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East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is seeking a SEND Schools Nurse Team Leader to provide compassionate, expert nursing leadership across four special schools. The role focuses on coordinating the school nursing team and supporting families and education staff to ensure high-quality care for children with SEND.

You will oversee training, competency assessments and clinical governance within the education setting, working with families, carers, school staff, and the wider

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate and lead the nursing team at an allocated school site and provide support to the wider school nursing team.
• Deliver training and competency assessments to education staff to meet health needs of pupils.
• Teach and support the school team in meeting and maintaining health needs of children and young people attending school.
• Respond flexibly to emergencies and adapt to changing environments within the education setting.
• Work collaboratively with families, carers, school staff and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure a supportive learning environment.

Job description

Nurse Team Leader - SEND Schools | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

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.

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.

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.

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

This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Sep 2026