Specialist School Nurse

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Barking; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Barking is looking for a passionate Band 6 registered nurse for a fixed-term maternity cover role. The position involves supporting children's health needs in schools and working with multidisciplinary teams. The ideal candidate should have a nursing degree, experience with children having additional needs, and excellent communication skills. They will receive full support for professional development in a nurturing environment that promotes diversity and well-being.

Benefits

Continuous professional development plan

Flexible working opportunities

Access to employee assistance programs

Qualifications

• 3 years of post-registration experience in Paediatrics.
• Experience working with children with special educational needs.
• Understanding of SEN guidance and confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Organise your own workload and support day-to-day team needs.
• Deliver training and manage children's health needs.
• Mentor and support junior staff and students.
• Advocate for children with safeguarding concerns.
• Conduct health assessments for Looked After Children.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Care planning for complex needs

Managing a caseload

Use of Rio/Electronic health records

Education

NMC registered Nurse

Maths and English

Job description

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the special school nursing team in Barking and Dagenham for a Band 6 fixed term maternity cover (12 months) position.

The team embodies the NELFT values of being kind, respectful and working together with our communities.

If you are a registered nurse who demonstrates these qualities and is passionate about working with children with additional needs, then we want you to join us.

We are progressive in B&D developing partnership working across the Children's Service to ensure we are able to signpost children to available resources within the borough. Our vision for delivering the Healthy Child Programme, in partnership with key stakeholders is to ensure that every child in B&D has the very best start in life and grows up to be happy, safe, healthy, confident, resilient, to ensure inclusivity of all needs.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated children’s nurse who has the following experience and drive :

• Nursing degree
• Evidence of working with CYP with additional needs
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to travel across the borough

If you are a nurse who is committed to supporting children and young people in B&D, we can offer you strong personal leadership and support. We offer an excellent continuous professional development plan allowing for further career development and progression.

Main duties of the job

The main responsibilities of the post are :

• Being responsible for organising your own workload whilst supporting the team with the day to day allocation of work.
• Supporting children in school with health needs; delivering training, supporting School staff in managing the children's health needs, completing care plans for children requiring emergency or routine medical intervention whilst in school.
• Having a close working relationship with the wider multi-disciplinary teams.
• Act as a mentor and support to junior staff / students.
• Being an advocate for the Children / Young People when there are safeguarding concerns.
• Supporting with Paediatric clinics.
• Completing Looked After Children yearly review health assessments.
• Ensuring new starter assessments are completed prior to new students starting school.
• Undertaking growth reviews for Children.
• Ensuring School staff have a good understanding of relevant health related training and interventions.

Working for our organisation

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

They are :

We are kind.

We are respectful.

We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period.

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15%of the basic salary with a minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941 - per annum (pro rata).

Use of AI

Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.

There is a robust system of managerial, clinical, and safeguarding supervision in place to support all staff. If you are interested in working for us, and can demonstrate that you are a forward thinking individual, working in a solution focused way with the ability to work well within a team as well on your own initiative, then we want to hear from you.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NMC registered Nurse
• Maths and English

Desirable criteria

• SCPHN

Experience

• 3 years post reg experience in Paediatrics
• Safeguarding Children Experience
• Experience working with children with SEN

Knowledge

• Understanding SEN guidance / legislation
• NELFT values
• Confidentiality (Information governance)

Skills

• Care planning for complex needs
• Managing a caseload / Working autonomously
• Communication - MDT etc
• Use of Rio / Electronic health records

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT :

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term / chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.