Job Introduction
We are excited to offer a unique opportunity to join HCRG Care Group as a SCPHN School Nurse.
This full-time (37.5 hours per week) fixed-term 12-month training contract provides the chance to gain registration on the NMC SCPHN register alongside a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health Practice.
Delivered in partnership with Oxford Brookes University, this programme combines high-quality online academic learning with hands-on clinical experience within our School Aged Health Service in Bath and North East Somerset.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills required to support the health and wellbeing of school-aged children and young people within a community setting.
The post is offered at Band 5, point 1. We are keen to recruit promptly, with applications closing on 10th June and shortlisting taking place on 11th June. Interviews will be held face-to-face in July.
Please note that the starting date is January 2027.
The ideal candidate will have -
Essential:
- NMC nursing registration – any form of nursing
- Nursing degree (second- or first-class classification
- Evidence of recent study to degree level (within 5 years)
Desirable:
- Experience working with school-aged children or public health 0-19 nursing teams
- Community nursing experience
- Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme
For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Marian Judd or Caroline Hodgkinson - marian.judd@hcrgcaregroup.com or caroline.hodgkinson@hcrgcaregroup.com
Package Description
As a SCPHN School Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our 0-19 Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £32,073 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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