# 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/d2deb4b1-ab7a-46ec-8d94-6af39eeb6fa6 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/school-nurse-specialist-community-public-health-nurse/d2deb4b1-ab7a-46ec-8d94-6af39eeb6fa6.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum (pro rata if P/T) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (30 hours per week can be considered) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-18T13:12:29.628Z - **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-v8079169 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8079169?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a SCPHN School Nurse (or due to qualify soon) 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 implementation of a new model of delivery and are recruiting to a School Nurse post.  Our new model incorporates the development of new ways of working to meet the needs of our diverse and growing population. Please contact us for a discussion about our plans and what we can offer each other. 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 Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing patients and families with a positive experience. - Maintain a family-centred public health approach as a framework for identifying and delivering health care interventions and key public health messages. - Be pro-active in multi-agency networking and collaboration to improve health outcomes for children, young people and their families. - Reflect a service based on reducing health inequalities. - Offer School Nurse expertise to clients within a community setting, acting as an advocate for the school age child. - Undertake child / family assessments and agree programme of child health screening and health promotion activity. - Carry out specific health and developmental screening where identified, or delegate responsibility where appropriate to other team members. - Responsibility / accountability for a  caseload whilst overseeing and supporting other  staff members. - Delegation of workload from caseload where appropriate, whilst retaining oversight of cases and agreed identified actions. - Work as an autonomous practitioner taking responsibility for care given to children, young people and families but also work as team members. - Support and develop skill mixed staff within an integrated team. - Prioritise workload to ensure all tasks are actioned in a timely fashion according to level of need. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Undertake complex holistic health needs assessments of children and young people in a wide range of environments and across a broad population spectrum. Interpret, analyse and collate complex information, liaising with children, young people and families and other services/agencies as appropriate. - To inform and implement a plan of care using evidence-based criterion to rationalise professional decisions and actions. Monitor progress and adapt plans to maximize health benefits for clients. - Provide skilled, evidence-based nursing care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures. - Help others e.g. children, young people, parents and carers to identify their own level of knowledge and skill and offer support, information and advice to enable them to access services and adopt healthy lifestyles. - Using excellent communication skills, communicate effectively with children young people, parents / carers and other professionals. - Maintain accurate and comprehensive record keeping in line with NMC guidance and Trust policy. - Have knowledge of Information Sharing and Assessment protocols and ability to identify and discern relevance of information to be shared to promote the safety of children. - If a non-medical prescriber, diagnosis of clinical need to include patient history, clinical assessment, including physical examination where appropriate. Please refer to full job description. ## Job Details Are you a SCPHN School Nurse (or due to qualify soon) 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 implementation of a new model of delivery and are recruiting to a School Nurse post. Our new model incorporates the development of new ways of working to meet the needs of our diverse and growing population. Please contact us for a discussion about our plans and what we can offer each other. 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. ## Job Description Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing patients and families with a positive experience. Maintain a family-centred public health approach as a framework for identifying and delivering health care interventions and key public health messages. Be pro-active in multi-agency networking and collaboration to improve health outcomes for children, young people and their families. Reflect a service based on reducing health inequalities. Offer School Nurse expertise to clients within a community setting, acting as an advocate for the school age child. Undertake child / family assessments and agree programme of child health screening and health promotion activity. Carry out specific health and developmental screening where identified, or delegate responsibility where appropriate to other team members. Responsibility / accountability for a caseload whilst overseeing and supporting other staff members. Delegation of workload from caseload where appropriate, whilst retaining oversight of cases and agreed identified actions. Work as an autonomous practitioner taking responsibility for care given to children, young people and families but also work as team members. Support and develop skill mixed staff within an integrated team. Prioritise workload to ensure all tasks are actioned in a timely fashion according to level of need. ## Responsibilities Undertake complex holistic health needs assessments of children and young people in a wide range of environments and across a broad population spectrum. Interpret, analyse and collate complex information, liaising with children, young people and families and other services/agencies as appropriate. To inform and implement a plan of care using evidence-based criterion to rationalise professional decisions and actions. Monitor progress and adapt plans to maximize health benefits for clients. Provide skilled, evidence-based nursing care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures. Help others e.g. children, young people, parents and carers to identify their own level of knowledge and skill and offer support, information and advice to enable them to access services and adopt healthy lifestyles. Using excellent communication skills, communicate effectively with children young people, parents / carers and other professionals. Maintain accurate and comprehensive record keeping in line with NMC guidance and Trust policy. Have knowledge of Information Sharing and Assessment protocols and ability to identify and discern relevance of information to be shared to promote the safety of children. If a non-medical prescriber, diagnosis of clinical need to include patient history, clinical assessment, including physical examination where appropriate. Please refer to full job description. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the post Have access to a motor vehicle for use for work purposes/ car owner / driver - Must be able to work all year round. ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with children young people and families through the delivery of the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme. - Evidence of caseload management and exceptional organisational skills - Ability to work independently and within a team. - Experience of multi-agency working. - Ability to manage complex and distressing situations / cases. - Experience of managing a safeguarding caseload effectively. **Desirable** - Experience of giving and receiving supervision. ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Positive attitude. - Flexible, enthusiastic and self-motivated - Ability to think logically and make decisions. - Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative. - Ability to build positive professional relationships with colleagues, children, young people and families and other wider professionals. - Excellent role model. **Desirable** - Ability to motivate others. ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Demonstrate excellent clinical skills as a School Nurse. - Leadership skills. - Good knowledge of safeguarding practice, acts and policies. - Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme and current Public Health Guidance. School Nurse SCPHN Job Description. - Knowledge and ability to use and communicate through IT packages such as Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint - Excellent interpersonal skills. - The ability to support colleagues to aid and improve practice. - Excellent verbal, non-verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills. - Strong organisational skills - Excellent record keeping skills / maintaining electronic clinical records. **Desirable** - Understanding of CNWL policies in relation to maintaining clinical records - Knowledge of local safeguarding board and Trust policies and guidance - Experience of working with Systmone. ### Education & Qualifications **Essential** - Specialist Community Public Health Nurse / School Nurse (SCPHN) - Registered NMC Nurse **Desirable** - Supervision Training. - Teaching / Mentorship Qualification. ## Documents - [cnwl values (pdf, 182.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1162) - [person spec. (pdf, 48.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10371150) - [job description (pdf, 264.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10371149) - [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) ## 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.