The closing date is 27 January 2025
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum
Contract
Permanent
Job summary
Join Our Team as a School Health Nurse
Are you passionate about nurturing the health and well-being of young minds? We invite you to take on an exciting role as the dedicated School Health Nurse for a vibrant High School and a cluster of dynamic Primary Schools.
In this vital position, you’ll have the opportunity to manage a diverse caseload, employing a proactive public health approach to deliver exceptional services. Your mission will be to enhance both the physical and mental health of students and their families, ensuring they thrive in a supportive environment.
Imagine being the guiding force behind programs that inspire healthy habits, resilience, and confidence among the school-aged population. You’ll collaborate with teachers, parents, and community partners to create a holistic support system, making a lasting impact on the lives of children and their families.
If you’re ready to make a difference and be a role model in the community, we want to hear from you! Join us in promoting a culture of health and well-being in our schools–because every child deserves the best start in life.
Apply now and become a champion for student health.
Main duties of the job
Are you ready to transform the lives of children and young people? We seek passionate individuals to join our Universal and Targeted Teams, delivering essential health services through the Healthy Child Programme (ages 5-19).
In the Universal Team, you’ll lead the implementation of the Healthy Child Programme in assigned schools, coordinating public health interventions, conducting vital health screenings, and ensuring children are up-to-date on immunisations. Your compassionate support for vulnerable children and young people will be pivotal in fostering a healthier community.
In the Targeted Team, you’ll manage a caseload that requires your expertise and empathy. You’ll assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate health interventions for children facing unique challenges, including:
- Child Protection Plans
- Children in Need
- Looked After Children
- Young People’s Plans
- Those Missing Education
- Young parents with complex health needs
This rewarding role allows you to safeguard the health and welfare of those you serve while collaborating within the Integrated Children & Families Service across Oldham. While your administrative base is set, your impact will extend throughout the community.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse qualification (RN, RSCN)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN SN pathway)
- Mentorship qualification
Desirable
- Family Planning/Sexual Health
Knowledge, Training and experience
Essential
- Registered Nurse qualification (RN, RSCN)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN SN pathway)
- Mentorship qualification
- Experience of working collaboratively across teams, agencies and organisational boundaries.
- Experience of working in the community with children, young people and their families
- Safeguarding of children and implementation of policy and procedures with evidence of training/updates
- Experience of working with vulnerable children
- Multidisciplinary/multiagency working
- Clinical supervision/preceptorship
- Experience of managing teams
- Working understanding of the Healthy Child Programme
- Knowledge and understanding of national and local current Public Health outcomes and inequalities
Desirable
- Experience of managing staff following HR management procedures e.g experience in managing sickness
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development and reflective practice to improve own skills, practice, and subject knowledge
- Understand the potential effects of, and how to prepare and support children through, transitions and significant events in their lives
- Demonstrate leadership skills
- Has working knowledge of Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with children and young people and professionals about a wide variety of issues
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload and without direct supervision
- Demonstrates ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to communicate unpleasant and highly sensitive information
- Takes responsibility for caseload
- Knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy relating to specialist area
- Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care
- Awareness of public health issues relating to school aged children and their families
- Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service need
Desirable
- Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).