School Nurse - Cirencester

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Fixed term SCHOOL NURSE vacancy in Cotswolds locality until 30th September 2026.

37.5 hours, worked across core hours of Monday to Friday, 9-5 excluding Bank Holidays

We are looking for a registered nurse or midwife to work with children and families in the School Nursing team in Cotswolds.

We offer:

• An Induction Programme, training and competency framework to underpin transition into role
• Clinical Supervision, Restorative Supervision and Safeguarding Children Supervision to support professional practice
• Digital appointments to young people and parents offering quick and easy access to health advice and support
• Social media platforms and a texting service in response to requests of young people and families.
• Diverse work in a skill-mixed team developed through robust competency and operating frameworks

This role offers diverse and rewarding opportunities for nurses to make a difference to children and young people's lives through advice, support and signposting using public health skills of enabling and empowering families and communities to help themselves.

We welcome applications from newly qualified nurses.

Main duties of the job

A School Nurse is someone who is:

• Dynamic and innovative, who embraces challenge
• Wanting to help children, families and young people to make the best choices for their health and wellbeing
• Able to support and respond to children, young people and families most in need
• Wanting to help safeguard children and young people of Gloucestershire at risk of harm
• Interested in working in partnership with public sector and voluntary and community sector colleagues to achieve the best outcomes for children, young people and their families
• Enthusiastic and motivated to develop and deliver plans to improve health outcomes for individuals, families and communities

We strongly encourage all applicants to spend some time either speaking with a school nurse or shadowing to gain a practical insight of the role.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Job responsibilities

• Responsible and accountable for assessing and implementing programmes of care from the Healthy Child Programme, as directed by the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse.
• Progress the level of intervention as may be required according to identified risk factors which potentially could impact on a child's health outcomes.
• Provide leadership and act as a role model to junior members of the team.
• Assess global health needs of communities, schools, and their children.
• Promote and monitor health in school-aged children.
• Work with schools to provide a healthy environment.

Facilitate the planning and implementation of drop-in sessions, according to the needs of the young people and the whole school community.

Person Specification

Experience

• Demonstrates an understanding of public health nursing in application
• Has some knowledge/experience of safeguarding children
• Has previous experience of working with children and families

Qualifications

• BSc in Nursing (or equivalent)
• NMC Registration at level 1
• GSCB Child Protection training above foundation level

Attributes

• Strong time management and organisation skills
• Shows emotional strength and resilience

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.