Band 3 Special School Nursing Assistant

Evasion-design.com; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team in Birmingham as a Special School Nursing Assistant, providing essential health care support to children with complex needs. This role is vital in ensuring that young individuals receive the care they need during their school day, particularly those requiring enteral feeds. You will collaborate with a multi-agency team, engage in health screenings, and promote health within the special school context. This is a rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of children and their families in your community, all while receiving comprehensive training and support to excel in your role.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children, especially those with complex learning and health needs.
• Full competency-based training will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Support the Special School Nursing Service to deliver high care standards.
• Contribute to safe growth measurement of children.

Skills

Experience with children

Health care support

Teamwork

Administrative duties

Education

Relevant health care qualifications

Job description

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can if interested.

You will work as part of the Special School Nursing Service in providing health care support to children/young people who require enteral feeds during their school day. (Enteral feeding refers to intake of food via gastrointestinal tract through a tube directly into the stomach or small intestine for children who are unable to have all their diet and fluids by mouth).

Responsibilities include:

1. Working as part of a team supporting the Special School Nursing Service to deliver a high standard of care to children/young people.
2. Contributing to safe and effective growth measurement of children/young people within the special school nursing service in line with the Healthy Child Programme.
3. Working as part of a multi-agency team within a special school and other establishments under the direction of the Team Leader, reporting relevant information to the special school nurse.
4. Undertaking administrative duties to enable the service to function effectively.

We have a vacancy within our city-wide Special School Nursing Service for Band 3 Special School Nursing Assistant to undertake a range of duties to assist and support the Special School Nurse to carry out health screening, health promotion, and other health-related tasks within Birmingham Special Schools.

The Post is for 30 hours per week, over 5 days, Monday - Friday, term time, with a 30-minute unpaid break.

If you have experience of working with children, especially children with complex learning and health needs, we would like to hear from you.

Full competency-based training will be given to successful applicants.

An Enhanced DBS will be required for this post.

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics, and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre, and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

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Promoting Workforce Equality

In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.

The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.