Family Nurse

Overview

Directorate:
Public Health and Communities | Service: 0-19 Public Health Nursing

Position reference:
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.

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 living overseas or have lived overseas in the last five years, if you are the preferred candidate you will be required to apply for an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in. If you experience difficulty, please email .

When applying, please ensure you are prepared to start work with all necessary legal documents (e.g., valid visa). Please note that the organisation does not possess a Home Office sponsorship license and cannot sponsor visas for skilled or temporary migrant workers.

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, seek advice from the relevant Pensions Authority.

At Barnsley Council you can start a career that makes a real difference to people’s lives. We’re an award-winning council and one of the biggest employers in the borough, supporting around 243,000 people. We offer flexible working, employee discounts, health and wellbeing support, and opportunities for training and development.

There’s a lot happening in our thriving borough. We invite you to join our Public Health and Communities team as we work to make Barnsley a place of possibilities.

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?

We live and work by four values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and pride in what we do. We deliver the 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service, at the forefront of care for Barnsley’s children and young people. We recognise that our greatest asset is our employees, and successful nursing candidates will have NHS continuous service recognised for annual leave and sickness absence, with access to the NHS Pension Scheme if eligible.

To ensure continued provision of Public Health Nursing services within Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, we are recruiting a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) who can lead and support high-quality service delivery.

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based, licensed programme forming the specialist level of the healthy child programme for young parents and their babies. The aim 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 is offered in a strengths-based, trauma-informed way. It is offered to first-time parents;

fathers and partners are encouraged to participate.

The Family Nurse role delivers all aspects of the healthy child programme (HCP), focusing on fostering client self-efficacy, personal growth, and capacity for sensitive, responsive parenting. The role requires advanced specialist knowledge and skills underpinned by theoretical frameworks, clinical training and experience.

Required

The successful candidate will sit within the FNP team and work alongside health visitors, school nurses and skill mix practitioners. You will be expected to:

• Undertake specialist training in all elements of the FNP programme and achieve the family nurse competencies defined at national level, including mandatory training in motivational interviewing, dyadic observation, parental emotional connectedness, adolescent brain development, child development, human ecology, and attachment theory, with ongoing professional learning and reflective supervision.
• Deliver the healthy child programme…