# Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: School Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-community-public-health-nurse-school-nurse/a9d8ddf7-2b9d-4e79-97e1-9a4847b769bc - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-community-public-health-nurse-school-nurse/a9d8ddf7-2b9d-4e79-97e1-9a4847b769bc.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 p.a. inc. - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (term time only) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-14T14:51:42.560Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Haggerston/Homerton_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/School_Nursing/School_Nursing-v8128090 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8128090?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.homerton.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an excellent opportunity to join the Homerton School Nursing Service to progress and develop your leadership skills while strengthening your public health knowledge and skills in this specialist area all within a highly successful Trust. This post is only for candidates who are  qualified school nurses who has undertaken training to be a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: School Nurse We are seeking Band 6 Specialist Community Public Health School Nurses, highly motivated, enthusiastic, innovative, and forward-thinking with a strong public health focus. You must be fully committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse population which is in the heart of London Borough of Hackney and the City of London. If you want to be part of our dynamic school nursing team, then this post is for you. The post is school, and community based, at various sites as required by the needs of the service. We cover primary, secondary, special schools and Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), across a wide area with diverse needs to deliver the healthy child programme 5-19 (25 SEND). You must have SCPHN - School Nursing qualification and with current NMC registration. ### Main duties of the job - Delivering the Healthy Child Programme across the allocated schools, prioritising the specific health needs of individual children and young people where required - Ensure all service delivery and practice undertaken with children and young people takes account of their disability, diversity and religious customs. - Use evidence-based programmes to improve outcomes for children and young people in school and those who are home schooled. - Plan, develop, implement and evaluate health improvement programmes that take place within the school setting or the community - Initiative outreach clinics to enable parents and carers to access additional support and advice for their children - Contribute to developing and or reviewing Standard Operating Procedures that facilitate good practice, and implementing these in all relevant aspects of practice and service provision - Contribute and respond to public health guidance and health promotion needs as well as new ways of meeting population health needs - Encourage service users to engage in health promotion and public health messages and enable them to provide appropriate lived experience to support the programmes - Contribute and engage in effective ways of service delivery including the development and use of pathways that enable seamless service provision for service users ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. 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The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed. ## Person Specification ### Abilities **Essential** - Prioritising and managing conflicting priorities - Work efficiently and effectively - Teaching and assessing - Delegation - Flexible working **Desirable** - Undertaking audits ### Qualifications **Essential** - Current NMC registration - Specialist Community Public Health Nurse – School Nurse - Mentorship training **Desirable** - Non-medical prescribing ### Trust Values, Equal Opportunities & Other Requirements **Essential** - Understanding and demonstration of the Trust Values ## Documents - [trust values (pdf, 652.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=938) - [guidance for applicants (pdf, 124.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=937) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 312.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10425037) ## 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.