Student Health Visitor (Temp)

The Service & Team:

We deliver Health Visiting and School Nursing services across six localities within Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly covering a diverse geography from the Devon border including Bude Launceston and Liskeard through to Helston and Penzance.

We provide an evidencebased familycentred public health service focused on identifying health needs inequality and vulnerability within families and communities.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a supportive and forwardthinking service. You will work collaboratively with colleagues and partners to meet the needs of local communities and improve outcomes for children and young people across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

The course embraces a family/child/workplace-centred 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 socio-cultural 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.

The Role:

This is a full-time fixed term post with a Band 5 AfC salary. Please note that this is a training contract starting the beginning of September 2026. 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 full-time course to complete the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) in Health Visiting at University West of England (UWE). Please note that this will involve travel to UWE in Bristol on occasions and some overnight stays. The course combines taught modules at Bristol and/or Plymouth 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 vacancy post within Cornwall Council. Seconded Students will return to their previous role if there are no vacancies or unsuccessful at interview.

Location: St Austell Newquay or Bodmin.

If you need more information please dont hesitate to contact

Service Manager for Clinical Practice : Faye Young

Or Practice Teachers

Health Visiting: Kayleigh Orchard

Rachael Turner

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 widerA 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.
• Can demonstrate a classified honours degree at 2:2 or above either in nursing or midwiferyor a nursing diploma with recent completed masters level academic study.

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 restorative supervision.

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

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.

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 on

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.