School Health Staff Nurse (Safeguarding team) - NHS

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

We are excited to announce an opportunity for a Band 5 Nurse to join our School Nursing Safeguarding Team on a fixed term contract . As part of our commitment to growing and developing our workforce, we are also aiming to retain the successful candidate and support their progression into the SCPHN (Specialist Community Public Health Nurse) School Nurse pathway.

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to apply for a funded SCPHN School Nurse training programme, starting in January 2026, through an internal interview and selection process. This position provides a unique chance to be part of a dynamic team while building a long-term career in school nursing.

The team is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated nurse who is passionate about the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme and safeguarding children and young people. It is desirable that candidates have experience working with children in a community setting and possess a good understanding of public health.

We are recruiting with a vision to train and develop future SCPHN School Nurses within our service.

Main duties of the job

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Additionally, the role offers the opportunity to visit other teams within the service, enabling broader exposure and professional development.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder will be an integral part of a multi-skilled school nurse team, working collaboratively to deliver a public health-focused, needs-led, and equitable service to children and young people in Lewisham. They will work closely with school staff, community paediatricians, health visitors, GPs, and other professionals and agencies to ensure effective service delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Recording and monitoring services delivered and providing updates to the Team Leader.
• Attending child protection case conferences, core group meetings, and other safeguarding-related discussions as required.
• Supporting the delivery of health promotion programmes and contributing to wider service areas within both school and community settings.

This role provides an opportunity to play a vital part in safeguarding and promoting the health and well-being of children and young people.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• RGN and /or RSCN RN child Branch degree/diploma
• Evidence of Professional knowledge about nursing services for the school aged population

• ENB 998
• Health Promotion training
• Mentorship training

Experience, Skills and abilities

• Previous experience in working with children, and in school nursing
• Experience in safeguarding children.
• Experience in attending case conferences, child in need meetings, completing health assessments and reports to this regard. Ability to complete a LAC assessment.
• Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing in an effective way with people from a variety of backgrounds and different ages
• Good organisational skills
• Able to prioritise
• Awareness of the role of the school nurse –
• Knowledge of the DH drivers for the delivery of a public health service for the school age population. Eg. Childhood measurement programme Healthy weight healthy lives Every child Matters Understand “Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives” strategy.
• Local influences in Lewisham e.g Children and Young people’s plan 2009-15 Aware of NMC code of conduct
• Willing to participate in developing professional / practice guidelines and standards
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
• Recent previous experience within a comparable role
• Competent IT skills – including use of email
• Excellent interpersonal skills and good communication skills, including with children and young people
• Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
• Ability to work contracted hours

• Group working skills
• Health promotion skills
• Health promotion course
• Working in enuresis clinic
• Delivering training to school staff on Managing children with health conditions in the school.

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.