Please note that the locations for this role are: St Austell, Newquay or Bodmin
Are you ready for an amazing opportunity? Do you want to make a difference to children, young people and families in Cornwall? We are very excited to announce that we have Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Student Health Visitor training posts available for applications starting in September 2026. This is a fantastic opportunity for a fully funded training programme to qualify as a registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor). Open to all qualified Nurses and Midwives registered with the NMC. We provide supportive placements with allocated practice teachers and supervisors to support your learning journey.
Main duties of the job
Please note that the locations for this role are: St Austell, Newquay or Bodmin
We deliver Health Visiting and School Nursing services across six localities within Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, covering a diverse geography from the Devon border including Bude, Launceston and Liskeard, through to Helston and Penzance.
We provide an evidence‑based, family‑centred public health service, focused on identifying health needs, inequality and vulnerability within families and communities.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a supportive and forward‑thinking service. You will work collaboratively with colleagues and partners to meet the needs of local communities and improve outcomes for children and young people across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
The course embraces a family/child/workplace‑centred public health role with individuals, families, and populations, and focuses on improving health and tackling health inequalities. The approach requires you to work within a dynamic socio‑cultural and service provision context across traditional boundaries, to network and develop services in partnership with service users, other professionals, and the voluntary sector. You'll learn to lead, assess, work collaboratively, evaluate public health provision, and accept responsibility and accountability for the safe, effective, and efficient management of that provision.
About us
We offer a supportive supervision framework where you will be supported with your clinical caseload management, safeguarding children supervision and clinical restorative supervision.
We offer a clear and supported career pathway and are committed to developing our own workforce, supporting staff to progress and grow within the service.
Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
* Defined benefit pension scheme, based on career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
* Generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
* National award‑winning employee health and wellbeing programme.
* Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Job responsibilities
The Service & Team:
We deliver Health Visiting and School Nursing services across six localities within Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, covering a diverse geography from the Devon border including Bude, Launceston and Liskeard, through to Helston and Penzance.
We provide an evidence‑based, family‑centred public health service, focused on identifying health needs, inequality and vulnerability within families and communities.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a supportive and forward‑thinking service. You will work collaboratively with colleagues and partners to meet the needs of local communities and improve outcomes for children and young people across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
The course embraces a family/child/workplace‑centred public health role with individuals, families, and populations, and focuses on improving health and tackling health inequalities. The approach requires you to work within a dynamic socio‑cultural and service provision context across traditional boundaries, to network and develop services in partnership with service users, other professionals, and the voluntary sector. You'll learn to lead, assess, work collaboratively, evaluate public health provision, and accept responsibility and accountability for the safe, effective, and efficient management of that provision.
The Role:
This is a full‑time fixed‑term post with a Band 5 AfC salary. Please note that this is a training contract starting the beginning of September 2026. For internal candidates, this is a secondment post for one year and for external candidates, you will be given a fixed‑term contract by Cornwall Council to undertake a full‑time course to complete the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) in Health Visiting at University West of England (UWE). This will involve travel to UWE in Bristol on occasions and some overnight stays. The course combines taught modules at Bristol and/or Plymouth and clinical placements in Cornwall. Successful completion of the course will lead to registration on Part 3 of the NMC register, an NMC recordable qualification so you will be eligible to apply for a SCPHN HV vacancy post within Cornwall Council. Seconded Students will return to their previous role if there are no vacancies or they are unsuccessful at interview.
What you’ll need to succeed:
* A qualified NMC registered children/adult/learning disability/mental health nurse or midwife with post‑qualification experience working with children and families and a keen interest in the wider A reflective and emotionally intelligent practitioner who makes good use of supervision and support who has a real interest in addressing the health needs of children, young people and their families.
* A person who is able to address challenging and sensitive issues with families in a clear and supportive way with the ability to be innovative and adaptive to meet the needs of the children, young people and families on our caseloads.
* Applicants must have a live registration on either the first or second part of the NMC register.
* Can demonstrate a classified honours degree at 2:2 or above either in nursing or midwifery or a nursing diploma with recent completed masters level academic study.
Additional Information:
Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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