Job summary
- Main area
- School Nurse (SCPHN) B6
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (End Date 02/04/2025 (Monday to Friday Term Time Only))
- Hours
- Full time
- Term time hours
- Job ref
- 824-SOUTH-9898
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Causeway - Richmond
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £40,701 - £48,054 Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS (Annualised for TTO working)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
School Nurse (SCPHN) B6
Band 6
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
SCPHN School Nurse - Band 6 - Richmond – 1 Year Fixed Term Contract
Monday-Friday Term Time Only
The School Nursing Team is seeking dynamic individuals with a strong public health focus who are fully committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse school aged population. You will be a highly motivated individual with an interest in proactively managing health promotion initiatives. If you'd like an exciting and rewarding career in School Nursing, CLCH can offer you a great next step.
We're recruiting Band 6 School Nurse into an innovative, award winning and growing service. We cover primary, secondary and special needs schools across a wide area with diverse needs. We offer support and mentoring from a great team including national School Nurse of the Year winners. You'll also be able to take on development and mentoring roles to help build your career and support our junior staff and student nurses. Our school nursing service has taken on four new boroughs in the last year and is building a reputation as one of London's strongest teams.
Main duties of the job
We've just been rated ‘GOOD’ by the Care Quality Commission. We're in the Health Service Journal's list of the top 120 best places to work and in Stonewall's top 40 employers list. CLCH is a great place to do a great job; helping give children a better start in life.
We deliver an excellent public health and child centred model of care, working with children aged 5-19, their families and education teams. We're looking for motivated and innovative school nurses keen to rise to the challenges of helping children.
We welcome applications from newly qualified and experienced School Nurses. Some of the benefits of working with CLCH include: a robust preceptorship programme for the first 12 months, outstanding safeguarding support from our safeguarding team, and comprehensive suite of training for school nurses, which supports revalidation, professional development opportunities and clinical supervision, staff awards and annual educators/mentors conference to celebrate the outstanding contributions made by our staff.
If you would like to be a future School Nurse of the Year, CLCH would love to help you get there. If you would like to join our team and make a tangible difference to children, young people and families lives we would like to hear from you.
You must have SCPHN – School Nursing (BSc course) qualification and RGN Registered Nurse (Adult or Paediatric).
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a skilled, effective and evidence based service to children and young people within schools and community settings.
To act as a named school nurse for a cluster of nominated schools, applying specialist skills and knowledge in the delivery of the school health service
To develop an overview of the profiled health needs of the defined population alerting the Team Lead where any service gaps are identified.
To identify, prioritise and implement programmes of care that meet the public health needs of the defined school age population.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/Midwife (current)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse School Nursing / or Differing in Practice in school nursing
- Evidence of continuing post- registration education and training
Desirable criteria
- Practice Assessor course
- PSHE Course
- Community nurse prescribing qualification or prepared to work towards.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Micheala Anderson
- Job title
- School Nurse Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07586 436 247
- Additional information
For informal discussions and tour of our sites please contact one of our team leads:
Micheala Anderson
Email: [email protected] or Tel: 07586 436 247
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