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Job summary

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SCPHN Student Health Visitor/School nNurse
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
12 months (Fixed term)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week)
Job ref
220-WHT-4008
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Multiple Sties Barnet or Haringey
Town
Barnet or Haringey
Salary
This training salary is fixed £39.421
Closing
30/06/2026 23:59

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Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

Student (SCPHN) HV/SN

NHS AfC: Band 5

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Job overview

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Student  HV/SN

(Barnet or Haringey) 

Student Health Visitor or School Nurse 

Are you a Nurse of Midwife who would like a career in public health ?

Do you have a passion to support families?

Do you want drive down health inequalities?

If so Whittington  is the place to start.

We are recruiting for the Sept 26 and Jan 27  intake for Health Visitor and School Nurse  students. 

The course is full time for one year and will commence in Sept 26 or Jan 27 and comprises of 50% academic and 50% clinical placement in accordance with the University and Trust regulations. It is fully funded and salaried. You will be sponsored by Whittington Health and secure a place at  City University, Kings University or HERTS University  to complete their PG level ( 7) in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing and qualify as a Health Visitor or School Nurse. 

Course requirement for entry applicants will need to show evidence of study at level 7 and have 2:2 or higher. 

You will have a 12 month fixed term contract. 

This post is subject to standard recruitment processes. Successful candidates must be available to commence the course in  Sept 26 or Jan 27  on the start date. 

Main duties of the job

Whittington Health are offering an exciting opportunity to qualified nurses and midwives with NMC registration to become part of our progressive, innovative and integrated Health Visiting Service in  Barnet 

The Health Visitor/ School Nurse play a pivotal role in supporting the development of the child and family, with key principles in public health nursing.

  • They are part of a wider integrated multi disciplinary service for children in the Boroughs with a focus on  public health 
  • Delivering the healthy child programme to diverse communities. 
  •  Developing programmes of early intervention and prevention,
  • Reducing  health inequalities
  • Addressing health disparities 
  • Fostering equal access to health care  
  • Discussion health promotion like infant feeding topics 
  • Support children  and young people to reach their developmental milestones

 

Working for our organisation

Working for your organisation (‘About Us’)
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust  believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The course is full time for one year and will commence in Sept 26 or Jan 27  and comprises of 50% academic and 50% clinical placement in accordance with the University and Trust regulations. It is fully funded and salaried (Agenda for Change band 5). You will be sponsored by Whittington Health and secure a place at either  City University, Kings University or HERTS University  to complete their PG level ( 7) in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing and qualify as a Health Visitor or School Nurse.

 

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current NMC Registration for nursing or midwifery
  • Nursing / Midwifery Degree/ Post Grad Diploma/ DipHE qualification equivalent to 120 credits at level 6 (of the Higher Education Credit Framework for England) or evidence of previous education and learning to this level.
  • Evidence of level 7 training/learning within last 5 years.
  • Qualification 2:2 or above,

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of the Public Health role of contemporary health visiting/school nursing & working in community settings
  • • 1 year + post registration experience
  • Knowledge of local and national policies which influence the provision of health visiting /school nursing
  • Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
  • Current knowledge of safeguarding issues
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of involvement in the management of difficult situations and conflict resolution

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of academic ability to study independently at degree or postgraduate level
  • Good computer literacy skills e.g. Microsoft word, excel
  • Demonstrate knowledge of research - based practice
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of supporting equality and valuing diversity in own practice
  • Demonstrate ability to adapt to working within a changing environment
  • Have a flexible approach to team and autonomous working, acknowledging own limitations

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerDisability confident committed

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Shirley Phillips
Job title
School Health Lead - Barnet
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07467260535
Additional information

For further details please contact:

Shirley Phillips 

School Health Manager   (Barnet)

[email protected] 

07467260535

or 

Raquel Emmanuel-Morgan

Professional development Lead 

Haringey

[email protected] 

07425421572

 

 

 

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