SCPHN School Nurse

Job overview

Are you an experienced Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) seeking a role where you can influence outcomes, lead public health practice, and continue to grow professionally? Take the Next Step in Your Career with Our Universal Children’s Service (0–19).

Join our Universal Children’s Service (0–19) in Lambeth and Southwark, where you’ll play a key role in improving the health and wellbeing of babies, children, young people and families across diverse and vibrant communities.

As an experienced SCPHN you’ll use your specialist public health knowledge to lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, build trusted relationships with families and work collaboratively with multidisciplinary partners to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities. You’ll have the autonomy to make clinical decisions while being supported by a highly skilled and experienced team committed to delivering outstanding care.

As part of Evelina London, you’ll benefit from strong links with specialist hospital services, a culture of evidence-based practice and opportunities to contribute to service innovation, quality improvement and integrated working across the 0–19 Universal Children’s Service.

If you’re looking for a rewarding role where your expertise is valued, your development is encouraged and you can make a lasting difference to the lives of babies, children, young people and families, we’d love to hear from you.

• Closing date: 19th September 2026
• Interview date: 30th September 2026

Main duties of the job

Part of the main duties involves:

• To organise the delivery of 0-19 service to a defined population, including home visits, school visits and provision at other sites
• Undertake health needs assessments with children, young people and families and working in partnership with other agencies/services, to implement appropriate individual programmes of care
• Undertake family centred enhanced support with families with complex health and social needs to improve outcomes for children, young people and families

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Comprehensive information is provided on the role and requirements within job description and person specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will have a leadership role within the 0-19 Universal Service and be responsible for managing a caseload, ensuring the provision of a high standard of service delivery to the school-age population and their families in the community.

This will include:

• First contact, assessment, care and referral, identifying health needs and raising awareness of health and wellbeing.
• Continuing care, health improvement programmes, chronic disease management and delivering the Healthy Child Programme.
• Influencing the broader context which affects health and social wellbeing, providing public health and promotion programs that improve health and reduce inequalities.

The post holder will support the School Nurse Team Leader in developing effective relationships and maintaining effective partnership working and relationships’

The post holder will be responsible for education, training, mentoring, for health and social care students in clinical placements/he will mentor and be a preceptor to new junior members of staff. Exhibiting excellence in clinical care s/he will be an effective role model for others to aspire and work towards.

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.