# Specialist Practitioner School Nursing > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-practitioner-school-nursing/13942ba0-e616-4722-96d9-d124ef2fbd24 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-practitioner-school-nursing/13942ba0-e616-4722-96d9-d124ef2fbd24.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Poole - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £27,704 - £33,361 p.a. - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 26 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-06T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-23T13:22:49.700Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Dorset/Bournemouth/Dorset_HealthCare_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/School_Nursing/School_Nursing-v8145095 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8145095?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview As a Specialist Practitioner, you will lead and participate in the School Nursing core programme, as underpinned by the Healthy Child Programme and will work in partnership with children, young people and families, the Local Authority, Early Intervention Services, Children’s Services, Schools and other Health Care providers. You will be required to work closely with the pan Dorset 0-19 CYP Public Health Teams, to provide services in response to identified needs, including supporting the delivery of the ChatHealth texting service, Safeguarding and School Nursing Requests for Support. You will be Registered Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner School You will be able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention. Applications from candidates who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position. Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. ### Main duties of the job To provide a high-quality person-centred approach to care delivery which always considers people’s safety, privacy, and dignity. To work within the Children Young Person Public Health (CYP PH) Service to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and targeted interventions to children 5 to 19 and their families. To promote the health and wellbeing of the 5 to 19 population and their families To provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of patients / service users. To devise specialist programmes of care for members of the 0-19 team and other professionals, to deliver and ensure they are delivered appropriately. To plan, implement and review health improvement programmes in a range of settings and be proactive in delivering the national and local public health agendas in response to identified health and social need. To work in partnership with other agencies and meet agreed standards, objectives, and statutory requirements. Provide supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students and trained practitioners. To provide line management and leadership within the 0-19 team ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification.  When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post. We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidate’s individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role. All submissions must be truthful and if you do use AI, it should only be used to enhance your application and not create your supporting statement in its entirety. Your supporting statement should be in your own words and must accurately reflect your personal experience and achievements.  Where we have concerns that AI has been used to generate content that misrepresents your experience and suitability for the role, we may withdraw your application. As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare offers support for people getting into work. We offer an employability service to support individuals with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support, please do contact \[email protected\] ## Person Specification ### Job Specific Experience **Essential** - Experience of specialist working - Recent previous experience within a comparable role - Experience of managing change - Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice - Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention. - Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively ### Knowledge, Skills and Training **Essential** - Registered Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner School Nursing degree/diploma level - Membership of the relevant Professional Body - Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio - Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role **Desirable** - Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training ### Managerial/Supervisory Experience **Essential** - Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff - Experience of leading and managing a team **Desirable** - Experience of devising and delivering training ### Personal Qualities and Attributes **Essential** - Evidence of demonstrating the Trust’s values and behaviours - Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills - Able to overcome barriers to understanding where there are physical or mental disabilities **Desirable** - experience ## Documents - [dbs information (pdf, 22.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2340) - [staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 316.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=695) - [pay scales from 1 april 2025 (pdf, 44.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1941) - [applications recruitment flowchart (pdf, 434.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=866) - [152-m203.26 - specialist practitioner school nursing, band 6 - jd&ps (pdf, 701.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10481518) ## 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.