Bank School Nurse - SW

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Bank Special School Nurse to provide nursing care for children with complex health needs at Perseid Special School. The successful candidate will have SCPHN-SN qualification and nursing experience and will play a vital role in organizing and leading health services in a special needs environment.

Qualifications

• Must have SCPHN-SN qualification.
• Experience in paediatric nursing is required.
• Leadership experience necessary for managing health team.

Responsibilities

• Taking overall responsibility for assessment and management of nursing care.
• Training staff and providing clinical support to school staff.
• Conducting health assessment and developing health plans for children.

Skills

Leadership

Assessment skills

Team management

Communication

Clinical care

Education

SCPHN-SN qualification

RN

Job description

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Site Lavender Steers Mead Children's Centre, Town Londons Salary £21.88 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay Salary period Hourly Closing 26/06/2025 16:00

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 14 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, Kingston - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.

Job overview

Bank Special School Nurse - Monday to Friday

We have a great opportunity for a Senior Nurse (Band 6) with Paediatric experience to join our bank and work at Perseid Special School - Merton.

We are looking for with an experienced senior nurse , to be able to care for children and young people with complex health needs within a special school environment.

Must have SCPHN-SN qualification

The role may be challenging and therefore a senior nurse must have leadership experience.

A senior nurse will be part of the Health Team, taking overall responsibility for the assessment, provision, management and evaluation of evidenced based nursing care to children at the Special Needs School (Perseid).

Main duties of the job

JOB SUMMARY

To work as part of the Health Team, taking overall responsibility for the assessment, provision, management and evaluation of evidenced based nursing care to children at the Special Needs School (Perseid).

To provide day to day management of the school staff and health team re: equipment and clinical resources in the school, in line with professional standards and quality of care.

To take responsibility for training school staff, in line with agreed competency base training packages.

To provide clinical input to the school leadership team in the absence of the team leader for school-wide health issues.

Working for our organisation

We providecommunity health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.

Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:

stay well

manage their own health with the right support

avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.

We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.

Our vision:deliver great care closer to home.

Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical

• To assess the health needs of children and young people in special schools and, agree individual and school health plans and deliver these through multidisciplinary partnerships.
• To deliver the day-to-day Special School Nursing Service to children with complex health needs at the Special Needs School.
• To provide skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with complex care needs including technology dependent children.
• To participate in direct clinical input to ensure appropriate nursing interventions. To promote the optimum use of available resources and to secure the highest standards of care to both primary and secondary age students.
• To provide information and support to facilitate the child’s and family’s own choices with regards to nursing care and therapy input.
• To administer medication as prescribed and ensure safe storage of medicines in accordance with CLCH policy
• To deliver and manage training needs of school and health staff in the delivery of health care to children in the school, through the agreed competency based training packages, including assessment and sign off competency of staff members.
• To manage the provision of continence products to children and young people in the school, working alongside the family and support workers.
• To ensure safe handling of body fluids and contaminated sharps in personal practice and within the team
• To target disadvantaged or underrepresented children who may not have had a full child health service before starting school.
• To support and advise team members on developing initiatives relating to the public health agenda for schools with special needs children
• To plan, participate or support the delivery of multi-disciplinary sessions/ clinics for the children in the school.
• To coordinate children for medicals working in partnership with the child, parents, school staff, Community Paediatricians, and Allied Health Professionals (AHP).
• To empower parents by providing information and support to facilitate them in making healthy life choices regarding their child’s welfare in a way which is appropriate for them
• Develop and maintain a good working relationship with teachers and other professionals and agencies involved, making referrals where appropriate to ensure adequate support for children and parents.
• To liaise with the Children’s Community Nursing Service in providing care to children with complex health needs
• To work in partnership to safeguard children and young people adhering to local and national policies and guidance, participating in child protection case conferences and associated meetings according to LSCB and Trust Policies.
• To maintain accurate, systematic and timely record keeping, in line with NMC guidelines, including recording of clinical data on EMIS.
• To work as an autonomous and specialist practitioner within the special schools nursing team

Person specification

Essential and Desirable

• RN
• Experience of negotiating and liaising with a multi-agency or school senior leadership team
• Experience of leading/ setting up or implementing training for a variety of staff groups eg; school/ health/ respite/ parents
• Knowledge of national policies for children and families
• Evidence of recent professional development related to SEN
• Practice Teacher
• Experience in School Health/ MDT school setting
• Experience in transitioning e.g. early years to primary and children and young people to adult services.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.