About this role
Job summary
Are you a School Nurse looking for an opportunity to develop your skills and progress your career? We are recruiting an SCPHN School Nurse to join our team in the East of Cornwall.
Main duties of the job
The role includes supervising and supporting skillmix staff and learners, ensuring safe, highquality and consistent practice. You will contribute to service development, quality assurance, safeguarding decisionmaking and interagency planning, including working with education, CAMHS, social care and other partners.
You will assess, plan, deliver and review public health interventions across your school community, identifying health needs and vulnerabilities at both individual and population level. You will hold accountability for a caseload of children, young people and families, providing specialist assessment and evidencebased care in partnership with other professionals and agencies.
About us
Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
a competitive salary.
a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Job description Job responsibilities
The Service & Team:
This post sits within Education & Community Health, part of the Together for Families directorate. The School Nursing 519 Team delivers the Healthy Child Programme across Cornwall, working in partnership with schools, families, health colleagues and wider multiagency partners to improve health outcomes for children and young people.
You will join an experienced and supportive team committed to evidencebased, familycentred public health practice, early intervention, safeguarding and reducing health inequalities. The service prioritises collaboration, professional development and consistent, highquality care.
The Role:
The role includes supervising and supporting skillmix staff and learners, ensuring safe, highquality and consistent practice. You will contribute to service development, quality assurance, safeguarding decisionmaking and interagency planning, including working with education, CAMHS, social care and other partners.
You will assess, plan, deliver and review public health interventions across your school community, identifying health needs and vulnerabilities at both individual and population level. You will hold accountability for a caseload of children, young people and families, providing specialist assessment and evidencebased care in partnership with other professionals and agencies.
Key aspects of the role include:
Leading delivery of the Healthy Child Programme in the localityProviding specialist public health nursing interventionsManaging and supervising a team of support staffContributing to safeguarding processes, legal decisionmaking and protection planningSupporting service development through audit, data, research and evaluationMaintaining accurate records and complying with information governance requirements
This is a public/customerfacing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This post is subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern:
The role is delivered across schools, community settings and family homes, with flexible and agile working arrangements in place where service delivery allows. Independent travel across the locality is required.
What youll need to succeed:
You must:
Be a qualified School Nurse (SCPHN)Hold current NMC registrationDemonstrate leadership skills, including supervision of skillmix staffShow commitment to improving outcomes for children, young people and familiesHave strong assessment, analytical and decisionmaking skillsBe confident working collaboratively across agencies and systemsHave current safeguarding knowledge and experience working with vulnerable childrenHold a full UK driving licence and be able to travel independently
You will be proactive, organised and committed to professional development, with the ability to deliver highquality, evidencebased public health nursing practice
Please note, as this is a position with Cornwall Council, if your application is shortlisted, your details will be securely transferred to Cornwall Council's recruitment system for the purposes of progressing your application.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Be a qualified School Nurse (SCPHN) Hold current NMC registration
Experience Essential
Demonstrate leadership skills, including supervision of skillmix staff
Travel Requirements Essential
Hold a full UK driving licence and be able to travel independently
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Cornwall Council
Address New County Hall
Treyew Road
Truro
Cornwall
TR1 3AY
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)