# School Nurse - Specialist Community Public Health Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/school-nurse-specialist-community-public-health-nurse/2c318cf3-0d00-47ea-9d1f-d0b1cac58fcb - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/school-nurse-specialist-community-public-health-nurse/2c318cf3-0d00-47ea-9d1f-d0b1cac58fcb.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** HMP Bronzefield - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** School nurse - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (30 hours per week can be considered) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-25T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-09T09:15:49.748Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Newport_Pagnell/Central_North_West_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/School_Nurse_Specialist_community_Public_Health_Nurse/School_Nurse_Specialist_community_Public_Health_Nurse-v8344338 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8344338?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a SCPHN School Nurse who is highly motivated with excellent team working and communication skills? If so then we would love you to come and join us! We are currently expanding our School Nursing Service as part of our model of delivery and are recruiting to School Nurse posts. Our model uses 2 streams and incorporates the development of ways of working to meet the needs of our diverse and growing population. We would also like to hear from you if you are SCPHN School Nurse Student due to qualify. We actively encourage any applicants to come and meet the management team and 0-19 colleagues. This is a year-round post working a minimum 30 hours per week between 9am-5pm. Previous applicants within the last 3 months need Not apply. ### Main duties of the job The role promotes the health, wellbeing and development of children and young people through universal, targeted and specialist interventions, ensuring services are accessible, confidential, inclusive and centred on the voice of the child. The post holder assesses population, community, family and individual health needs, identifying risks, protective factors and health inequalities. The role includes undertaking holistic assessments, developing and evaluating evidence-based plans of care, providing health promotion and early intervention, supporting priorities such as emotional wellbeing, healthy lifestyles, resilience, relationships, risk reduction and preparation for adulthood. The School Nurse contributes to safeguarding through risk assessment, professional curiosity, information sharing, multi-agency working and escalation of concerns, ensuring the lived experience and voice of children and young people are represented. The post holder provides clinical leadership within the skill-mix team, maintaining accountability for assessment, delegation, decision-making and quality of care. Responsibilities include maintaining accurate records, using digital systems, contributing to clinical governance, audit, service evaluation and quality improvement, and supporting student learning. The role requires effective partnership working to improve outcomes, promote equitable access and ensure children and young people receive coordinated, high-quality care and support. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities See attached main job description and person specifications for full details of job and responsibilities. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Must be able to work all year around, across a range of settings according to service requirements. - Able to work flexibly to meet service need, including occasional work outside normal hours. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with families and children/ young people to improve health outcomes through the delivery of the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme. - Evidence of caseload management and organisational skills - Ability to work independently and within a team. - Experience of multi-agency working. - Ability to manage complex and distressing situations / cases **Desirable** - Experience of supervising or developing staff and learners. ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Demonstrates professional curiosity, respectful challenge, reflective practice and sound professional boundaries - Builds credible, inclusive and trusting relationships with children, young people, families, colleagues and partner agencies. - Able to work autonomously, prioritise competing demands and remain effective in unpredictable or emotionally challenging situations - Committed to rights-based, culturally responsive and anti-discriminatory practice. - Positive attitude, with a solution focused outlook - Innovative and enthusiastic with a commitment to self-development and to share experience with others to influence practice ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Knowledge of safeguarding children, local and national policy, including information sharing, consent, confidentiality and professional accountability. - Confident in managing change and demonstrate excellent leadership skills - Excellent communication skills and the ability to adapt to a variety of situations - Competent in use of IT and associated programmes eg. Microsoft Teams, Systmone, Microsoft Office - Excellent record keeping skills/maintaining accurate electronic clinical records. ### Education & Qualifications **Essential** - Registered nurse or midwife with current NMC registration - Current NMC registration as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) **Desirable** - Qualification or recognised preparation for practice supervision and/or assessment - Evidence of continuing professional development ## Documents - [cnwl values (pdf, 182.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1162) - [cnwl staff charter (pdf, 684.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2868) - [cnwl staff networks (pdf, 320.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1160) - [cnwl reward and wellbeing handbook 2020 (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1773) - [cnwl culture scarf behaviour framework (pdf, 710.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2869) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 391.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10668913) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.