Student Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor or School Nurse)
Student Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor or School Nurse)
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Job Description
Are you ready for an amazing opportunity Do you want to make a difference to children young people and families in Cornwall. We are very excited to announce that we have Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Student Health Visitor or School Nurse training posts available for application starting in September 2025. This is a fantastic opportunity for a fully funded training programme to qualify as a registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor or School Nurse). Open to all qualified Nurses and Midwives registered with the NMC. We provide supportive placements with allocated practice teachers and supervisors to support your learning journey.
The Service & Team:
We deliver our health visiting and school nursing service across 6 Localities within the beautiful County of Cornwall. We work from the border with Devon covering areas such as Bude Launceston Liskeard down as far as Helston and Penzance.
Most teams are based together with our Early Help and Social Care colleagues and we all record on the same electronic record which really helps communication and coordination. We provide an evidence based family centre public health service which focuses on identifying health needs and vulnerability within the family and community.
This is a great opportunity to join our innovative and collaborative service to meet the needs of our local communities and to ensure there are improved outcomes for all our children and young people in the beautiful county of Cornwall and IOS.
The course embraces a family/child/workplacecentred public health role with individuals families and populations and focuses on improving health and tackling health inequalities. The approach requires you to work within a dynamic sociocultural and service provision context across traditional boundaries to network and develop services in partnership with service users other professionals and the voluntary sector. Youll learn to lead assess work collaboratively evaluate public health provision and accept responsibility and accountability for the safe effective and efficient management of that provision.
Public Health (Specialist Community Public Health Nursing) Postgraduate Diploma UWE Bristol: Courses
The Role:
This is a fulltime fixed term post with an Agenda for Change band 5 salary. Please note that this is a training contract starting the beginning of September 2025. For internal candidates this is a secondment post for one year and for external candidates you will be given a fixed term contract by Cornwall Council to undertake a oneyear fulltime course to complete the Post Graduate Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) in Health Visiting or School Nursing at University West of England (UWE). Please note that this will involve travel to UWE in Bristol and some overnight stays. The course combines taught modules at UWE and clinical placements in Cornwall. Successful completion of the course will lead to registration on Part 3 of the NMC register an NMC recordable qualification so you will be eligible to apply for a SCPHN HV/SN vacancy post within Cornwall Council. Seconded Students will return to their previous role if there are no vacancies or unsuccessful at interview.
If you need more information please dont hesitate to contact
School Nursing: Lisa Norwood / Joanne Godfrey
Health Visiting: Karen Wills / Kayleigh Orchard
This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
What youll need to succeed:
A qualified NMC registered children/adult/learning disability/mental health nurse or midwife with post qualification experience working with children and families and a keen interest in the wider determinants of health to tackle public health needs
A reflective and emotionally intelligent practitioner who makes good use of supervision and support who has a real interest in addressing the health needs of children young people and their families
Someone who is able to address challenging and sensitive issues with families in a clear and supportive way with the ability to be innovative and adaptive to meet the needs of the children young people and families on our caseloads
Applicants must have a live registration on either the first or second part of the NMC register and be able to demonstrate a classified honours degree at 2:2 or above either in nursing or midwifery or a diploma with evidence of recent academic study preferably at Masters level as the course is a level 7 academic programme
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What youll get in return:
We offer a supportive supervision framework where you will be supported with your clinical caseload management safeguarding children supervision and clinical supervision.
We have an excellent career pathway within our are keen to support and develop our own staff wishing to develop over the pathway
Additional Information:
The full role profile is attached here
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted please contact if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
About Us
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year.Find out more about working and volunteering for us.
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as parttime or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be foundhere flexible working options.
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds cultures and identities; e.g. race disability sex gender age religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children youngpeopleand adults at vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
