Specialist Health VisitorSchool Nurse Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

What Makes This Role Exciting

• Clinical Leadership: Youll be the go-to clinical expert leading the way in the 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service. Your knowledge and passion will ensure high-quality evidence-based care for children with SEND setting new standards for excellence.
• Service Development: Develop and implement innovative strategies and programmes that transform Health Visiting and School Nurse services. Your work will directly improve outcomes for children and families making every day rewarding.
• Collaboration & Partnership: Forge strong links with partner agencies including Specialist Childrens Services Early Years providers and the voluntary sector. Youll be at the centre of a robust support network ensuring families get the help they need.
• Education & Training: Lead SEND education and training across the service empowering colleagues and students to deliver outstanding SEND support. Your mentorship will inspire the next generation of health professionals.
• Quality Improvement: Use data and reporting to drive service development analyse impact and champion continuous improvement. Your insights will help shape policy and practice provision
• Advocacy: Be a champion for equality and diversity. Youll ensure every child and vulnerable adult is protected respected and given the best possible chance to thrive.
• Personal & Professional Growth: Enjoy opportunities for ongoing development leadership training and presenting your work at conferences. Youll be supported to reach your full potential while making a lasting impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and management for early identification assessment and support for children with SEND and their families.
• Develop referral pathways and work closely with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Provide advanced clinical advice and hold a small caseload for families needing extra support.
• Champion partnership working communication and information sharing.
• Undertake audits research and present findings to drive quality improvement.
• Uphold the highest standards of clinical governance confidentiality and safeguarding.

What Youll need to succeed:

• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification Health Visiting or School Nursing.
• Experience working with SEND families and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Leadership skills effective communication and a passion for service improvement.
• Commitment to safeguarding equality and outstanding customer experience.

The Service & Team:

The Role:

This is a public/customer-facing role where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern:

Hours are as stated and the working pattern can be discussed at interview. Your base will be New County Hall Truro with opportunities of hybrid working from other bases or home.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What youll get in return:

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

a competitive salary.

a defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions - including NHS pensions.

a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

• NMC professional fees paid.

Additional Information:

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact

Faye Young Service Manager for Clinical Practice Email:

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.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.