Assistant Practitioner for Specialist School Nurse Team

NHS; Tandridge; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join the NHS as an Assistant Practitioner in the Specialist School Nursing Team, where you will support children with complex medical needs. This role combines hands-on care and administrative functions within a specialist school setting, emphasizing communication with families and healthcare professionals. Ideal candidates will have NVQ Level 2+ in Care, experience working with children, and a commitment to ongoing learning and development.

Benefits

Free tea and coffee at base location

Access to discounts and cashback offers

Access to wages as earned

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Career coaching and counselling

Opportunities for continuing professional development

Innovative funding for ideas

Pride in working for a high-quality standards organization

Qualifications

• Experience working with children in health, education, social care, or voluntary settings.
• Experience with children with learning disabilities, Autism, or complex health needs.
• Basic IT and keyboarding skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain effective communication with children/young people, families, and staff.
• Administer medication and undertake complex clinical tasks after training.
• Accurately document care activities.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Reliability

Sensitivity to individual family needs

Education

Minimum of 4 GCSEs (or equivalent)

NVQ Level 2+ in Care or Childcare

Care Certificate

Job description

Are you compassionate, dedicated, and looking to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children with complex medical needs?

Join our Specialist School Nursing Team as anAssistant Practitionerand play a vital role in supporting the health and wellbeing of children and young people (aged 1119) with complex learning and physical disabilities.

Based in a specialist school setting, this role includes both hands-on support and a significant administrative functionhelping to coordinate care, clinics, and communication across the service, including outreach to satellite schools.

This position is based in Clifton Hill School, Caterham

Main duties of the job

• Maintain effective communication with children/young people, families, school staff, and the multidisciplinary team.
• Report condition changes and escalate issues beyond role scope.
• Assess care needs per individual care plans and identify risks of harm.
• Safely use care equipment (e.g., hoists, wheelchairs) per policy and training.
• Maintain stock levels, records, and ensure timely servicing of medical equipment.
• Administer medication (excluding injections, except epipens) and undertake complex clinical tasks following training.
• Provide care for children with complex needs (e.g., tracheostomy, enteral feeding, catheter care).
• Liaise with families and team to review care plans.
• Support continence programmes and manage key children/young people.
• Accurately document care activities and communicate via electronic and telephone systems.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As an Assistant Practitioner in our Specialist School Nursing Team,we value you and your wellbeing, offering a range of benefits to help you feel supported and appreciated:

• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

The Ideal Candidate

Minimum of 4 GCSEs (or equivalent) and NVQ Level 2+ in Care or Childcare

Experience working with children in health, education, social care, or voluntary settings

Strong team player with the ability to work independently and accept delegated tasks

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Basic IT and keyboarding skills

Organised, reliable, and able to meet deadlines

Approachable, self-motivated, and sensitive to individual family needs

Willingness to travel for training and undertake further development

Understanding of confidentiality and safeguarding

Care Certificate

Experience with children with learning disabilities, Autism, or complex health needs (e.g. tracheostomy, enteral feeding, epilepsy)

Comfortable liaising with a range of professionals and agencies

Awareness of personal development needs and commitment to ongoing learning

Other requirements: the successful applicant will need to be a car driver

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.