Employer Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Telford and Wrekin 0-19 Service -Leonard Street Town Telford Salary £49,387 – £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 06/11/2026 23:59
Specialist Community Public Health School Nurse Team Leader
NHS AfC: Band 7
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We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.
We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.
Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.
By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.
Job overview
Are you looking to develop your leadership skills within a 0-19 Public Health School Nursing service and gain experience of working more strategically in the planning and delivery of the service?
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Specialist Community Public Health School Nurse to join its well-established 0–19 Public Health Nursing Service in Telford and Wrekin as a Band 7 School Nurse Team Leader.
You will have full operational and line management responsibility for the school nursing team. This will include managing staff absence and service priorities, conducting appraisals, overseeing the budget, and monitoring team performance against key performance indicators (KPIs).
You will have excellent communication and relational skills, be solution focussed and strengthens based with a sound understanding of professional issues and a confidence in your critical decision-making ability.
The role is 37.5 per week on an all-year-round contract. You must be able to travel and having access to your own car is recommended.
Main duties of the job
- To deliver innovative; evidence-based School Nursing Services to a defined population and develop Public Health initiatives to meet the needs of the population served.
- To lead the implementation, development and evaluation of the School Nursing Service in line with the agreed service specification determined by Commissioners, within Telford and Wrekin, for all families with children aged 5-19 years (19-25 years SEND).
- Work in close partnership with other professionals and organisations to deliver a public health model of care, making a significant contribution to improving health, and reducing inequalities in access to services and in health outcomes.
- To be responsible for all issues relating to clinical practice together with the Service Manager within the School Nursing Teams.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life – and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
- NMC Registered Nurse
- Speciality Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) School Nurse
- Leadership qualification e.g. NHS Leadership Academy Leadership Programme or experience (willing to undertake training)
- Evidence of continued professional development short courses in topics such as leadership, safeguarding, domestic abuse, community development, sexual health and emotional health
Experience
- Significant post registration experience in school nursing and caseload management
- Demonstrable knowledge of child protection and management
- Experience of managing change
Knowledge and skills
- IT skills and computer literacy
- High level of understanding of current professional issues
- Line management experience and knowledge of HR policies and procedures
- Experience in management of change with evidence-based practices
- Ability to undertake critical appraisal of research
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700 or the ‘going rate’ for the job you will be doing (whichever is higher). For a limited number of clinical posts ( listed here ), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher ). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Sam Garratt Job title 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service Manager Email address Samanthagarratt@nhs.net Telephone number 07974434818
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