School Nurse

Job title:

School Nurse

Company

Somerset County Council

Job description

We’d also like to use analytics cookies so we can understand how you use our website and make improvements to your services.Accept additional cookies Reject additional cookiesSearchSearch Somerset CouncilPopular searchesJobSchool NurseClosing in 14 days (14 November, 2024)Salary £22,402 to £26,977 per annum
Department Public Health
Working pattern Part Time
Location Somerset
Closing date 14 November, 2024About the job

• The salary for this post is in line with Agenda for Change Band 6, which has a current salary range of £35,392 to £42,618 per annum (pro rata for part time hours)
• The core hours of the service are 9am-5pm Monday to Friday
• The annual leave entitlement is 30 days pro rata.
• Supportive preceptorship programme and clear competency framework
• Various locations throughout Somerset
• Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme, Subject to meeting certain criteria, or Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme

We’re working to improve the lives of children, young people and their families in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that. Your day-to-day work will involve:

• Lead on the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme as defined within the service specification, identifying packages of care based on the Targeted and Specialist models of service delivery.
• Provide leadership and supervision to other members of the Public Health Team ensuring you delegate appropriately to other team members and work within somerset Local Authority policies and procedures.
• Take responsibility for the outcomes of the children and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs.
• Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
• Provide school age children, young people and their families with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing.
• Contribute to multi-agency early support assessment of children and families and take on lead professional role where appropriate.
• Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
• Contribute to multi-agency early support assessment of children and families and take on lead professional role where appropriate.

We are looking for an ambitious Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) to join our award-winning service in Somerset. Using your lived experience, you will be able to get involved in service development and share ideas and best practice.You must be an NMC registered Nurse with a SCPHN qualification and an interest of holistically addressing the health needs of school age children, young people and their families.We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you applyWe are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• Flexible, family friendly working patterns, working between 9:00 – 5:00 Monday to Friday
• Prioritised superb Safeguarding, Clinical, and Restorative supervision
• The opportunity to fulfil your leadership role within the team
• Continuing Professional Development opportunities
• 30 days annual leave allowance (plus bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to 2 weeks additional leave.
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.

For an informal chat about the role, you can contact Lucy Pitts – School Nurse team Manager/Practice Educator via email at [email protected].If you have everything you need, just hit the apply button. We can’t wait to hear from you.This job requires a criminal background check (DBS) via the disclosure procedure.Related informationIs this page useful? Yes NoThank you for your feedbackIf you’d like to send us more details about your experience you can use our feedback form. This will be used to make improvements across the website.CloseThank you for your feedbackTo help us improve somerset.gov.uk, we would like to know more about your website visit today. It would really help if you could fill in our feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes.CloseThank you for your feedbackGet in touchpage for more information and advice on how to get in touch with one of our support teams

Expected salary

£22402 – 26977 per year

Location

Somerset

Job date

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 06:19:34 GMT

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