Specialist Community Public Health Nurse

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nursing.

Join our team as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nurse.

Are you passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people? We have an exciting opportunity for you to make a real difference in the Bradford Community.

In this key role as a school nurse within our dedicated 5-19 years team, you will take the lead in providing exceptional care to our children and young people. You will be responsible for operational and strategic management of a defined caseload, ensuring that high-quality care is delivered in line with the Healthy Child Programme.

The successful candidate will need to be role models and demonstrate a willingness to lead, support and implement change, while adhering to our trust values, ‘we listen, we care, we deliver’. We pride ourselves on delivering high quality, patient centred care and encourage learning and training to get the best out of our employees. 

We are looking for people with energy and enthusiasm, as well as a high level of professional skill, knowledge of the current health agenda and a drive to change and transform our service to give the best for the children and young people of Bradford. 

To achieve this, you will be committed to working in partnership with other key agencies and supporting the rest of the multidisciplinary team. 

If you are ready to join us on this amazing rewarding journey and shape a better future for the children and young people in Bradford, we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To contribute to the development of School Nursing within a Public Health 0-19 Family Health Service which ensures the delivery of effective healthcare to a culturally diverse school aged population in Bradford and Airedale. 

Contribute to the leadership of a newly formed district wide School Nursing team and being part of a wider 0-19 family health service within 4 localities consisting of 0-5 teams with members of 0-19 Prevention and Early Help Service, leading more junior colleagues, supporting and challenging practice, nurturing the development of others to ensure that the service delivered is to a safe and high quality. 

Manage your own School Nursing caseload effectively acting as a role model to others within a skill mixed school nursing team, offering advice, support and guidance. 

Closing - 8th March 2026

Shortlisting - 9th March 2026

Interview -18th March 2026

Working for our organisation

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: - 

• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference 
• We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs 
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

• Increase mileage rates for > 3500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.