Bank Special School Nurse B7 NC (NHS AfC: Band 7) - Nursing - Central London Community Healthca[...]

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust; Chipping Barnet; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Bank Special School Nurse to provide clinical leadership within a specialist field and manage a team of nurses. The role involves ensuring the health needs of children are met through effective collaboration with families, schools, and health professionals in a supportive community environment.

Benefits

Supportive work culture

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in Special Educational Needs (SEN)
• Ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledge of national policies for children and families

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and line management for the Special School Nursing Team.
• Develop and maintain policies and protocols.
• Ensure effective communication with families and relevant professionals.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Clinical skills

Negotiation

Education

Registered Nurse (RN)

Job description

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Site Barnet Special schools Town Barnet Salary £26.30 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay Salary period Hourly Closing 08/07/2025 12:00

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

JOB PURPOSE: Monday to Friday 8-4

To provide clinical leadership to the Special School Nursing Team in Brent, including line management.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership within the specialist field ensuring that this reflects national and local policies and targets.
• Direct line management responsibility for a team of specialist clinicians and team, including students and new staff.
• To develop and maintain policies, protocols and evidenced based guidelines
• To maintain accurate records and statistical returns as required by CLCH, including entering data onto the electronic health record.
• T o participate in relevant meetings with professionals, families and discharge planning meetings as required.
• To ensure effective communication with families including the provision of interpreters for parents and children who require support with the English language
• To participate in network / special interest groups
• To ensure appropriate action is taken in reporting an accident or incident to a child, family member, staff member or visitor
• To work with relevant services for children with Special Needs and additional health needs across Central London Community Healthcare, ensuring communication at all levels of the Trust
• 1 To work with the wider MDT involved with children and young people with SEND including therapists, CCNs, Paediatricians and other non NHS services.

Working for our organisation

To ensure a comprehensive care plan is in place for each child and family and in turn support education staff to maintain Health Care Plans to facilitate the child’s care in community settings such as nursery and school.

To signpost/refer families to other professionals/agencies who are able to provide a service to their child, or the wider family

To attend meetings with the family and professionals when necessary to support the care of the child.

To identify any gaps in service provision and ensure that appropriate escalation occurs via line management

To ensure that all support and care for the family is based on evidence based protocols and policies to enable care to be safely managed at home or school

To provide, or facilitate the provision of, expert training if appropriate/as required in areas of need for the child or family in conjunction with other services like CCN or relevant specialist nurses.

To support Universal services to manage individual children with additional health needs, thereby bridging the knowledge/skills gap

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· To assess the health needs of children and school community, agree individual and school health plans and deliver these through multidisciplinary partnerships.

· To organise the day to day Special School Nursing Service to children with complex health needs at the Special Needs Schools.

· 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 and screening interventions. To promote the optimum use of available resources and to secure the highest standards of care to both primary and secondary age children.

· To provide information and support to facilitate the child’s and family’s own choices with regards to nursing care

· To administer medication as prescribed and ensure safe storage of medicines in accordance to CLCH policy in Special Schools where nurses are based.

· 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 of competency of staff members.

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.