HCRG Care Group
Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nursing (BAND 6)
The closing date is 29 November 2026

Job summary
Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nursing (BAND 6) 22.5 hours per week | Term Time Only | Based at Paulton Memorial Hospital
Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 FTE (Band 6 AFC) plus NHS Pension

Make a lasting difference to children and young people's lives

Looking for a role that combines flexibility, autonomy and the opportunity to make a real difference? Join our Child and Family Public Health Service as a Band 6 SCPHN School Nurse and help shape the health and wellbeing of children and young people across Bath and North East Somerset. With 22.5 hours per week, term-time only working and a supportive team around you, this is an opportunity to build a rewarding career while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Whether you're an experienced School Nurse or looking for a role that offers greater work-life balance, you'll find a rewarding career with us.

Why join our team?
At HCRG Care Group, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Build meaningful relationships with children, young people and families.
• Lead public health initiatives that make a real impact in schools and local communities.
• Work as part of a highly supportive multi-disciplinary team.
• Develop your clinical and leadership skills through excellent learning and development opportunities.
• Enjoy the benefits of a 22.5-hour, term-time only role, helping you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

What you'll be doing
As a School Nurse, you'll manage a caseload of schools and play a key role in delivering the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme. You will:

• Support children and young people to achieve their best possible health and wellbeing outcomes.
• Identify needs early and deliver timely interventions to prevent problems from escalating.
• Work in partnership with schools, families and multi-agency colleagues to reduce health inequalities using a needs led approach.
• Lead on safeguarding, Early Help and health promotion activities where appropriate.
• Deliver School Health Needs Assessments, individual health assessments, drop-ins, health education and targeted interventions.
• Promote emotional wellbeing, physical health and resilience across school-aged populations.

Every day brings variety, challenge and the opportunity to make a positive difference.

What we're looking for
You will be:

• A registered SCPHN School Nurse.
• Passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people.
• Confident working independently and managing a caseload.
• Skilled at building positive relationships with schools, families and partner agencies.
• Committed to delivering compassionate, evidence-based care.

Find out more
We'd love to have an informal conversation about the role.
Please contact:
Sally Milverton - Sally.Milverton@hcrgcaregroup.com
Roanna Ellis - Roanna.Ellis@hcrgcaregroup.com

Package Description
As a Band 6 SCPHN School Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our BaNES Children's Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £39,959 - £48,117 FTE salary - 3 days per week term time only (Band 6 AfC Salary) 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.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
A registered SCPHN School Nurse, passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people, confident working independently and managing a caseload.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: HCRG Care Group
Address: HCRG Care Group, Paulton Memorial Hospital, BS39 7SB, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Recruitment Team, HCRG Care Group, ask.hr@hcrgcaregroup.com

Date posted: 10 November 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 1573789608
Job locations: HCRG Care Group, Paulton Memorial Hospital, BS39 7SB, United Kingdom

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