Job summary
Are you looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic and innovative 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service delivered within an award-winning council focused on placing local people at the heart of everything we do, listening to and doing good for our communities?
To ensure continued provision of Public Health Nursing services within Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council we are seeking to recruit a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) who is passionate about wanting to lead and support the provision of high-quality services.
The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based, licensed programme that forms the specialist level of the healthy child programme for young parents and their babies.
The aim of the programme is to improve antenatal health, child health and development and parental economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families.
FNP is voluntary for eligible clients and offered in a strengths-based, trauma-informed way to support engagement. The programme is offered to first-time parents, and while the mother is the primary client, fathers and partners are actively encouraged to participate.
The Family Nurse role is responsible for delivering all aspects of the healthy child programme (HCP), with a focus on fostering the clients self-efficacy, personal growth, and capacity for sensitive, responsive parenting.
Main duties of the job
Undertake specialist training in all elements of the FNP programme and will need to achieve the family nurse competencies as defined at national level. This includes mandatory training in areas such as motivational interviewing, dyadic observation, parental emotional connectedness, adolescent brain development, child development, human ecology, and attachment theory, as well as ongoing professional learning and reflective supervision. Deliverthe healthy child programme and support their clients to access and engage with local services and agencies such as Neighbourhood Health Teams, Best Start Family Hubs, education, and primary care. Develop and apply high level specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme, integrating evidence-based approaches and continually building expertise through team learning and supervision.
Establish therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively with families experiencing complex situations, using programme tools and materials to achieve positive outcomes.
Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information.
Use strengths-based, trauma-informed, solution-focused, and motivational interviewing skills to overcome barriers to engagement and to promote behaviour change, supporting client self-efficacy and growth.
About us
Here at Barnsley Council, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and taking pride in what we do. We're proud to deliver the 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service, which is at the forefront of care provision for the children and young people of Barnsley. We recognise that our greatest asset is our employees, which is why for all successful nursing candidates we will recognise your NHS continuous service for the purposes of annual leave and sickness absence, and you can continue to access the NHS Pension Scheme if you are an existing scheme member.
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Details
Date posted
20 February 2026
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£47,181 to £50,269 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
F
Job locations
Worsbrough Primary Healthcare Centre
Powell Street
Worsbrough
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S70 5NZ
Job description
Job responsibilities
Deliver the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) intensive, preventative home visiting programme to vulnerable, young women expecting their first baby, developing therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively with complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme within the 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service and in line with the FNP licensing requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Deliver the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) intensive, preventative home visiting programme to vulnerable, young women expecting their first baby, developing therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively with complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme within the 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service and in line with the FNP licensing requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
* Degree level 6 or equivalent professional qualification
* Evidence of continued professional development in safeguarding children to level 3-4
Desirable
* Level 7 or equivalent
* Specialist Community Public Health Nurse-Health Visitor
* Willing to undertake SCPHN additional field of practice (extended practice course)
Additional Requirements
Essential
* To undertake the full learning programme of Family Nurse learning programme, including some out of area residential training
* Committed to principles of FNP and a strong desire to support its effective implementation in Barnsley
* Willing to support the wider service with enhanced parenting programmes for vulnerable parents through the provision of specialist supervision and training
* Willing to work flexibly in accordance with policies and procedures to meet the operational needs of the council.
* Willing to undertake training and continuous professional development in connection with the post.
* Work in accordance with the council's vision, priorities, values and behaviours.
* Able to undertake any travel in connection with the post.
Experience
Essential
* Significant experience of integrated working/ multi-agency working in community settings
* Significant experience of public health related work/ leading public health initiatives with vulnerable young parents/teenage parents
* Significant experience of working therapeutically and motivationally to support behaviour change with hard-to-reach vulnerable families
* Significant experience of assessment of mother/infant interaction and supporting positive attachment between mother/main carer giver and infant
* Significant and recent experience of initiating and leading the early help processes for children and families
* Significant and recent experience of home visiting, working with vulnerable children and families in deprived communities and with complex safeguarding work.
* Experience of developing and leading training
* Experience of delivering and receiving clinical and safeguarding supervision
General and Special Knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge of the current Public Health agenda in particular the Healthy Child Programme, understanding the difference between strength based, motivational approaches and advice giving.
* Knowledge and understanding of National and local safeguarding policies and procedures. And sound knowledge of safeguarding children.
* Knowledge and understanding of the requirements needed to maintain professional standards in line with NMC codes
* Knowledge and understanding of the evidence base and principle of the Family Nurse Partnership programme and a strong desire to see it succeed.
* Knowledge and understanding of clinical and safeguarding supervision
Desirable
* Knowledge and understanding of attachment theory and/or behavioural change theory
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to actively sustain engagement work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children
* Ability to use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to maintain engagement of hard-to-reach families and successfully enable families to develop behaviour change strategies
* Able to work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g., safeguarding children or family breakdown, Intimate Partner Violence.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information.
* Skills in reflective practice with the ability to maintain strong professional boundaries in complex work.
* Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
* Demonstratable skills in delivering effective clinical decision making in complex scenarios and to make decisions when there are conflicts and tensions.
* Good IT skills and the ability to use Microsoft applications to prepare reports, send and receive emails and present and share learning of the FNP programme to others
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
* Degree level 6 or equivalent professional qualification
* Evidence of continued professional development in safeguarding children to level 3-4
Desirable
* Level 7 or equivalent
* Specialist Community Public Health Nurse-Health Visitor
* Willing to undertake SCPHN additional field of practice (extended practice course)
Additional Requirements
Essential
* To undertake the full learning programme of Family Nurse learning programme, including some out of area residential training
* Committed to principles of FNP and a strong desire to support its effective implementation in Barnsley
* Willing to support the wider service with enhanced parenting programmes for vulnerable parents through the provision of specialist supervision and training
* Willing to work flexibly in accordance with policies and procedures to meet the operational needs of the council.
* Willing to undertake training and continuous professional development in connection with the post.
* Work in accordance with the council's vision, priorities, values and behaviours.
* Able to undertake any travel in connection with the post.
Experience
Essential
* Significant experience of integrated working/ multi-agency working in community settings
* Significant experience of public health related work/ leading public health initiatives with vulnerable young parents/teenage parents
* Significant experience of working therapeutically and motivationally to support behaviour change with hard-to-reach vulnerable families
* Significant experience of assessment of mother/infant interaction and supporting positive attachment between mother/main carer giver and infant
* Significant and recent experience of initiating and leading the early help processes for children and families
* Significant and recent experience of home visiting, working with vulnerable children and families in deprived communities and with complex safeguarding work.
* Experience of developing and leading training
* Experience of delivering and receiving clinical and safeguarding supervision
General and Special Knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge of the current Public Health agenda in particular the Healthy Child Programme, understanding the difference between strength based, motivational approaches and advice giving.
* Knowledge and understanding of National and local safeguarding policies and procedures. And sound knowledge of safeguarding children.
* Knowledge and understanding of the requirements needed to maintain professional standards in line with NMC codes
* Knowledge and understanding of the evidence base and principle of the Family Nurse Partnership programme and a strong desire to see it succeed.
* Knowledge and understanding of clinical and safeguarding supervision
Desirable
* Knowledge and understanding of attachment theory and/or behavioural change theory
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to actively sustain engagement work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children
* Ability to use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to maintain engagement of hard-to-reach families and successfully enable families to develop behaviour change strategies
* Able to work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g., safeguarding children or family breakdown, Intimate Partner Violence.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information.
* Skills in reflective practice with the ability to maintain strong professional boundaries in complex work.
* Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
* Demonstratable skills in delivering effective clinical decision making in complex scenarios and to make decisions when there are conflicts and tensions.
* Good IT skills and the ability to use Microsoft applications to prepare reports, send and receive emails and present and share learning of the FNP programme to others
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (BMBC)
Address
Worsbrough Primary Healthcare Centre
Powell Street
Worsbrough
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S70 5NZ
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Employer details
Employer name
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (BMBC)
Address
Worsbrough Primary Healthcare Centre
Powell Street
Worsbrough
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S70 5NZ
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