Specialist Practitioner School Nursing
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 12/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
As a Specialist Practitioner, you will lead and participate in the School Nursing core programme, underpinned by the Healthy Child Programme. You will work in partnership with children, young people, families, and various health and social care providers. The role involves delivering services in response to identified needs, including supporting the ChatHealth texting service, Safeguarding, and School Nursing Requests for Support. You will demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to make clinical judgments regarding diagnosis and intervention.
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist working
- Recent previous experience within a comparable role
- Experience of managing change
- Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
- Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention.
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Managerial/Supervisory Experience
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff
- Experience of leading and managing a team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of devising and delivering training
- Knowledge, Skills and Training
- Registered Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner School Nursing degree/diploma level
- Membership of the relevant Professional Body
- Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio
- Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role
- Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
- Personal Qualities and Attributes
- Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours
- Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills
- Able to overcome barriers to understanding where there are physical or mental disabilities
- experience
- Job Specific Experience
- Experience of specialist working
- Recent previous experience within a comparable role
- Experience of managing change
- Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
- Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention.
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Managerial/Supervisory Experience
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff
- Experience of leading and managing a team
- Experience of devising and delivering training
- Knowledge, Skills and Training
- Registered Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner School Nursing degree/diploma level
- Membership of the relevant Professional Body
- Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio
- Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role
- Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
- Personal Qualities and Attributes
- Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours
- Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills
- Able to overcome barriers to understanding where there are physical or mental disabilities
- experience
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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Practitioner School Nursing
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
As a Specialist Practitioner, you will lead and participate in the School Nursing core programme, as underpinned by the Healthy Child Programme and will work in partnership with children, young people and families, the Local Authority, Early Intervention Services, Children's Services, Schools and other Health Care providers.
You will be required to work closely with the pan Dorset 0-19 CYP Public Health Teams, to provide services in response to identified needs, including supporting the delivery of the ChatHealth texting service, Safeguarding and School Nursing Requests for Support.
You will be Registered Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner School
You will be able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention.
Applications from candidates who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of.
Main duties of the job
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