School Nurse Trainee Band 5, Alness - HGH16899

Job Description

Post Title: School Nurse Trainee

Location: Alness
Hours: 37 hours per week
Duration: Permanent
Salary:  Band 5 £30,229 - £37,664 p.a.

Salary placing will normally be at the first point of the scale.

Contact Person: Susan Laidlaw tel:

Job Purpose:

To facilitate and empower school aged children to engage in healthy lifestyles through the promotion of health screening and detecting for signs of ill health and/ or abnormality and engaging in anticipatory and supportive care applying the Principles of Public Health Nursing/School Nursing:

1. Identify Health Needs
2. Stimulate the Awareness of Health Needs
3. Facilitate Health Enhancing Activity
4. Influence Policies Affecting Health

Please APPLY ONLINE. If you are unable to apply online and you wish to request an offline application pack, please contact Business Support, T: (24 hour voicemail) quoting the post reference number above.

Please find the Job Description below.

The Highland Council understands that diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, and being fair and inclusive. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, representative of the communities we serve and particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be under-represented in our workforce.

As a disability confident employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria requirements for the post.

Shortlisted applicants will normally be contacted by email, unless otherwise stated. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

Requirements

Current first level registration

Specialist Public Health Nurse/School Nursing post registration qualification

Daily driving through urban/rural areas and in all weather conditions