School Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Service & Team:

This post sits within Education & Community Health, part of the Together for Families directorate. The School Nursing 519 Team delivers the Healthy Child Programme across Cornwall, working in partnership with schools, families, health colleagues and wider multiagency partners to improve health outcomes for children and young people.

You will join an experienced and supportive team committed to evidencebased, familycentred public health practice, early intervention, safeguarding and reducing health inequalities. The service prioritises collaboration, professional development and consistent, highquality care.

The Role:

The role includes supervising and supporting skillmix staff and learners, ensuring safe, highquality and consistent practice. You will contribute to service development, quality assurance, safeguarding decisionmaking and interagency planning, including working with education, CAMHS, social care and other partners.

You will assess, plan, deliver and review public health interventions across your school community, identifying health needs and vulnerabilities at both individual and population level. You will hold accountability for a caseload of children, young people and families, providing specialist assessment and evidencebased care in partnership with other professionals and agencies.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Leading delivery of the Healthy Child Programme in the locality
• Providing specialist public health nursing interventions
• Managing and supervising a team of support staff
• Contributing to safeguarding processes, legal decisionmaking and protection planning
• Supporting service development through audit, data, research and evaluation
• Maintaining accurate records and complying with information governance requirements

This is a public/customerfacing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This post is subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern:

The role is delivered across schools, community settings and family homes, with flexible and agile working arrangements in place where service delivery allows. Independent travel across the locality is required.

What youll need to succeed:

You must:

• Be a qualified School Nurse (SCPHN)
• Hold current NMC registration
• Demonstrate leadership skills, including supervision of skillmix staff
• Show commitment to improving outcomes for children, young people and families
• Have strong assessment, analytical and decisionmaking skills
• Be confident working collaboratively across agencies and systems
• Have current safeguarding knowledge and experience working with vulnerable children
• Hold a full UK driving licence and be able to travel independently

You will be proactive, organised and committed to professional development, with the ability to deliver highquality, evidencebased public health nursing practice

Please note, as this is a position with Cornwall Council, if your application is shortlisted, your details will be securely transferred to Cornwall Council's recruitment system for the purposes of progressing your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Be a qualified School Nurse (SCPHN)
• Hold current NMC registration

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrate leadership skills, including supervision of skillmix staff

Travel Requirements

Essential

• Hold a full UK driving licence and be able to travel independently

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Cornwall Council

Address

New County Hall

Treyew Road

Truro

Cornwall

TR1 3AY

United Kingdom

Employer's website

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