SCPHN School Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a SCPHN School Nurse to join the Children's Community Services Team at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT. The successful candidate will engage with clients, peers, and partner agencies, leading by example and promoting a supportive culture. They will deliver the Healthy Child Programme and safeguarding services, working with multi-agency teams. The role involves managing and developing the Children's Community Services Team (5-19) and contributing to service development. The post is based at Brimington Clinic, covering schools in the Chesterfield area, and requires travel across Derbyshire.
Essential criteria
- NMC first level registered nurse
- SCPHN School nursing
- Evidence of recent post registration learning
Desirable criteria
- Nurse Prescribing
- Mentorship qualification
- Recognised teaching and assessing qualification
- Experience and Knowledge
- Sound understanding and awareness of community and public health agenda
- Developing and devising public health initiatives
- Teaching experience
- Skills and Attributes
- Clinical Leadership
- Basic IT skills
- Requirement to travel across the geographical area/driver
- IT skills
- Experience of working with electronic patient records, along with knowledge of associated record keeping policies and caldicott prinicipals
- Knowledge of using social media
- NMC first level registered nurse
- SCPHN School nursing
- Evidence of recent post registration learning
- Nurse Prescribing
- Mentorship qualification
- Recognised teaching and assessing qualification
- Experience and Knowledge
- Sound understanding and awareness of community and public health agenda
- Developing and devising public health initiatives
- Teaching experience
- Skills and Attributes
- Clinical Leadership
- Basic IT skills
- Requirement to travel across the geographical area/driver
- IT skills
- Experience of working with electronic patient records, along with knowledge of associated record keeping policies and caldicott prinicipals
- Knowledge of using social media
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT
SCPHN School Nurse
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
DCHS has an opportunity for a SCPHN School Nurse to join the Children's Community Services Team.
You will need to effectively engage with your client group, peers and partner agencies in all elements of your role, leading by example and promoting a supportive and caring culture.
This will require an inclusive, transparent, open approach to your role, where you are happy to be accountable to others and to go that extra mile when required.
You will be passionate about our business, creating a culture of continuous improvement, where patient welfare is at the heart of all you do.
Working with the skill mix team, you will deliver the Healthy Child Programme universally along with progressive levels of service and safeguarding children according to identified need.
You will provide services in partnership with the local voluntary sector and multi-agency teams and participate in service improvement both within the locality and across the county.
Main duties of the job
You will manage and develop the Children's Community Services Team (5-19) and contribute to the development of services to deliver the commissioned service specification.
You will be part of the multi-disciplinary team including the wider local children's workforce, working within a p
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