Public Health Nursery Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This advert explicitly states that sponsorship is not offered.
The source advert contains explicit wording ruling out sponsorship for this specific role. Consider other live roles at the same band from sponsorship-friendly trusts.
“All band 2 roles are not eligible for sponsorship. The trust no longer supports HCSW band 3 roles with sponsorship”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
The Rotherham Childrens Public Health Nursing Service is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Public Health Nursery Nurse. This role involves delivering high-quality public health nursing, promoting healthy lifestyles, and improving health inequalities for children, young people, and their families in Rotherham. You will work within a skill mix team, focusing on safeguarding vulnerable children and liaising with partner agencies. The position requires independent travel to homes, schools, and family hubs to deliver safe and effective services.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain effective communication with children, their families and professionals involved in client care ensuring individualised client centred approach.
- Have an understanding and awareness of the nursery nurses responsibility in safeguarding vulnerable clients, including children, young people and adults.
- Work in collaboration with parent/carers and other professionals including statutory and voluntary agencies.
- Be responsible for the delivery of public health and universal and targeted interventions, delegated by the Specialist Public Health Practitioner.
- Seek out and offer and teach health promotion and preventative opportunities to children, young people their families and promote positive health and behaviour management.
- Work with children, young people and families within the home environment, or other identified community setting and travel to these locations independently.
Essential criteria
- A willingness to work towards a competency framework.
- A willingness to undertake training
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Competent in the use of information technology.
- Due to the nature of the role it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently between TRFT sites and for patient visits in the Rotherham area and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes. If necessary, adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.
- Able to work as part of a team.
- Ability to convey sensitive information in an empathetic manner to patients, relative/carers and staff.
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Produce timely, accurate written/electronic records and documents
- Knowledge of child development, across the age range
- Demonstrate knowledge of confidentiality and information sharing requirements
- Demonstrate knowledge of safeguarding children
- Good standard of general education Minimum of 3 GCSEs at grade C/level 4 or above
- NVQ /BTEC or equivalent in a relevant topic area e.g Health and Social Care.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Willingness to undertake further training relevant to the post
Desirable criteria
- Involvement in innovative practice.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 10d
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The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
Public Health Nursery Nurse
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
This post ends on 31st Mar 2027
The Rotherham Childrens Public Health Nursing Service are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated practitioner with initiative and drive.
Our 0-19 service delivers high quality public health nursing, promotes healthy lifestyles and improves health inequalities to children, young people and their families in Rotherham. You will need to have excellent communication and organisational skills, be willing to facilitate and support change in service delivery, have the ability to work autonomously and as part of an integrated skill mix team. We offer flexible and agile working options.
You will work within a skill mix team of Health Visitors, Staff Nurses and Community Nursery Nurses. You will have an important role in recognising and protecting vulnerable children and liaising with our partner agencies such as GPs, Schools, Social Care and the Police, providing seamless care to the families of Rotherham.
The successful candidates will work to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality services to a caseload of babies, children, and their families, using research-based evidence to inform practice. The post will require the Nursery Nurse to travel between homes, schools, and family hubs within the Rotherh
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