Community Staff Nurse

The Community Staff Nurse will support Health Visitors and School Nurses in delivering high-quality, needs-led care across community settings including homes, schools and clinics. The role involves assessing health needs, planning and delivering care, and evaluating outcomes for children and families.

The post holder will contribute to safeguarding, early intervention, and health promotion, working collaboratively with partners to address physical, emotional and social wellbeing. They will manage a delegated caseload, maintain accurate records, and support service delivery in line with local and national priorities, ensuring care is inclusive, evidence-based and responsive to need.

Closing- 4th May 2026

Shortlisting- 6th May 2026

Interview- 14th and 15th May 2026

To work as part of the Public Health Nursing Service (0–5 and 5–19) delivering the Healthy Child Programme through a progressive universal model. The post holder will provide evidence-based nursing care, undertake health needs assessments, and deliver targeted interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families. The role focuses on reducing health inequalities, safeguarding children, and working in partnership with families, communities and multi-agency professionals to achieve positive outcomes.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Whitaker Job title: Team Leader for School Nursing Email address: helen.whitaker@bdct.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07881897739