We are excited to offer a unique opportunity to join HCRG Care Group as an SCPHN School Nurse. This full‑time (37.5 hours per week) fixed‑term 12‑month training contract allows you to gain registration on the NMC SCPHN register and a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health Practice, delivered in partnership with Oxford Brookes University. It combines high‑quality online academic learning with hands‑on clinical experience within our School Aged Health Service in Bath and North East Somerset. This role supports the health and wellbeing of school‑aged children and young people in a community setting.
The post is offered at Band 5, point 1. Applications close on 10th June and shortlisting takes place 11th June. Interviews will be held face‑to‑face in July. The starting date is January 2027.
Responsibilities
You will support the health and wellbeing of school‑aged children and young people by providing nursing care, health education, and public health interventions within the School Aged Health Service.
Essential qualifications
* NMC nursing registration – any form of nursing
* Nursing degree (second‑ or first‑class classification)
* Evidence of recent study to degree level (within 5 years)
Desirable qualifications
* Experience working with school‑aged children or public health 0-19 nursing teams
* Community nursing experience
* Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme
Package and benefits
* £32,073 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
* Membership of My Reward Hub, offering discounts on everyday purchases, cashback, vouchers, etc.
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
* Online and face‑to‑face help with mental and physical wellbeing, including healthy recipes, activity challenges, post‑trauma support, legal, debt, life management help, career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture that encourages ideas to help deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
* Work for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited, established in 2006, is one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services. We work with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes, delivering adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services, as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people. We’re a Disability Confident company and work to provide inclusive facilities, environment adjustments and technical solutions.
All applicants are subject to a safer recruitment process, including criminal record disclosure and vetting checks.
For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Marian Judd or Caroline Hodgkinson.
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