SEND Community Staff Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking a SEND Community Staff Nurse to work as part of a team supporting the health and well-being of school-aged children and young people. You will undertake assessments, develop care plans, and collaborate with various agencies to ensure effective health outcomes. This role promises a dynamic work environment within a commitment to 'perfect care'.

Qualifications

• Dynamic, highly motivated individual.
• Experience in working with children and families.
• Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme.

Responsibilities

• Caring for children with urinary catheters and gastrostomy feeds.
• Responding to emergency situations.
• Undertaking holistic assessments and planning health programmes.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Ability to work in a team

Caring for children with medical needs

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Overview

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 a 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.

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.

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.

Responsibilities and Team Working

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.

This advert closes on Friday 31 Oct 2025