School Nurse

Are you a School Nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to develop and progress your career? We are really excited to have investment in School Nursing in Cornwall.

We are looking for School Nurses to come and join our 0-19 Locality Teams. We are integrated with our Early Help and Social Care colleagues and share an integrated electronic record which supports communication and co-ordination. We are aiming for each Secondary School to have a named School Nurse who will work alongside a mixed skilled health team to cover surrounding Primary Schools.

Main duties of the job

Working in Cornwall has the added advantage of having some beautiful rural areas and beaches which provide plenty of leisure opportunities to create a great work-life balance. There are exciting opportunities to be part of partnership working groups and multi-disciplinary practice discussions. You will contribute, progress, and lead innovative practice, enhancing effective partnership working with education, GPs, Children’s Services, Public Health, and other key agencies.

We currently have full-time posts in the Mid Area of Cornwall, including the St Austell / Clays area.

About us

Cornwall Council's 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 while still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• 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 responsibilities

The Role:

Delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to provide evidence-based family-centred public health services to achieve the service vision and meet the needs of communities, families, and children and young people.

If you are interested in finding out more, please do not hesitate to contact:

Jennifer Walmsley (Team Manager) at jennifer.walmsley@cornwall.gov.uk

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

What you'll need to succeed:

You will need to be a qualified School Nurse (SCPHN) with leadership skills, looking for a diverse and exciting School Nursing post. You will be forward-thinking, proactive, and committed to improving the health outcomes of children, families, and communities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Please refer to the attached role profile.

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.