Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nurse AA

Job details

• Job reference: 246957
• Salary: Band 7 (£52,845 - £61,466)
• Job closing date: 22/06/2026
• Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery
• Location: Base to be confirmed
• Employment type: Permanent
• Hours Per Week: 36
• Job posted date: 08/06/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Fife
• Department: School Nursing Service

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Registered School Nurse to join the Fife Wide School Nursing Service

If you have experience in supporting children and young people and their families and an awareness of the contemporary school nursing service then we would welcome your application. Knowledge and experience of Child Protection processes including supporting and working with care experienced children and young people is essential as this forms a large part of this role.

You will work across Fife within a dynamic service of School Nurses, Community staff nurses, Nursery Nurses and Healthcare support workers in a variety of settings including Health Centres and Schools.

It is an essential element of this post that you have completed the Specialist Practitioner Qualification in School Nursing and that your name is on part 3 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Register.

Informal Enquiries: Jennifer Grant School Nurse Team Leader Tel: 07805 124657 Email: Jennifer.Grant2@nhs.scot

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.

NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

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