Special School Nurse

NHS; Birkenhead; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Special School Nurse to provide essential care for children with medical needs in schools. This role involves working closely with a diverse team to deliver high-quality health services, promoting health and wellbeing, and ensuring safety for vulnerable families. Ideal candidates will be registered nurses with experience in pediatric care, demonstrating strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Benefits

Continuous professional development opportunities

Flexible working environments

Supportive team culture

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with evidence of recent professional development.
• Two years post registration experience in a community environment.
• Knowledge of safeguarding issues and working with vulnerable families.

Responsibilities

• Provide care to children with medical needs in schools.
• Work within a multi-agency team to deliver health services.
• Engage with families and promote health and wellbeing among youth.

Skills

Communication

Organizational

Interpersonal

Flexibility

Teamwork

Education

Registered Nurse (Adult/Child)

Modules at level 6 - Public Health Related

Solihull Approach trained

Motivational Interviewing trained

Job description

Go back Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Special School Nurse

The closing date is 02 July 2025

Do you fancy a career with an award winning integrated health and care NHS Foundation Trust?

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trustis an innovative and forward-thinking organisation, delivering high quality health and care services to the populations of Wirral, Cheshire East and West, St Helens and Knowsley.

This is an exciting opportunity to form part of a new Special School Nurse team within Wirral providing care to children with medical and clinical need within these schools .

Main duties of the job

We take great pride in being an open, trusting and compassionate organisation. The Trust is committed to promoting and building a team that enhances inclusion, diversity and equality. We strongly believe that working together with our partners, listening to and engaging with our patients, service users and their families we can make a real difference to the lives of local people within our communities.

We currently deliver outstanding0-19 and 0-19+ Health and Wellbeing Servicesacross Wirral, Cheshire East and St Helens, supporting over 207,000 children and young people. Our dedicated, innovative and forward thinking children and young people's services have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of families in our communities.

We work closely with our commissioners and partners to deliver the best possible services for the children, young people and families.

If you are an enthusiastic and forward thinking nurse who wants to make a real difference to children and their families then this could be the opportunity you have been looking for, offering a variety of work to the successful candidate that will include public health and safeguarding .

You should possess excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills together with an ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team. An in depth knowledge of the current health agenda relating to children's services is essential.

About us

You will be joining a proactive skill mixed team working together to deliver and support needs for children within Wirral Special Schools . As part of the 0-19 Service which includes Health Visiting and School nursing you will be working closely with other local statutory, health and voluntary agencies to provide accessible, person centred packages of care in response to individual and local need. You will be working in partnership across the areas .

About the Trust

Our local and community based services support people to live well and independently, including:

• 0-19 / 0-19+ Health and Wellbeing Services
• Community Nursing
• Sexual Health Wirral
• Community Cardiology
• Speech and Language Therapy
• Teletriage
• Community Dental
• Social Care
• End of Life Care

As a Trust, we provide extensive continuous professional development opportunities through a diverse range of learning solutions, including virtual and face-to-face events, webinars and action learning sets. We subscribe to numerous memberships and licences to support staff development and continuous learning.

You can read more about the Trust via thecareers section on our website.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information regarding this role

Person Specification

Qualifications and professional training

• Registered Nurse (Adult/Child)
• Evidence of recent professional development
• Modules at level 6 - Public Health Related
• Solihull Approach trained
• Motivational Interviewing trained

Experience and knowledge

• Knowledge of Paediatric Health Care needs and priorities
• Knowledge of child development
• Knowledge of safeguarding issues and working with vulnerable families.
• Understanding of role within the Public Health Team
• Two years post registration
• Experience of data collection for reports
• Previous experience or working in a community environment

Skills and attributes

• Good verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to use email, internet and word processing software
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Ability to facilitate groups and discussions
• Ability to be flexible to meet the needs of the service
• Commitment
• Vision
• Access to a car for work purposes
• Confident and approachable

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.

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust