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Job summary

Main area
Nurse
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent: full time
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (term time)
Job ref
220-WHT-3947
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Multiply sites across Barnet
Town
Barnet
Salary
£55,524 - £62,652 PA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/06/2026 23:59

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Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

School Nurse Team Lead

NHS AfC: Band 7

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Job overview

School Nurse Team Lead 

Whittington – Barnet; Full time.

We are looking for a motivated practitioner with excellent communication skills, strong clinical leadership, and the ability to work independently whilst leading a team.  

If this is you Barnet would love to hear from you.

The Barnet 0-19 Service recently joined Whittington Health, which delivers community services across five London boroughs. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation and an expanding team. Come and join us on our journey as we develop our staff and enhance our offer to families.  

Barnet is a large, richly diverse and dynamic borough and as a member of the 0-19 Service, you will be part of a team that is integrated, friendly and supportive. We deliver a local needs-led service ensuring that children and their families are at the heart of what we do. There are opportunities to work differently with many partners on different sites. We have some great networks supporting inclusivity and well-being, all in a borough which is easy to navigate, central and reached via lots of different routes. 

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Team Leader within the Barnet School Nurse team. If you are an experienced school nurse, we would really like to hear from you.

We are looking for experienced practitioners who want to work in and lead a school nurse team in Barnet.  We are looking for warm and engaging candidates with strong leadership skills and a sound understanding of the Healthy Child Programme, and Safeguarding policy and practice. We can offer you a friendly supportive team to manage, regular supervision and extensive evidence-based training with skills practice to carry out your role.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Education/qualifications

Essential criteria

  • SCPHN School nurse professional qualification with entry to 3rd part of NMC register
  • Educated to level 6 or 7 degree

Desirable criteria

  • Management experience in a health setting
  • Practice assessor/ supervisor training

Skills and ability

Essential criteria

  • Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral
  • Willingness to lead and support management of change
  • Ability to set personal and team objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations
  • High levels of clinical skills, with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs,
  • High levels of clinical skills, with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs,
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Ability to manage other members of staff and delegate work appropriately and safely

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

  • Awareness of Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
  • Ability to apply research to practice
  • Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance relating to children and young people 
  • Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria
  • School Nurse professional qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent
  • Management experience in a health service setting
  • Practice Assessor/Supervisor Training

Skills and ability

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral
  • High levels of clinical skills, with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs, including the delivery of public health programmes.
  • Ability to set personal and team objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations.
  • Ability to manage other members of staff and delegate work appropriately and safely.
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children

Knowledge and expereince

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance relating to children
  • Ability to apply research to practice
  • Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
  • Knowledge of infection control standards
  • Awareness of Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerDisability confident committed

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Shirley Phillips
Job title
School Nurse Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07467260535
Additional information

Joan Anderson 

[email protected] 

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