School Nurse SCPHN Student - Waltham Forest 0-19 Services
The closing date is 10 September 2025
Job summary
Are you a community health nurse looking to further your knowledge and skills?
Are you experienced in working within the 0-19 services?
Do you hold a 2:2-degree qualification or above?
As a registered nurse or midwife there has never been a better time to join the GP Care Group. Come and join our friendly, welcoming, and inclusive 0-19 team and share our ambition to make a fundamental difference in improving the health and wellbeing of children and their families in Waltham Forest.
We are looking for nurses who have:
Effective communication skills to support and empower families and young people, and to work alongside partner agencies.
A flexible and reliable team player with the ability to prioritise and manage a busy workload and an approach suited to community working.
Current nursing or midwifery registration or a nursing or midwifery qualification
At least 1 years post registration experience and the ability to travel extensively across Waltham Forest and the surrounding areas to meet both the educational and clinical requirements of the course.
As this role is community based, it is desirable to be a car owner and driver.
On successful completion of the course, the post holder will be eligible to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) and you will be able to apply for band 6 SCPHN roles.
Main duties of the job
School Nurses lead in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (5-19) delegating to and supervising the work of the skill mix team, while also working in partnership with local service providers to develop and support services to children and families within the local community.
This is a development role where the sponsored SCPHN student will be building on existing knowledge, skills, and competencies to achieve a higher level of practice resulting in an academic qualification as well as acquiring clinical skills required to practice as a NMC registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse on a defined pathway
About us
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/
The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
Click here to know more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership- https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
Innovation and support for primary care
Being a great place to work
Integrating primary and community care
Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
Influencing improvements in health outcomes
Details
Date posted
01 September 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£38,511 a year inclusive of HCAS
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
E0136-25-0077
Job locations
Chingford Health Centre
109 York Road
London
E4 8LF
Employer details
Employer name
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group
Address
Chingford Health Centre
109 York Road
London
E4 8LF
Employer's website
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