Special School Nurses

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

CNWL NHS Trust is recruiting a Special School Nurse (Band 5 or 6) to deliver specialist health care for children in Ealing Special Schools. The role involves autonomous practice, leadership of HCAs, and collaboration with families and partners to improve health outcomes across home, community and school settings.

The post requires NHS experience in pediatric services, strong clinical governance, and effective communication with school leadership.

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Nurse with child/learning disability focus or community experience.
• Numeracy skills required for safe medicine administration.
• Evidence of CPD and mentorship qualification.
• Independent & Supplementary Prescribing training or qualification.
• Experience as Band 6 in children's services or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist health care to children and young people with medical needs in Ealing Special Schools.
• Lead and support HCAs, school staff and partners to improve health outcomes.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and adhere to CNWL policies.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and families to plan care.

Skills

NMC Registered

Medication maths

CPD & Mentorship

Prescribing training

Band 6 experience

Tools

Microsoft Word

Job description

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., 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., 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.

• 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. 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.

• oNMC Registered nurse - RNChild / LD Nurse / Community Children's Nurse
• oNumeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• oEvidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development, oMentorship qualification
• oEpilepsy PET 1 & 2 course
• oIndependent & Supplementary Prescribing Course, oPrevious experience as a Band 6 in children's services or a Band 5 nurse with significant experience in clinical setting catering for children.
• oRecent experience with children's nursing within acute/community or school setting/ children nursing., oPrevious experience working in Special school
• oCommunity experience, oAble 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.
• oAble to demonstrate partnership working with agencies
• oMaintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
• oAble to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
• oAble to maintain electronic patient records Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing
• oYou are expected to have the skills required to act as a professional, registered nurse and adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct., oExpertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
• oIntravenous Training (theory & practice)
• oAwareness of the health needs of children and young people
• oAn understanding of clinical governance framework in relation to practice
• oSupervision, Line management and appraisal training, oCaring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
• oRespectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
• oAble 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
• oAble and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
  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.