School Nurse (SCPHN)

Looking for a Role Where You Can Lead and Inspire?

Are you ready to transform lives and create brighter futures for children and young people? As a School Nurse, you'll lead the charge in delivering life-changing health initiatives and early interventions that truly make a difference.

Imagine a role where every day brings new opportunities to inspire healthier lifestyles, support emotional wellbeing, and empower young people to reach their full potential. You'll be at the heart of the Healthy Child Programme, working with a skilled and passionate team to deliver dynamic health assessments, creative public health initiatives, and impactful interventions across schools and communities in our Tower Hamlets Enhanced Public Health Nursing Service.

This isn't just a job, it's a calling. Safeguarding will be a cornerstone of your work, as you collaborate with multi-agency teams to ensure every child and family feels supported. Your ability to reflect, evaluate, and analyse will drive innovative, evidence-based solutions that leave a lasting mark.

As a leader and mentor, you'll guide and inspire colleagues, providing expert advice, supervision, and support. Together, you'll shape a forward-thinking, compassionate service that's always striving for better outcomes.

Shape the Future, Starting Today - Join Our School Nursing Team!

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a dedicated Registered Nurse who holds the SCPHN School Nursing qualification to join our amazing team who also has the following skills and experience:

• Experience delivering the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), providing early intervention and holistic health support.
• Strong caseload management skills, assessing need, prioritising risk, and delivering person-centred care.
• Mentorship or preceptorship experience, supporting and developing colleagues.
• Leadership ability, supervising a skill mix team and ensuring high standards of care.
• Excellent risk management and safeguarding knowledge, promoting safety and wellbeing.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing changing priorities with resilience.
• Evidence-based approach, using data and insight to shape interventions and improve outcomes.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, working effectively with multi-agency teams.
• Innovative and solution-focused, influencing service development and best practice.

Although not deal breakers; experience working with vulnerable groups, data analysis skills, and a proactive approach would further enhance your impact in this role.

If you thrive on adapting to change, using your insight to refine interventions, and championing innovative ways of working, you'll be a great fit.

If you're ready to make a real difference, drive innovation, and be part of a team that truly supports and values you, we'd love to hear from you!

About us

Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. Established for over 30 years, Compass is a national charity which works in communities across the UK providing services spanning substance misuse treatment and rehabilitation, early interventions for vulnerable young people, school-aged health programmes and associated prevention as well as treatment and health promotion initiatives.

All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks.

We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce.

We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require at any point.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including:

• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)
• 18 Months Retention Bonus for SCPHN School Nurses
• Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
• Enhanced sick pay
• Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
• Annual performance/salary review

Help us to make a positive change to the lives of children and young people!

Job summary

Job responsibilities

Looking for a Role Where You Can Lead and Inspire?

Are you ready to transform lives and create brighter futures for children and young people? As a School Nurse, you'll lead the charge in delivering life-changing health initiatives and early interventions that truly make a difference.

Imagine a role where every day brings new opportunities to inspire healthier lifestyles, support emotional wellbeing, and empower young people to reach their full potential. You'll be at the heart of the Healthy Child Programme, working with a skilled and passionate team to deliver dynamic health assessments, creative public health initiatives, and impactful interventions across schools and communities in our Tower Hamlets Enhanced Public Health Nursing Service.

This isn't just a job, it's a calling. Safeguarding will be a cornerstone of your work, as you collaborate with multi-agency teams to ensure every child and family feels supported. Your ability to reflect, evaluate, and analyse will drive innovative, evidence-based solutions that leave a lasting mark.

As a leader and mentor, you'll guide and inspire colleagues, providing expert advice, supervision, and support. Together, you'll shape a forward-thinking, compassionate service that's always striving for better outcomes.

Shape the Future, Starting Today - Join Our School Nursing Team!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification (SCPHN - School Nursing)

Experience

Essential

• Experience of delivering the HCP
• Previous mentorship / preceptorship experience
• Caseload management responsibilities

Desirable

• Working with vulnerable groups

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Demonstrate leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff.
• Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures.
• Planning workload, time management.
• Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities
• Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection and achieving targets.
• IT skills
• Team player and a dynamic personality.
• Multiagency/disciplinary working
• Excellent communication skills and able to relate to children and young people.
• Innovative practice and ability to influence others
• Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention
• Visionary approach to managing change and transition
• Positive attitude; flexible and adaptable; solution focused; and tenacious
• Be flexible and adaptable to meet business need
• Has a strong degree of personal integrity
• Able to regularly travel for work purposes effectively and efficiently around the borough.

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

Compass

Address

Tower Hamlets, Spotlight,

30 Hay Currie Street

London

E14 6GN

Employer's website

https://www.compass-uk.org/ (Opens in a new tab)