Senior School Nurse

We a fixed term vacancy due to maternity leave in the School Nursing Service in Gloucestershire. This post is 3 days, 22.5 hours per week and fixed term until June 2027. The successful candidate will be based in Stroud locality as part of the East School Nursing team so will be expected to work across Cotswolds and Stroud localities. This is an exciting opportunity for us to develop the leadership of our innovative and progressive School Nursing Service. Are you a dynamic Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) seeking a new challenge? Do you have the passion to be a leader and to inspire colleagues in the specialist field of public health nursing; working with children and young people to improve their health? We work in collaboration with children and young people developing services that they want. We provide place based and digital first interventions. We have developed social media platforms and use ChatHealth in response to requests of young people and families. We take a trauma informed approach to planning and delivering care, working in partnership with children, young people and families ensuring shared decision making and goal setting through restorative practice. We work in skill-mixed teams ensuring the right person is offering the care/interventions that are needed. We provide a robust leadership structure ensuring all colleagues are supported with the SCPHN taking the lead in triage and allocation of workload.

Health and wellbeing of ourselves and our colleagues is important. Working for our NHS Foundation Trust offers many staff benefits and the School Nursing Service supports the mental and emotional wellbeing of all our colleagues., We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust. Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.