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Medical Protection Advertisement

Location
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata)
Profession
Nurse (adult and children)
Grade
Band 5
Deadline
24 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
10 Jul 2025

Job overview

HDFT are seeking to recruit  a motivated and passionate registered Nurse to be part of the innovative 0-19  Service  within the HDFT footprint, based within Cumberland.  This post is to work as a Public Health Nurse within the 0-19 team.

We are the largest provider of children’s public health nursing services in the North East of England providing services.

We are dedicated to working towards improved public health outcomes for children and families in the footprint, delivering high quality universal and targeted health visiting and school health services to meet the key improvement priorities for the population.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of children’s community health commissioned services supporting the SCPHN (Health Visitor/School Nurse), and contributing to the delivery of high quality services for children young people, parents, carers and families working within the framework of the Healthy Child Programme and Best Start In Life priorities.  The post holder will be pro-active in delivering the national and Public Health agendas in response to identified health and social need, working in partnership with other agencies and meet agreed standards, objectives and statutory requirements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Excellent communication skills and a passion for public health are essential, alongside good organisational skills, flexibility to meet the needs of the service and ability to travel independently to meet service delivery as required.

For more information please see the job description attached.