School Nurse Team Leader: Sponsorship Available

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

**School Nurse Team Leader**

3x part time posts available. Hours available are flexible and will be discussed at interview.

This is a rare and exciting opportunity for SCPHN School Nurses to progress to a senior leadership role.

Due to recent investment there are several School Nurse team leader posts available in Gloucestershire. The vacancies are all permanent and part time, based in various locations across the county.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the leadership team of our innovative and progressive School Nursing Service.

Are you a dynamic Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) seeking a new challenge? Do you have the passion to be a leader and to inspire colleagues in the specialist field of public health nursing; working with children and young people to improve their health? Do you have a special interest in children with special educational needs and disabilities? If any of these questions excite you, get in touch!

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Operational and Professional Heads of School Nursing and the senior leadership team to:

  • Deliver operationally efficient and effective services
  • Co-ordination of the team to ensure continuity and the most effective use of resources
  • Collaborate with colleagues using a Quality Improvement approach to identify and implement change to drive quality and effective delivery of care
  • Provide strong professional leadership within the locality partnership working with children and families
  • Ensure high quality service is delivered to meet the needs of the local population with knowledge and understanding of community assets available to them
  • Adopt corporate and clinical governance and best practice principles in service delivery
  • Ensure effective performance management using audit and evaluation tools, monitoring, reporting mechanisms and other systems
  • Take the lead on service innovation and development to meet the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
  • Lead on quality improvements to ensure the school nursing service is agile and able to adapt to the needs of families of children with special educational needs and disabilities.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are described in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • SCPHN(SN) qualification is essential
  • Leadership and Management qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Considerable experience of leading and implementing service development initiatives, utilising change management and project management frameworks and tools
  • Experience of meeting the competing demands of a caseload of children with complex health needs and the operational governance demands of a skill mixed team.
  • Previous experience of challenging others practice or service provision, within and outside the organisation and escalating concerns as appropriate.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of public health nursing particularly in relation to school aged children
  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the health needs of communities and wider determinants of health that impact equality

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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

Closing Date: 22 November 2026

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