Special School nurses

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 nurse to join the Special School Nursing Service in Hillingdon. You will work with the Children's Community Nursing Team, collaborating with school staff, families and other health professionals to support children and young people aged 3–19 with complex health needs in a school setting.

The role focuses on sound clinical skills, risk assessments and delivering care plans in partnership with multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in a school or pediatric nursing setting.
• Experience with children with complex health needs.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams across multiple sites.

Responsibilities

• Assess the health needs of children/young people in a school setting and develop individual health care plans with multidisciplinary partners.
• Organise day-to-day Special School Nursing Services for children in Special Needs Schools and support school staff.
• Ensure best clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and evidence-based policies and procedures.
• Supervise Band 5 nurses, healthcare assistants, support workers and students to maintain standards.

Skills

Special School Nursing

Clinical Skills

Communication skills

Risk assessment

Autonomous working

Team collaboration

Job description

We currently have an exciting opportunity forBand 6 nurse to join the Special School Nursing Servicewhich is part of Hillingdon's Community Children's Nursing Team (CCNT). The Special school nurses will work closely with the children/young people who use our services, 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 children/young people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessmentsresponsible for implementing assessments, management of medical clinics, supporting school staff on clinical care, management of medication ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and proceduresensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process

You will be part of the Children's Community Nursing Team (CCNT) in Hillingdon, working closely with the children's nurses, school staff, other allied health professionals and medical staff at Hillingdon Hospital as well as the specialist dietitian.. You will also be part of a wider peer supervision group of children's nurses to support evidence based practice and innovation.

We are a flexible and friendly team, who are keen to provide you the working environment for you to thrive and progress in.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. 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.

• To assess the health needs of children/young people within a school setting, agree individual school health care plans and deliver these through multidisciplinary partnerships
• To organise the day to day Special School Nursing Services to children within the Special Needs Schools, through supporting the school staff.
• To ensure the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures.

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 and supervising other Band 5 nurses, healthcare assistants/ support workers and students to ensure they are working to the standards which the people using our services deserve.

We are looking for a nurse who is highly motivated, enthusiastic and caring, to work within a team supporting children & Young people from 3-19 years who have a range of learning disabilities and complex health needs such as epilepsy, enteral feeding and oxygen dependent children. You will be allocated a named school but will berequired to work across any of the 5 sites. The team works closely with other multi-disciplinary agencies and the schools to ensure the children reach their full potential.

The candidate should have previous experience of working with children with complex health needs, excellent communication skills and be highly motivated. They should also have aflexible approach, able to work autonomously to deliver the service to the local children. An understanding of safeguarding and working with vulnerable families is required.

You will be supported by the special school nurses in the team and the CCNT.

Please note that annual leave is to be taken out of term time except in exceptional circumstances.

If you are passionate about improving the health of young people we want to hear from you.