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 07776244153lisa.norwood@cornwall.gov.uk / Joanne Godfrey 07919308771 joanne.godfrey@cornwall.gov.uk
Health Visiting: Karen Wills 07768707515karen.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 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
