfrey 07919308771 [e-mail]

Health Visiting: Karen Wills [e-mail] / Kayleigh Orchard 07771813808 [e-mail]

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

What youll 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 Masters level as the course is a level 7 academic programme

Job description Job responsibilities

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 dont hesitate to contact

School Nursing: Lisa Norwood [e-mail] / Joanne Godfrey 07919308771 [e-mail]

Health Visiting: Karen Wills [e-mail] / Kayleigh Orchard 07771813808 [e-mail]

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

What youll 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 Masters level as the course is a level 7 academic programme

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Please refer to attached role profile

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Please refer to attached role profile

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.

Employer details Employer name

Cornwall Council

Address

New County Hall

Treyew Road

Truro

Cornwall

TR1 3AY

Employer's website

https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Cornwall Council

Address

New County Hall

Treyew Road

Truro

Cornwall

TR1 3AY

Employer's website

https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)