Staff Nurse in School Nursing

If you are a registered NMC nurse and looking to join an innovative and forward thinking service, with a Trust ranked in the top 5 in the staff survey and rated outstanding by CQC, then consider a career as a Community School nurse. The team deliver a service that is commissioned by Coventry City Council and provided by South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust.

You should be highly motivated and compassionate, demonstrating excellent communication and team working skills to enable the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.

The 0-19 service focusses on ensuring that everyone in Coventry has the best possible start in life through meeting the needs of children and family.Our 0-19 services are offered from the antenatal period up until a young person turns 19 (25 SEND).

Your days will be varied and rewarding, working alongside Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (SCPHN), assessing health needs, to support aspects of a child/young persons development and health from transition into school.

You will offer mentorship to pre-registration students and preceptorship to new staff members. You will be supported to do this by our Practice Education team.

Regular safeguarding and clinical supervision is provided along with other professional development opportunities.

Career development in the form of the Specialist Community Public Health nurse training is available after 12 months of employment, Under the direction of the School Nurse the post holder will be responsible for delivering and evaluating preventative services and universal public health programmes, as set out in the Healthy Child Programme (HCP 5-19) (DH) for school aged children and young people, within both school and the surrounding community.

Undertake caseload work delegated by the school nurse including assessing health questionnaires, undertake secondary assessments deliver brief interventions and feedback progress to the school nurse.

Work with Children, young people, families, schools and communities to ensure the role and function of the school nursing service and how to access the service both outside of school hours and throughout the calendar year is known.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.