Student Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: HV/SN

Student Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: HV/SN

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Student (SCPHN) Starting September 2025

Have you ever considered a role as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) in Health Visiting or School Nursing?

Are you motivated to learn and develop knowledge, skills and critical abilities to provide leadership and innovation in schools and local communities? Would you enjoy the rewards and challenges of leading new ways of working and innovation in preventative health in the community?

As a SCPHN you can make a real difference to children, young people, families and communities. You will play a fundamental role in the development of the Healthy Child Programme 0-19 across the BNSSG footprint, promoting development, emotional health and well-being of the child or young person. You will support parents/carers and tackle important public health issues whilst focusing on the child or young person.

This is a one-year fixed term, fully funded post to undertake defined project training and is for 37.5 hours a week. Please note this will also be study at Masters level.

For the practice and placement element of this role you will be aligned to a team within one of the localities across BNSSG. Whilst you will be in one of these areas for the first part of your training, you will be in another locality for the later part of the training period. This is supportive of your experiential learning and exposure to wider communities within our geography.

Main duties of the job

As a SCPHN student you will be an NMC Registered Nurse or Midwife and will complete a 52-week programme at Masters level to gain the professional qualification of SCPHN (50% in practice and 50% theory lead by UWE). Included in the 52 weeks the student will gain practical experience and exposure to a range of experiences within the service.

The practice assessor will assess achievement of overall proficiency for entry to the SCPHN part of the register. Contact with families is in their school, home and other community venues and you will be required to attend the university for academic purposes.

Students will have access to additional learning within the organisation including, learning sets and role specific training alongside the public health nursing teams.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

Please note you must have a full driving licence and access to a car for work purposes in order to be considered for this role.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working with children or families

Qualifications

• You must be a Registered nurse; mental health nurse, learning disability nurse, adult nurse, children's nurse or midwife.
• Valid driving licence and access to a car for work purposes

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.

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

083-7139511-WW

Job locations

Various bases available across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire