Band 5 Special School Nurse

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking a Band 5 Special School Nurse. You will deliver specialist nursing care in special school settings, ensuring compliance with safeguarding policies. Candidates must possess a relevant nursing qualification and have experience in children's nursing. This role requires strong communication skills and the ability to manage time effectively. The position offers a chance to make a meaningful impact on children's health.

Qualifications

• Proven clinical experience in children's nursing required.
• Understanding of the needs of children with disabilities or additional health problems essential.

Responsibilities

• Assess care needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
• Provide health surveillance and specialist advice to schools.
• Support education staff and advise parents and pupils.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to manage time effectively

Knowledge of children's health needs

Education

Relevant professional qualification - RSCN or RN Child Branch or RNLD

Job description

Would you like an opportunity to join a community based nursing team?

This post will be working across the city-wide special school nursing service implementing and delivering specialist nursing care in a special school environment. The successful candidate will be required to carry out assessments; provide both planned and responsive clinical care and ensure that local safeguarding policies are adhered to.

They will be identified as a role model for the Band 5 Special School Nurses and Enteral Feeding Assistants and will also support education staff and offer advice and support to parents and pupils.

We would welcome applications from enthusiastic committed children's nurses with proven clinical experience who have excellent communication skills and are able to manage their time effectively.

An understanding of the needs of children and young people with disability and/or additional health problems is essential.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of a team to participate in the delivery of health care and promote the health and welfare of children attending Special Schools and to acknowledge and respect the individual rights and personal dignity of the students.

The post holder will work autonomously within their sphere of professional practice, working within teams and service guidelines and objectives.

To be involved in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individual care needs in line with the core offer of service.

To take charge of a designated area in the absence of the band 6 Special School Nurse.

To support the teaching of competencies to nursing and education staff.

To ensure high quality core offer from the Special School Nursing Service consists of:

• assessment and review
• hands on clinical care
• key worker and signposting including transition
• training and supervision, and
• a general role in optimising long term health and lifestyles

About us

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare rolesdelivers 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, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation 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 better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

For further details please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Job responsibilities

Main Duties

• Designated by the band 6 Special School Nurse to act as the named nurse for one or more Schools within a quadrant grouping providing health surveillance specialist advice and clinical programmes of care.
• To assess care needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
• To carry out prescribed nursing interventions as per the care plan under the direction of the Special School Nurse. Each care plan will identify:-
• Existing clinical needs and how and by whom these will be met.
• Monitoring the childs growth and development in line with the Healthy Child Programme.
• Progress against the plan, expected outcomes and timescales.
• Safeguarding needs.
• The care plan will be made available to sit alongside and complement the childs individual Education Plan (IEP).

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

• Educated to the following level: oRelevant professional qualification - RSCN or RN Child Branch or RNLD
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Experience

• Experience of recent community/acute healthcare gained through education or work experience placement or previous employment.

Skills & Knowledge

• Awareness of professional issues and recent developments in the NHS
• Knowledge of up to date clinical practice
• Sound communication and interpersonal skills (verbal and written)
• Ability to cope with change
• Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, taking into account Trust policies and procedures
• Ability to organise own work
• Ability to use own initiative
• Able to support the implementation of local and national agenda's for health under the guidance of the team lead / ward manager.

Other Job Requirements

• Ability to motivate and organise others to ensure best practice.
• Ability to travel to work and other locations as required.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Flexible and adaptable

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.