SEND Community Staff Nurse

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health trust in Merseyside seeks a Band 5 nurse to join the SEND School Health team. The role requires providing care for children with specific health needs, delivering the Healthy Child Programme, and collaborating with local agencies. Candidates should have post-registration experience, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to promoting health and wellbeing in school-aged children. A focus on team collaboration and a willingness to support vulnerable families is essential. Flexible working options may be available.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children with tracheostomies, urinary catheters, and enteral feeds.
• Awareness of child safeguarding issues.
• Evidence of ability to manage caseload.

Responsibilities

• Caring for children with complex health needs in school settings.
• Undertaking assessments and delivering the Healthy Child Programme.
• Collaborating with partner agencies for health outcomes.

Skills

Excellent Communication Skills

Team Working Skills

Ability to Travel for Work

Teaching Skills with Junior Staff

Nurse immuniser (or willingness to train)

Education

Post registration experience

Job description

We are looking for a Band 5 nurse , term time hours to join our team. They will primarily support within our specialist school. The successful applicant will be a dynamic, highly motivated individual, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

As a SEND Community Staff Nurse you will be working as part of pro-active skill mix team who are committed to delivering high quality services.

The service provides support to children, young people and their families within a progressive universal model of service delivery dependent on assessed need.

The service offers every child/family a programme of screening, developmental reviews and information and guidance to support parenting and healthy choices as defined by The Healthy Child Programme 0 - 19 years and up to the age of 25 years for children and young people with Special Educational Needs.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Duties

Responsibilities will include caring for children with urinary catheters, gastrostomy feeds, and medication requirements along with an awareness of tracheostomy and stoma care within the school and community settings. Responding to emergency situations and developing specialist individual care plans to meet the child/young person's needs alongside staff training is an important aspect of the role.

Public Health

Undertake holistic assessments of children, young people and families in planning and delivering the Healthy Child Programme, including health screening and immunisations, plus a requirement to safeguard and support the health needs of any vulnerable children/young people within the caseload across the city.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Job responsibilities

The SEND Community Staff Nurse will work predominantly as part of the SEND School Health team to promote and improve health and well-being of school-aged children and young people to reduce health inequalities.

The post holder will support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.

The post holder will work in collaboration with partner agencies both voluntary and statutory to achieve good health outcomes for children and their families.

The post holder may have responsibility for allocated schools as the named Health Professional, and will work as part of the SEND School Health Team with delegated responsibility for the assessment of care needs, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for children, young people and families.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Consolidated period of post registration experience
• Awareness of children and young people who have tracheostomy's, urinary catheters, stomas, enteral feeds, and usage of associated equipment

Knowledge / Experience

• Actively involved in professional development
• Clinical Governance and Risk Management
• Experience of research/audit/evaluation
• Evidence of ability to prioritise
• Evidence of ability to manage caseload
• Ability to motivate/negotiate with and influence others
• Understanding of local and national influences on health care delivery
• Awareness of current trends in Sch ool Health practice
• Awareness of local and national Public Health agendas
• Knowledge of Health Promotion and Education
• Knowledge of Health Needs Assessment
• Knowledge of Childhood Immunisation Programmes
• Knowledge of Child development, screening and assessments
• Knowledge of Child Safeguarding issues
• Evidence of ability to manage and prioritise within caseload
• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individualised and school based programmes of care

Skills

• Demonstrate Excellent Communication Skills: Spoken, Written and IT
• Understanding of Skills Required for Team Working
• Ability to Travel for Work Purposes within the Mersey Care area
• Understanding of Teaching / Education Skills with Junior Staff
• Ability to motivate/negotiate with and influence others
• Nurse immuniser (or willing to undertake training and practice)

Values

• Responsive to Service Users
• Engagement Leadership Style
• High Professional Standards
• Accountability
• Support
• Discreet
• Change oriented

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.

£31,049 to £37,796 a yearper annum / pro rata