Bank School Nurse - SW

Communication Partners; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated School Nurse to innovate and enhance healthcare services for children in schools. This role involves planning, organizing, and evaluating a School Nursing service while collaborating with various stakeholders to address health needs effectively. You'll be responsible for providing health assessments and education, ensuring quality service delivery, and actively participating in health improvement initiatives. If you're passionate about making a difference in the lives of young people and want to work in a supportive environment that prioritizes community health, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in School Nursing and public health.
• Ability to collaborate with healthcare providers and educators.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evaluate School Nursing services for high complexity schools.
• Conduct health assessments and provide education to children and families.

Skills

School Nursing

Health Assessment

Collaboration

Public Health Knowledge

Data Entry

Education

Nursing Degree

Specialist School Nurse Training

Tools

Electronic Patient Records Systems

Datix System

Job description

JOB PURPOSE

4 Days a week 9-5

To plan, organize and evaluate an innovative School Nursing service, and where appropriate, delegate to other members of the School Health team to ensure delivery of a quality service to a cluster of high complexity schools.

To participate in service development and health improvement activities.

To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers, including head teachers, to identify and address health needs for school age children and young people and to ensure seamless delivery of services.

To collaborate with team colleagues in order to deliver the Quality Strategy objectives.

To be visible in schools on a regular basis, as agreed within the partnership agreement.

To deliver the role specific elements of the Universal Healthy Child Programme 5-19 (DH 2009).

To contribute to the undertaking and reporting of performance measures, alerting Team Lead of any shortfalls.

Ensure the timely and correct entry of clinical and statistical data onto electronic patient records and systems as required by the Trust.

To support the Team Lead with the delivery of the CBU Quality Strategy action plan.

To actively seek out the voice of the child/young person.

To report all near misses/incidents on the Trust wide Datix system in regard to any accident or incident to patient, staff or visitor within the scope of the post holder’s responsibility and in line with Trust policy.

We provide community 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:

1. stay well
2. manage their own health with the right support
3. 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.

To provide a skilled, effective and evidence-based service to children and young people within schools and community settings.

To act as a named school nurse for a cluster of nominated schools, applying specialist skills and knowledge in the delivery of the school health service.

To develop an overview of the profiled health needs of the defined population alerting the Team Lead where any service gaps are identified.

To identify, prioritise and implement programmes of care that meet the public health needs of the defined school age population.

To provide health assessments, advice and education to children/young people, their parents/carers and Education staff.

To prioritise services appropriate to the local public health and population needs.

To have a knowledge and understanding of the CLCH safeguarding policies and procedures, the different categories of child abuse and how they may manifest themselves and how policies are applied in practice.