School Nurse

Location : Uppingham, Oakham, Rutland, LE15 9QE Salary : £30,589.91 per annum (actual) Hours : 36 hours per week, 33 weeks per year Contract : Permanent Closing date : Midnight, Thursday 24th September 2026 About This Role We are pleased to be further strengthening our School Health Centre by introducing a new nursing structure, creating new opportunities to support both staff and pupils more effectively. As part of this development, we are now recruiting for an additional School Nurse. This role will provide vital day-to-day clinical support within the Health Centre, enabling our nursing team to focus on delivering high-quality care, early intervention and strategic health promotion. Together, these changes will improve capacity, enhance continuity of care, and ensure our service remains responsive, proactive and centred on the needs of our school community. The Role At Uppingham, being a School Nurse, no two days look the same. You might begin the morning with a triage clinic, spend the afternoon delivering a health education session in a boarding house, and end the day supporting a pupil with a long-term condition through a difficult patch. You will work across the full breadth of adolescent health, from minor injuries and illness to mental wellbeing, safeguarding, immunisation and everything in between. Crucially, you will do it for the same young people, term after term. You will know them by name, understand their histories, and build the kind of trusted relationships that make genuinely good nursing possible. As part of a dedicated and supportive Health Centre team, you will deliver high quality, compassionate care in line with NMC standards, contribute to health promotion across the school community, and play an active role in the pastoral life of a school that puts the wellbeing of its pupils at the very heart of everything it does. About You You will be a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration and a genuine enthusiasm for working with young people. You bring clinical confidence, sound professional judgement and a warm, approachable manner. You are calm under pressure, organised in your practice, and committed to the kind of holistic, relationship-centred care that makes a boarding school nursing role so distinctive. Experience in a school or community setting is welcome, though not essential. Please note that this role is for 36 hours per week, 33 weeks per year, and operates on a four-week rolling rota. The shift pattern includes a combination of early, late, long day and night shifts. What We Offer When you join us, you become part of a community that appreciates and supports its team members. You will enjoy a range of benefits that reflects our appreciation: