Nurse Team Leader - SEN Schools

NHS; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Nurse Team Leader for Special Schools. This role offers an exciting opportunity to support children with special educational needs. You will lead a committed nursing team, ensuring compassionate care and collaboration with families and education staff. Flexible working hours and high-quality training are available.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

High Cost Area Supplement

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• RN Child / RSCN / LD with specific CYP experience.
• Experience of staff leadership and working with children with special needs.

Responsibilities

• Leading the nursing team and supporting special school education staff.
• Providing advice and support to families and training staff on health needs.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Teaching

Interpersonal skills

Education

Degree in Nursing or equivalent experience

Job description

Go back East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Nurse Team Leader - SEN Schools

The closing date is 11 July 2025

We are recruiting for a Special Schools Nurse Team Leader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This is an exciting opportunity for a compassionate, highly motivated, and forward-thinking nurse with experience in working with children with special education needs and disability.

We provide health care support for children and young people with medical needs across our four Special Schools within East & North Hertfordshire. We have part or full-time positions available. We are a flexible and supportive team and will consider a full time/non term time position and school working hours. The post will involve working across the four special schools within East & North Hertfordshire.

In addition, you will receive a High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,258 and a maximum payment of £2,121 per annum pro rata.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be working collaboratively with children, families, carers, school staff and the wider multi-disciplinary team within the education setting to ensure a supportive and caring learning environment.

You will be responsible for co-ordinating & leading the nursing team at an allocated school site and provide support to the wider special school nursing team.

You will be passionate about providing compassionate care in a school setting, have excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

You will be responsible for providing advice and support to families and education staff and providing training and competency assessments to education staff.

The role will include teaching/training and supporting the school team in meeting and maintaining the health needs of the children and young people attending school.

This role requires you to be flexible in a constantly changing environment and to respond to emergency needs as they arise.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

o The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

o New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

o Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

• RN Child / RSCN / LD with specific CYP experience
• Degree in Nursing or equivalent experience

Previous Experience

• Experience of staff leadership
• Evidence of professional development
• Experienced Clinical Nurse
• Experience of working with children and young people with special needs
• Experience of teaching others
• Ability to work well in stressful situations
• Experience of staff leadership in a community setting

Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Board range of clinical skills
• Ability to organize the workload, able to delegate and prioritize.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Teaching skills
• Ability to lead and manage a team
• Good knowledge of health and safety and risk management

Knowledge

• In depth knowledge of the care of CYP with complex needs
• Good understanding of CYP issues
• Good understanding of community health services
• Good understanding of current nursing workforce issues
• Knowledge of current NHS & professional nursing issues
• Understanding of child protection procedures
• Leadership knowledge

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum-pro rata - Plus 5% High Cost Area Supplement

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time,Term time hours,Annualised hours