SCPHN School Nurse

Closing date: 09 November 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Camden School Nursing service to recruit highly motivated and innovative practitioners to join the School Nursing Service to deliver the Healthy Child Programme.

If you are interested in the role and are keen to show you are the right person for the job we want to hear from you, so please apply online now!

Please only apply if you are a Registered Nurse with a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) registration.
Main duties of the job
As an integral member of the Camden School Nursing service, you will be responsible for delivering the Healthy Child Programme in collaboration with the wider school health team. We offer excellent professional development opportunities along with formal one to one supervision and annual appraisal.

About us
We are advertising for a post in our Camden School Nursing Service, within the Goodall division of Central and North West London NHS trust. Our trust values are Compassion, Respect, Empowerment and Partnership. There's a place for you at CNWL. We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Details
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 333-G-CC-1620
Job locations: Gospel Oak Health Centre, 5 Lismore Circus, London, NW5 4RA, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• To work in partnership with educational staff, health care professionals and other agencies to provide advice and support to children and young people, their parents and carers as required.
• Undertake appropriate training / updates related to public health issues in order to contribute towards meeting local and national Department of Health targets such as immunisations, teenage pregnancy and sexual health, smoking cessation and obesity.
• To carry out training sessions to other professionals on relevant health or medical issues and where appropriate, assist children and young people to manage their own health conditions independently.
• To undertake agreed health assessments on children and young people and ensure referrals, treatments and reviews are carried out as recommended and in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
• To develop high quality packages of care for children and young people with medical needs, in partnership with other health professionals, education, parents and carers and other agencies as necessary.
• To be responsible for identifying children and young people requiring medical follow-up planning.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• RGN [NMC Registered] / RSCN Child Branch
• Specialist Practitioner Community Public Health Nurse (School Nursing or Children's Community Nursing)

Desirable

• Evidence of Continual Professional development
• Mentorship Preparation or equivalent
• Public Health Nursing (Children and Families)
• Sexual health (or equivalent)
• School Nurse Certificate

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working with children in a professional capacity
• Working with families who have experienced trauma
• Proven post nursing registration experience
• Working with diverse communities
• Evidence to support experience of audit activity

Knowledge
Essential

• Understanding of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance.
• Knowledge of children with long term medical needs
• Understanding of the public health role of the school nurse
• Understanding of Equality and Valuing Diversity
• Knowledge of key documents and drivers informing school nursing practice

Skills
Essential

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
• Good computer literacy skills
• Ability to communicate in an effective way with people from a variety of backgrounds and different ages. Ability to demonstrate an understanding of team working

Desirable

• Ability to demonstrate essential leadership skills
• Ability to reflect on clinical practice and to understand own limitations when dealing with emotive issues
• Ability to act as a mentor or preceptor to students and newly recruited colleagues

Abilities
Essential

• Aware of own limitations and seek support from wider Team when dealing with highly emotive circumstances.
• Ability to manage difficult situations and conflict resolution

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer's website: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work

For questions about the job, contact: Deputy Service Lead, Helen Gunderson, h.gunderson@nhs.net, 07545649156

Date posted: 26 October 2026
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