School Nurse

Description:

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:

Free Westfield Healthcare
Free membership of dual-use Sports Centre (£25 annual joining fee)
Free staff lunches in term-time
School fee discount for children of Uppingham staff (pro-rated for part-time staff)
Retail, gym, supermarket, cinema and restaurant discounts
Cycle to work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Occupational Health Services
Free annual flu jabs
Recognised as a "Disability Confident" employer
Recognised as a "Mindful" employer
Favourable rates and terms with local nursery
Complimentary staff ticket to selected School performances
Discount at local coffee shop for Uppingham staff
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early once we have received an adequate number of applications, therefore we encourage early submissions.

Safeguarding

Uppingham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Uppingham School ensures that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. Successful candidates must be willing to undergo full screening in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE), including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. Issues relating to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils will be explored at interview.

You may have experience in the following: School Nurse, Registered Nurse, RGN, RN Child, Practice Nurse, Community Nurse, Paediatric Nurse, Adolescent Health Nurse, Boarding School Nurse, Health Centre Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Occupational Health Nurse, etc