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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
11 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Recent school nursing experience
- Experience
Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
- Experience
Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and inter-agency working
- Experience
Experience of organising and managing own workload
- Experience
Experience of assessing, planning and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
- Experience
Experience in providing practice based learning support to others
- Experience
Experience of evidence based care
- Experience
Experience of supervising students
- Essential and Desirable
Registered Nurse/Midwife (current)
- Essential and Desirable
Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) School Nursing / Differing in Practice in school nursing / or SCPHN School Nursing student in consolidated practice
- Essential and Desirable
Evidence of continuing post- registration education and training
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Counselling qualification
- Experience
Teaching qualification
- Experience
Mental Health First Aid training
- Essential and Desirable
Practice Assessor course
- Essential and Desirable
PSHE Course
- Essential and Desirable
Community nurse prescribing qualification or prepared to work towards.
Job overview
School Nurse (SCPHN) – BANK
The post holder will be responsible for providing a comprehensive School Nursing service to a defined population that meets the public health needs of local state schools and communities in line with the Healthy Child Programme and local service specifications and in accordance with CLCH Trust values and behaviours. They will contribute to the delivery of Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018), including improving health and life chances for children, young people and families and safeguarding those at risk.
Main duties of the job
- To plan, organize and evaluate an innovative School Nursing service, and where appropriate, delegate to other members of the School Health team to ensure delivery of a quality service to a cluster of high complexity schools
- To participate in service development and health improvement activities.
- To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers, including head teachers, to identify and address health needs for school age children and young people and to ensure seamless delivery of services
- To collaborate with team colleagues in order to deliver the Quality Strategy objectives
- To be visible in schools on a regular basis, as agreed within the partnership agreement
- To deliver the role specific elements of the Universal Healthy Child Programme 5-19 (DH 2009
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicants are expected to present clear and relevant evidence of the competencies and responsibilities detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, together with a demonstrated commitment to the Trust’s values of Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Bank School Nurse - SW with Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust in London, England. It is listed as a School nurse role. The advertised salary is £23.50. The contract type is Bank. The application deadline is 30 Sep 2026.
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