Job summary
Looking for a Role Where You Can Lead and Inspire?
Are you ready to transform lives and create brighter futures for children and young people? As a School Nurse, you'll lead the charge in delivering life-changing health initiatives and early interventions that truly make a difference.
Imagine a role where every day brings new opportunities to inspire healthier lifestyles, support emotional wellbeing, and empower young people to reach their full potential.
You'll be at the heart of the Healthy Child Programme, working with a skilled and passionate team to deliver dynamic health assessments, creative public health initiatives, and impactful interventions across schools and communities in our Rugby, Stratford or Nuneaton teams.
This isn't just a job - it's a calling. Safeguarding will be a cornerstone of your work, as you collaborate with multi-agency teams to ensure every child and family feels supported. Your ability to reflect, evaluate, and analyse will drive innovative, evidence-based solutions that leave a lasting mark.
As a leader and mentor, you'll guide and inspire colleagues, providing expert advice, supervision, and support. Together, you'll shape a forward-thinking, compassionate service that's always striving for better outcomes.
Shape the Future, Starting Today! Join Our School Nursing Team!
Main duties of the job
Inspiring Change with a Caring Approach
You're a Registered Nurse with a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN - School Nursing) qualification, ready to take your career to new heights. Your expertise goes beyond exceptional care you're a leader, a mentor, and a driving force for innovation, dedicated to supporting children, young people, and families.
With experience managing caseloads and working with vulnerable groups, you excel at navigating challenges with confidence and compassion. Your talent for risk management, prioritisation, and evidence-based practice ensures that you consistently deliver outstanding results. You thrive on innovation, using data and insight to fuel fresh, forward-thinking approaches.
Collaboration and communication are at the heart of your work, enabling you to connect with multi-disciplinary teams and inspire colleagues. Adaptable and solution-focused, you're energised by dynamic environments and approach change with positivity and determination. Your leadership encourages and empowers others to grow and succeed alongside you.
If you're ready to take on a role where your passion and expertise will shape brighter futures, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
About us
Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Established for over 30 years, Compass is a national charity which works in communities across the UK providing services spanning substance misuse treatment and rehabilitation, early interventions for vulnerable young people, school-aged health programmes and associated prevention as well as treatment and health promotion initiatives.
All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks.
We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce.
We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post.
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits including:
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)
- Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
- Competitive contributory pension scheme
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
- Enhanced sick pay
- Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
- Annual performance/salary review
Help us to make a positive change to the lives of children and young people!
This role is for 30 - 37 hours per week.
Interview date: 7th Jan 2025
Job description
Job responsibilities
Looking for a Role Where You Can Lead and Inspire?
Are you ready to transform lives and create brighter futures for children and young people? As a School Nurse, youll lead the charge in delivering life-changing health initiatives and early interventions that truly make a difference.
Imagine a role where every day brings new opportunities to inspire healthier lifestyles, support emotional wellbeing, and empower young people to reach their full potential.
Youll be at the heart of the Healthy Child Programme, working with a skilled and passionate team to deliver dynamic health assessments, creative public health initiatives, and impactful interventions across schools and communities in our Rugby or Nuneaton teams.
This isnt just a jobits a calling. Safeguarding will be a cornerstone of your work, as you collaborate with multi-agency teams to ensure every child and family feels supported. Your ability to reflect, evaluate, and analyse will drive innovative, evidence-based solutions that leave a lasting mark.
As a leader and mentor, youll guide and inspire colleagues, providing expert advice, supervision, and support. Together, youll shape a forward-thinking, compassionate service thats always striving for better outcomes.
Shape the Future, Starting TodayJoin Our School Nursing Team!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Looking for a Role Where You Can Lead and Inspire?
Are you ready to transform lives and create brighter futures for children and young people? As a School Nurse, youll lead the charge in delivering life-changing health initiatives and early interventions that truly make a difference.
Imagine a role where every day brings new opportunities to inspire healthier lifestyles, support emotional wellbeing, and empower young people to reach their full potential.
Youll be at the heart of the Healthy Child Programme, working with a skilled and passionate team to deliver dynamic health assessments, creative public health initiatives, and impactful interventions across schools and communities in our Rugby or Nuneaton teams.
This isnt just a jobits a calling. Safeguarding will be a cornerstone of your work, as you collaborate with multi-agency teams to ensure every child and family feels supported. Your ability to reflect, evaluate, and analyse will drive innovative, evidence-based solutions that leave a lasting mark.
As a leader and mentor, youll guide and inspire colleagues, providing expert advice, supervision, and support. Together, youll shape a forward-thinking, compassionate service thats always striving for better outcomes.
Shape the Future, Starting TodayJoin Our School Nursing Team!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification (SCPHN - School Nursing)
Experience
Essential
- Previous mentorship/preceptorship experience
- Caseload management responsibilities
Desirable
- Working with vulnerable groups
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Demonstrate leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff.
- Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures.
- Planning workload, time management.
- Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities
- Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets.
- IT skills
- Team player and a dynamic personality.
- Multiagency/disciplinary working
- Excellent communication skills and able to relate to children and young people.
- Innovative practice and ability to influence others
- Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention
- Visionary approach to managing change and transition
- Positive attitude; flexible and adaptable; solution focused; and tenacious
- Be flexible and adaptable to meet business need
- Has a strong degree of personal integrity
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification (SCPHN - School Nursing)
Experience
Essential
- Previous mentorship/preceptorship experience
- Caseload management responsibilities
Desirable
- Working with vulnerable groups
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Demonstrate leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff.
- Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures.
- Planning workload, time management.
- Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities
- Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets.
- IT skills
- Team player and a dynamic personality.
- Multiagency/disciplinary working
- Excellent communication skills and able to relate to children and young people.
- Innovative practice and ability to influence others
- Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention
- Visionary approach to managing change and transition
- Positive attitude; flexible and adaptable; solution focused; and tenacious
- Be flexible and adaptable to meet business need
- Has a strong degree of personal integrity
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
