School Nurse - 0-19 Service Waltham ForestThe closing date is 18 August 2026Job summaryAre you a qualified, NMC registered, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) School Nurse or are a student SCPHN School Nurse, qualifying in the next few months?
Do you have:
- Excellent all-round communication and listening skills.
- A willingness to train and progress.
- Ability to work autonomously and yet be part of a wider team.
- Qualities of leadership and be willing to take responsibility and make appropriate decisions.
- Ability to reflect, learn and build on previous experience and knowledge.
If yes, we would love to hear from you.
Come and join our friendly, welcoming, and inclusive 0-19 team and share our ambition to make a fundamental difference in improving the health and wellbeing of children and their families in Waltham Forest.
We offer our school nurses:
- Excellent pay package.
- Exceptional Health and Wellbeing support for all our staff.
- Comprehensive training and creative learning opportunities.
- Forums when you can feedback your concerns and ideas to improve our service. We have a commitment to listening to staff, and taking frontline direction so to practice in line with the highest clinical standards,
- Attractive NHS Pension Scheme, Annual Leave and much more.
For more benefits on offer please see Benefit flyer attached.
Applicants from the past six months need not reapply.
The Care Group reserves the right to close this advert early where we have received a high number of applications, and we encourage candidates to submit their applications promptly.
Main duties of the jobWe have within Waltham Forest excellent opportunities within our 0-19 team for innovative and motivated School Nurses who are keen to contribute to the further development of our service.
We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you, is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care, supporting children, young people and families have the best start in life delivered by outstanding people.
We have excellent partnership working with Waltham Forest Public Health Service, Primary and Secondary Schools, and General Practitioners to enable the Best Start in life and optimisation of health outcomes for children and young people.
Shortlisted candidates will be required to attend a face to face interview.
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group is an Inclusive Employer. We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in the job description. We also encourage people from all sections of our community to apply for jobs with us. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, disabled etc applicants because they are currently under-represented in our workforce.About usTower Hamlets GP Care Group (the Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
- Innovation and support for primary care
- Being a great place to work
- Integrating primary and community care
- Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
- Influencing improvements in health outcomes
DetailsDate posted: 04 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £45,953 to £54,254 a year Including Outer HCAS
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working, Term time hours
Reference number: E0136-26-0020
Job locations: Chingford Health Centre, 109 York Road, London, E4 8LF, United Kingdom
Job responsibilitiesKey Responsibilities:
- To manage a caseload of designated schools or area as the named health professional, with responsibility for the planning and delivery of the public health initiatives to the caseload.
- To be responsible for identifying need within a school or community through profiling.
- To use a child, young person public health approach to address health inequalities. Including the promotion of good health and the prevention of ill health in the school, supporting schools to manage children and young people with medical conditions
- To support the implementation of service development, standard setting, clinical audit and benchmarking, to deliver needs-led evidence-based care that supports the local and national priorities and policies.
- To be the principal point of contact for allocated schools in an area/locality. To develop and deliver co-operative working arrangements with schools that support healthy outcomes for children, young people and facilitate partnership working across schools and other partner organisations.
- To work with public health, local statutory, private and voluntary providers, and users to develop and promote practice that is accessible and responsive to all section of the schools community, ensuring that services are targeted to the most vulnerable groups and individuals to support social inclusion.
- To participate in the Early Health Assessment process and support the lead professional as appropriate.
- To provide and promote access to information and other services, to refer as appropriate
- To liaise and work in partnership with statutory and non-statutory agencies, and other health services colleagues.
- To identify children in need and children in need of protection, and work with other agencies to support vulnerable families.
- To adhere to current Local Safeguarding Board and London Child Protection Procedures.
- To participate in regular discussion with Clinical Locality and Safeguarding Team about children giving cause for concern.
- To maintain and develop clinical skills in response to the changing needs, including outbreaks of communicable diseases, programmes of immunisation and health promotion.
- To take responsibility for the delivery of extended health services and specialist community clinics as appropriate.
- To take the lead for a clinical area (to be agreed on appointment) and being responsible for maintaining up to date knowledge and passing information to the whole service. This may include a training role, producing and maintaining standards, protocols.
- To undertake any other duties as required by the Team Leader, SHWS Lead or Director, as required providing it is within the incumbents sphere of competence.
- To run training/advice sessions for colleagues, parents/carers, schools and other service users
Person SpecificationExperienceEssential- Experience of managing own caseload, supervising others and delivery training and education programmes.
KnowledgeEssential- Good understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and key areas of priorities within school nursing.
ExperienceEssential- Experience of working across organisational boundaries within Health/Social care and education.
QualificationsEssential- Registered Nurse, Children's Nurse, Midwife, or Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration and Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification in School Nursing (or due to qualify in the next 3 months).
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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.
Employer detailsEmployer name: Tower Hamlets GP Care Group
Address: Chingford Health Centre, 109 York Road, London, E4 8LF, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website
Employer contact detailsFor questions about the job, contact: Operational Lead
Zahrah Siddik
zahrah.siddik@nhs.net
07513823130
