Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nursing

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Specialist Community Public Health Nurses, School Nurse - (NMC part 3) to the Newport Team of School Nurses for 22.5 hours per week/0.6WTE, all year round.

The candidate should be a motivated, enthusiastic and dynamic nurse with excellent knowledge, skills and experience.

Applications are also welcomed from SCPHN students due to qualify in April 2025.

Main duties of the job

Job Purpose:

• To provide an easily accessible young person friendly, clinically effective high quality service to a defined caseload of school aged children and their families. Working in partnership with service users, parents, school staff and members of the primary health care team he/she will undertake health surveillance, health promotion and other public health duties.
• To promote the health of school aged children, and the wider school community, through school and community based health education programmes and activities, and through direct input in school health education programmes and teaching alongside education staff in school settings.
• To contribute to the safeguarding, and protection of school aged children at risk of abuse and to provide ongoing monitoring, support and advice to these children and their families.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.