Special School and Respite Team Lead

Transformationunitgm; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking team as the Team Lead for Community Children’s Nurses, focusing on delivering quality nursing services to children with complex health needs in Shropshire. This leadership role requires expertise in community nursing, collaboration with diverse health professionals, and a vision for enhancing patient care.

Qualifications

• Extensive post registration experience working with children and young people with nursing needs.
• Experience in clinical leadership and line management.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead community children’s nurse-led initiatives.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver care for chronic/complex health needs.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational Skills

Negotiation

Decision Making

Education

NMC Registered Children's Nurse/RN (Child)

Specialist Community Children’s Nursing qualification

Leadership and Management qualification

Independent Nurse Prescriber (to be completed within 12 months)

Job description

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list

https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, forward thinking Community Children’s Nurses to join our leadership team as our Special School and Respite Team Lead.

We provide a special school nursing service to two special schools across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. We also have a small respite team of health care assistants providing packages of care to children and young people with a nursing need on our caseload.

This post will be an attractive position to a candidate looking to move into a leadership role and wishing to remain within the field of special school nursing and complex care.

We are looking for an experienced, children's nurse whose vision is to provide a quality service and to maximise a positive patient experience in this established service. The candidate must demonstrate extensive experience working with children and young people who has complex health and learning disabilities in the community setting.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the day to day leadership and management of the team, working closely with the CCN Team Lead and the Community Children's Nursing Service Manager,

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

• To effectively manage and lead the delivery and evaluation of the community children’s nurse-led initiatives including the Special School Nursing and Respite services within Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
• To work alongside multi-disciplinary, multi-agency teams across primary and secondary care, education and social care to deliver a needs led service for children and young people with chronic/complex/palliative/respite health care needs.
• To act as the CCN Service SEND lead.

The team leader will work autonomously in the community to ensure the service protects and improve the health and wellbeing of children with a range of health needs in achieving their full health and educational potential.

The team leader at times will provide telephone triage, patient consultations at school, home and within nurse-led clinic settings, undertake assessment, diagnosis and treatment and where appropriate nurse prescribing for children and young people with acute/chronic health care needs within agreed protocols.

The successful candidate will be required to work as part of a roster between Monday-Friday working flexibly between 08.00-18.00. The post holder will also be required to participate and provide leadership for the on-call provision to support end of life care over a 24 hour period.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

• NMC Registered Children's Nurse/RN (Child) or Registered School Nurse with SCPHN qualification
• Specialist Community Children’s Nursing qualification
• Evidence of short courses at master’s level or equivalent experience
• Student Nursing supervisor and assessor training
• Leadership and Management qualification
• Independent Nurse Prescriber (to be completed within 12months of commencement of post)

Experience

• Extensive post registration experience working with children and young people with nursing needs in the community setting.
• Experience of teaching and assessing in a clinical area.
• Participation in service development and implementation of change.
• Recent experience of providing clinical leadership and experience of line management.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary / multi-agency working.

Knowledge and Skills

• Evidence of continuing post registration education/training in field of practice
• Knowledge of relevant guidelines & ability to interpret their impact on strategic service developments, patient outcomes and clinical practice
• Ability to communicate complex & distressing information to CYP & their parent/carers in a sensitive & supportive way at a level they can understand
• Skilled on the use of IT
• Advanced communication, negotiation, decision making and organisational skills, both verbally and in writing

Other

• Ability to meet travel requirements of the post

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.