School Nurse

The Service & Team

This post sits within Education & Community Health, part of the Together for Families directorate. The School Nursing 5–19 Team delivers the Healthy Child Programme across Cornwall, working in partnership with schools, families, health colleagues and wider multi‑agency partners to improve health outcomes for children and young people.

You will join an experienced and supportive team committed to evidence‑based, family‑centred public health practice, early intervention, safeguarding and reducing health inequalities. The service prioritises collaboration, professional development and consistent, high‑quality care.

The Role

The role includes supervising and supporting skill‑mix staff and learners, ensuring safe, high‑quality and consistent practice. You will contribute to service development, quality assurance, safeguarding decision‑making and inter‑agency planning, including working with education, CAMHS, social care and other partners.

You will assess, plan, deliver and review public health interventions across your school community, identifying health needs and vulnerabilities at both individual and population level. You will hold accountability for a caseload of children, young people and families, providing specialist assessment and evidence‑based care in partnership with other professionals and agencies.

Key Aspects Of The Role Include

• Leading delivery of the Healthy Child Programme in the locality
• Providing specialist public health nursing interventions
• Managing and supervising a team of support staff
• Contributing to safeguarding processes, legal decision‑making and protection planning
• Supporting service development through audit, data, research and evaluation
• Maintaining accurate records and complying with information governance requirements

This is a public/customer‑facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This post is subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern

The role is delivered across schools, community settings and family homes, with flexible and agile working arrangements in place where service delivery allows. Independent travel across the locality is required.

You Must

What you’ll need to succeed

• Be a qualified School Nurse (SCPHN)
• Hold current NMC registration
• Demonstrate leadership skills, including supervision of skill‑mix staff
• Show commitment to improving outcomes for children, young people and families
• Have strong assessment, analytical and decision‑making skills
• Be confident working collaboratively across agencies and systems
• Have current safeguarding knowledge and experience working with vulnerable children
• Hold a full UK driving licence and be able to travel independently

You will be proactive, organised and committed to professional development, with the ability to deliver high‑quality, evidence‑based public health nursing practice

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What You’ll Get In Return

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

Sara Tripp (Team Manager) ***email_hidden***

Sarah Hyde (Team Manager) [email protected]

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact [email protected] if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options .

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.