Nurse Team Leader - Send Schools

East And North Hertfordshire Nhs Trust; Stevenage, Pelaw; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is seeking a SEND Schools Nurse Team Leader to coordinate and lead the nursing team across four special schools, ensuring compassionate, child-centered care. You will collaborate with families, carers and school staff to maintain health needs within an education setting.

Essential to have RN Child/RSCN/LD with CYP experience and a nursing degree, plus leadership qualifications. The role supports flexible school hours and cross-site work.

Qualifications

• Evidence of leadership and running a nursing team within an education setting.
• Experience with children and young people with special educational needs.
• Competent in providing training and assessments to education staff.
• Strong communication with families, carers and school staff.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead the nursing team at an allocated school site.
• Provide support to the wider special school nursing team.
• Offer advice to families and education staff on health needs.
• Deliver training and competency assessments for school staff.
• Teach, train and support the school team to meet health needs.
• Respond flexibly to emergencies across sites.

Skills

Excellent communication and Interper-?

Broad range of clinical skills

Organise workload and delegate

Written and verbal communication

Teaching skills

Lead and manage a team

Health and safety and risk management

Education

RN Child/RSCN/ LD with CYP experience

Nursing degree or equivalent

Management and leadership qualification

Job description

We are recruiting for a SEND 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 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.

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.

Working for our organisation

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:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

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.

Detailed job description and main 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
• Management and leadership qualification

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
• Understanding of current NHS & professional nursing issues
• Understanding of child protection procedures
• Leadership knowledge

Other Requirements

• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Ability to travel between sites
• Ability to work well in stressful situations.