Position reference: 50145235
Directorate: Public Health and Communities | Service: 0-19 Public Health Nursing
Salary: £47,181 - £50,269
Working Arrangements: Monday-Friday
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Permanent
We are happy to talk flexible working arrangements with you, please get in touch.
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Closing date: 06/03/2026 at 23:59
The successful candidate will be required to speak English to an appropriate standard.
This post requires an Enhanced DBS Check
If you are currently living overseas or have lived overseas in the last five years please be aware, if you are the preferred candidate for the post, you will be required to apply for an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in. If you experience difficulty in obtaining an overseas criminal record check please email dbs@barnsley.gov.uk
When applying, please ensure you are prepared to start work with all the necessary legal documents, such as a valid visa, relevant to the type of work you will be undertaking. Please be aware that our organisation does not possess a Home Office license and, as a result, is unable to provide sponsorship for anyone seeking a visa as a skilled or temporary migrant worker.
Pensions Regulations have provisions to reduce pension payments in certain circumstances of those who return to work within local government service. If you are in receipt of a pension upon commencing employment with the authority, this may affect your pension entitlements and you should therefore seek advice from the relevant Pensions Authority.
At Barnsley Council you can start a career that makes a real difference to people’s lives, helping our council and residents to be the best they can be.
We’re an award-winning council and one of the biggest employers in the borough, supporting around 243,000 people. We put people at the heart of everything we do, and that includes our employees. As part of the team, we offer lots of benefits and rewards to support you to thrive and grow, like flexible working, employee discounts, support for your health and wellbeing, and opportunities for training and development to grow your career and develop your skills.
There’s so much happening in our thriving borough, and now’s the perfect time to join our excellent Public Health and Communities team as we work to make Barnsley the place of possibilities.
- We’re an award-winning team and one of the biggest employers in the borough supporting around 243,000 people.
- Working at Barnsley Council means being part of a team that makes a real difference to people’s lives, where you can develop the skills you need to make change happen.
- If you join the team you’ll receive great pay alongside an excellent pension scheme. With flexible working we’ll also support your work/life balance, helping you to adjust your hours and take time off when you need it.
- We’ll help you to develop your career and grow your skills with opportunities for training and development.
- There’s so much happening in our thriving borough and your talent and skills will help us make Barnsley the place of possibilities.
- Key to our success is working with our residents, partners, businesses and organisations and building these partnerships to bring about change in Barnsley.
About the Post:
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?
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.
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.
About the role
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 client’s self-efficacy, personal growth, and capacity for sensitive, responsive parenting. The programme utilises a range of evidence-based tools, methods and materials to promote positive parent-infant attachment and healthy family relationships. The role requires highly developed specialist knowledge and skills underpinned by theoretical frameworks, advanced clinical training and experience.
The successful candidate will sit within the FNP team and will be integrated within the 0-19 PHNS working alongside health visitors, school nurses and skill mix practitioners and will be required to:
· 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.
· Deliver the healthy child programme and support their clients to access and engage with local services and agencies such as Neighborhood 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.
· Work effectively in potentially highly distressing and emotional circumstances, such as safeguarding children or family breakdown, maintaining focus on child outcomes and psychological safety.
· Demonstrate flexibility and resilience by working independently as a lone worker and collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to team learning, supervision, and data analysis to inform service improvement.
· Manage a caseload of up to 25 clients.
About you
To succeed in this role, you should be a trained family nurse, or an experienced NMC registered nurse or midwife with significant background in child health, public health, or related areas. Direct experience supporting children and families, especially those from diverse or disadvantaged backgrounds, is essential. You must possess comprehensive knowledge of child safeguarding, as well as extensive expertise handling sensitive and complex family situations. Building supportive, respectful, and culturally sensitive relationships even under emotional or difficult circumstances is key.
Outstanding communication, facilitation, and motivational abilities are required, along with the capacity to present complex information clearly and thoughtfully. You should be adept at managing emotionally challenging scenarios while keeping the child's needs central. Strong skills in prioritising tasks, assessing risks, and problem-solving in uncertain or complex contexts are crucial. Your approach should remain focused on positive outcomes for children, utilising motivational and strengths-based techniques to empower families.
Please use the documents below to help support you with your application form.
Job Profile: Family Nurse Profile.docx
Vacancy Exposure Profile: Exposure profile.docx
Help with your application form
Please ensure you view the job profile for this role, as you will need to demonstrate in your application form how you meet the required criteria.
We welcome the opportunity to have a chat about the role and are happy to address any questions you may have about flexible working arrangements, including as a result of caring responsibilities.
We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued and everyone truly feels able to be themselves. If you have any support needs during the recruitment process, please let us know.
CV's are not accepted for this role.
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