Nursing Services Manager

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City of Edinburgh

Hybrid

GBP 43,000 - 48,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Membership of the Galleon Club

Wide range of employee benefits

Job summary

George Watson’s College in Edinburgh seeks a Nursing Services Manager to lead the School’s Nursing provision, ensuring high quality medical and first aid care for pupils. The post holder remains an active nurse while fulfilling leadership duties and maintaining NMC standards.

The role involves managing a 60/40 nurse rota, developing training programs with staff, and ensuring compliance with NHS and school policies.

Qualifications

Qualified nurse with NMC registration and a nursing degree or equivalent.
Experience leading a nursing team in an institutional setting.
Proven ability to manage recruitment, training and performance of staff.
Strong time management and prioritisation for a busy school health service.
Excellent written and oral communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Lead the nursing team to meet pupils' health needs in line with professional standards.
Develop and deliver a training programme for staff and pupils with the Learning team.
Manage a 60/40 nurse rota across all school days and holiday periods.
Attend Strategy meetings with Guidance, PSHE and senior teams.
Oversee stock control, budget compliance and medical supplies ordering.
Design data collection systems to inform school management decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Recruitment & performance management

Time management

Communication skills

NMC Code knowledge

Child Protection awareness

Autonomy & collaboration

Data handling & GDPR

Education

RN/RGN qualified or nursing degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

IT skills

Job description

Location: George Watson’s College, Edinburgh

Contract Type: Permanent.36.25 hour per week, 47 weeks per year

Benefits: Membership of the Galleon Club (the school’s fitness club) and access to a wide range of employee benefits.

George Watson’s College wishes to appoint a Nursing Services Manager to lead the School’s Nursing provision. The purpose of the role is to ensure that high quality medical and first aid care is provided to our pupils and that the nursing service operates to the standards of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Professional Conduct and scope of nurses professional practice at all times.

The postholder will be an active Nurse in the service, alongside their leadership and management responsibilities.

Hours of work will be 36.25 hours per week, 47 weeks per year which represents term time working, a week of professional learning and a requirement to work for three weeks during school holiday periods. The salary for this position will be in the Grade 6 range which currently stands at £47,247 - £53,187 per annum based on 52 weeks per year, so the actual annual salary will be £42,704 - £48,072. A market pay supplement will be applied to ensure that the total salary matches the RCN scale 7.

Closing date: 11:59pm on 18 November 2026

Interviews are scheduled to take place in the week commencing 23 November 2026

Leadership and Management

To lead the team of Nurses at George Watson’s College to ensure the service meets the needs of the pupils in accordance with the Scottish Government Guidelines.

Manage the performance of the nurses in the team, ensuring that they fulfil their obligations for professional development and reregistration of the NMC.

Working with Guidance teams and the Learning and Development Manager, develop and deliver a programme of training and learning for teachers, staff and pupils is developed and delivered by all nurses in the team.

Manage a working rota ensuring all nurses work 60/40 ratio across each school and all have a good understanding and awareness of the whole school service. Ensure cover is in place for the provision across critical times, cover absence etc.

Plan in advance the key milestones in the school year and ensure key tasks are delivered on time, e.g. preparation for new session, planned trips etc.

Attend meetings with the Guidance, ASL, Psychologist and senior school teams (JSLT/SSLT) as required to share information about specific children and cascade important information as required to the wider nursing team.

Ensures medical supplies stock control and rotation and timely ordering within the departmental budget.

To design a system to collect customer data which is then analysed in order to inform the school management teams of issues and plans for the future.

Develop a relationship with an appropriate external clinical practitioner to provide support as required.

Nursing Services

Facilitate safe, evidence based, cost effective, and individualised care for pupils, staff and visitors to the School through robust, high-quality clinical assessments and interventions.

To provide on-going nursing support, advice, guidance and information to all key stakeholders (i.e. pupils, staff, visitors, parents/families) covering a range of clinical needs, including both physical and mental health conditions and concerns, in order to promote resilience (e.g. minor ailments, complex and/or chronic medical conditions, infectious diseases, sexual health, stress etc).

To facilitate and support all necessary health screening requirements for the School (e.g. risk assessments for trips etc).

To provide support in relation to rehabilitation from injury or illness, covering individual needs and the management of various return to school sport and post-concussion protocols.

To provide support to Wraparound Care activities, i.e. Holiday Club and After School Club.

First Aid, Incident and Accident Management

Provides First Aid and emergency care and treatment including all initial health care support for the effective management of injuries, accidents or critical incidents, liaising with emergency services, staff, parents and pupils, as required. Where possible, this includes providing First Aid support for sport fixtures during the working week.

To complete all appropriate/associated paperwork to ensure a clear audit trail, as well as health and safety and legal compliance (e.g. RIDDOR, near misses etc).

To provide support, guidance and advice to other in-house First Aiders, and ensure systems are updated and pastoral records are completed.

To attend as required, key trips out of school which could be day trips or residential with the purpose of providing health care where we have pupils attending who are considered ‘high risk’ or the location or activity is considered ‘high risk’.

Immunisation Programme and Health Assessments

To facilitate the agreed NHS immunisation programmes in School, assist with the planning, preparation and screening of pupils for the programmes, collaborative working with the NHSCommunity Vaccination Team, and maintenance of associated clinical protocols.

Complete Junior School Health Assessments, organise the School Nurses who document, measure and calculate percentiles.

Policies/Procedures and Governance

Develops and initiates the review of key policies as required, ensuring all the nursing team and wider stakeholders are consulted where necessary and are trained in the implementation thereof.

Ensures policy adheres to the School ethos, legal and medical requirements, and current clinical best practice.

Ensure necessary systems are in place for on-going compliance (e.g. emergency response protocols, risk assessments, effective and safe medicine management, consent management, staff training, infection control procedures, etc).

Develops standard operating procedures for the whole provision, ensuring all nursesare trained in their use and manages compliance against standards and competency frameworks.

Departmental Support Services

To provide a range of clinical support services for departments across the School. Specific tasks and support requirements are wide and varied, e.g.

provision of First Aid kits and spills packs
partnership working with teaching staff
training staff in the use of allergy/adrenaline pens, defibrillators
support to Additional Support for Learning, regarding clinical and practical support for pupils under their care
health care advice and information for school trips, attending trips where required
working with the Health and Safety Manager in support of clinical aspects of risk assessments
providing general health care support, advice, guidance and information
Support the Child Planning/GIRFEC process by attending termly meetings as required (JS and SS).

Attend termly Health and Safety Committee

Administration and Management of Health Information

Gathers essential health information from parents for their children, analyses the returns and transfers essential data to create the pupil medical record.

Ensures accurate completion and maintenance of all documentation and medical records (electronic and paper) and raises any process improvements that are required.

Ensures all data handling and storage complies with GDPR.

Essential Criteria:

RGN/RN Qualified or hold a degree in a relevant Nursing qualification.
Current Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Experience of managing a team, including recruitment, selection, training and development and performance management of colleagues.
Considerable previous experience in a nursing environment
Demonstrable experience of evaluating the safety and effectiveness of own practice and professional development.
Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively as part of anursing team
Excellent time management skills, with the ability to demonstrate previous, effective prioritisation of a complex workload
Demonstrable understanding of the accountability arising from the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
Demonstrable understanding of Child Protection regulations and requirements
Excellent, concise, oral and written communication skills, demonstrating the highest levels of sensitivity, diplomacy and confidentiality
Ability to use Microsoft packages/ITskills to successfully manage administration and support effective communication pathways
Ability to identify personal and professional limitations of self and in doing so:
1. work within the scope of practice
2. value the individual
3. work in a professional manner

Operate with empathy, compassion, transparency, integrity, commitment, confidentiality, flexibility, attention to detail, sound interpersonal skills, fairness, confidentiality, communication skills (active listening), non judgemental approach, patience.

Desirable Criteria: