Special School Nurse Band 5

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; North Hillingdon; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Band 5 Special School Nurse to provide specialist health care support for children and young people with medical needs across Hillingdon special schools.

The post requires autonomy, leadership for HCAs, and the ability to work closely with children, families and school staff to improve health outcomes and support education in home, community and school settings.

Qualifications

• Autonomous working and leadership of HCAs.
• Experience or interest in working with children with additional needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist health care support for children and young people with medical needs.
• Collaborate with children, families and key partners to improve health outcomes in home, community and school settings.
• Support service transformation and high-quality care in the special schools.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Autonomy

Education

Nursing degree

Job description

We are looking to recruit a Special School Nurse (Band 5 ) to provide specialist health care support for children and young people with medical needs for the Hillingdon 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., You will be responsible for providing an excellent, high quality service to the children of Hillingdon who have additional needs and support one or several of the special schools in Hillingdon. 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.

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 Ghazala Hussain.

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.