Special School Nurse

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Southall; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Special School Nurse (Band 5 or 6) to deliver specialist health care for children in the Ealing special schools. The role requires autonomous working and leadership for HCA's, with a Monday–Friday, 8.00–16.00, term-time pattern.

You will collaborate with families, school staff and partners to improve health outcomes and support children to reach their full potential across home, community and school settings.

Qualifications

• NMC registered nurse with child/learning disability or community paediatric experience.
• Numeracy skills for safe medicines administration.
• Evidence of CPD and ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality health care for children with medical needs in Ealing special schools.
• Lead and support health care assistants and school staff in clinical areas.
• Work with families and partners to improve health outcomes for children.

Skills

NMC/registration

Numeracy skills

CPD evidence

Communication in team

Partnership working

Record keeping

Professional conduct

Education

RNChild / LD Nurse / Community Children’s Nurse

Tools

Mentorship qualification

Epilepsy PET 1 & 2

Prescribing course (Independent & Supplementary)

Job description

Education And Qualifications

Essential criteria

Job Overview

We are looking to recruit a Special School Nurse (Band 5 or 6) to provide specialist health care support for children and young people with medical needs for the Ealing Special schools. We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic staff who are able to work to work autonomously and provide leadership for HCA's. Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you have the enthusiasm to join the well established team and support transformation? Currently the Special School Nursing Team are based in the schools, working Monday to Friday 8.00-16.00, Term Time Contract/Full time.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for providing an excellent, high quality service to the children of Ealing who have additional needs and support one or several of the special schools in Ealing. Your work will entail working closely with children, their parent/carers and key partners to improve health outcomes and support children with special needs to achieve their full potential within all settings; at home, community and at school. Good communication and working relationships with the school staff and school leadership team is an essential part of the role.

We welcome applications from children's or learning disability nurses with experience or interest in working with children with additional needs.

Working for our organisation

Together with job satisfaction, we can offer training, support and clinical supervision. If you want to join a team where your contribution is valued and where you have the opportunity to make a real difference in peoples lives, then we would like to hear from you. Candidates are welcome to arrange informal visits to the special schools in by contacting Emma Lynch.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Special School Nurses work closely with the people who use our services and their families. Families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Special School Nurses are expected to be kind and responsive, but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:

• Keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
• Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures
• Ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process

We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Special School nurses work as part of a team and you will contribute to the success of the team by being an effective role model to healthcare assistants/ support workers/school staff and students to ensure they are working to the standards which the people using our services deserve.

Person specification

Education And Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NMC Registered nurse - RNChild / LD Nurse / Community Children’s Nurse
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development

Desirable criteria

• Mentorship qualification
• Epilepsy PET 1 & 2 course
• Independent & Supplementary Prescribing Course

Previous Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous experience as a Band 6 in children’s services or a Band 5 nurse with significant experience in clinical setting catering for children.
• Recent experience with children’s nursing within acute/community or school setting/ children nursing.

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience working in Special school
• Community experience

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Able to demonstrate partnership working with agencies
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
• Able to maintain electronic patient records Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing
• You are expected to have the skills required to act as a professional, registered nurse and adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct.

Desirable criteria

• Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
• Intravenous Training (theory & practice)
• Awareness of the health needs of children and young people
• An understanding of clinical governance framework in relation to practice
• Supervision, Line management and appraisal training

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential criteria

• Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
• Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
• Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to carry out the duties of the post with or without adaptions
• Able to work efficiently in the community

Desirable criteria

• Access to Car or other motor vehicle for use for work purposes