Specialist School Nurse

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic Specialist School Nurse for Cedar House at St. Michael's Community Hospital.

The role supports Enfield special schools and works across sites in a multi-agency context, delivering expert nursing care for children and young people with complex health needs. Ideal candidates are experienced children’s nurses who can work autonomously within a team, with exposure to acute and community services.

Qualifications

• Experienced children’s nurse with interest in specialist school nursing.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Experience in acute and community children’s services desirable.

Responsibilities

• Support Enfield special schools to manage health needs of CYP with complex health needs.
• Coordinate care between doctors, specialist nurses, allied health professionals and school staff.
• Provide information, support, advice and training for families and school staff.
• Cover weekly duty shifts rota as part of the Specialist School Nursing Team.
• Conduct home and community visits as part of holistic case management.

Skills

Specialist School Nursing

Autonomous working

Teamwork

Leadership

Job description

We are seeking to appoint dynamic and enthusiastic candidates to the role of Specialist School Nurse role, located at Cedar House, within our St. Michael's Community Hospital site within the Specialist School Nursing team. The weekly hours for this role will be agreed at interview for the successful candidate.

Please Note

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. The successful applicant may not work in Paediatrics upon completing their apprenticeship should no vacancies be present.

With the expansion of the Specialist School Nursing Team, there is an opportunity for experienced children’s nurses with an interest in specialist school nursing to join our Babies, Children and Young People Division. The service currently covers the Borough of Enfield and includes 7 Specialist School providers based over multiple sites.

The role is ideal for an experienced children’s nurse, with robust clinical skills who is able to work autonomously and as part of a team. Experience working in acute and community children’s services is desirable.

Currently there are approximately 1400 children in total ranging from 3 to 19 years old attending the Special Schools. The children have long‐term complex medical, neurological illnesses, mental health illnesses and some have learning disabilities.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting Enfield special schools to manage the health needs of children and young people with complex health needs profound learning disabilities, social and emotional needs. This role involves working in partnership with school staff and multi‐agency staff and working across sites. They will cover the duty shifts rota on a weekly basis as part of the team.

The Special School Nursing Team are responsible for the assessment, delivery and co‐ordination of nursing care for children with special educational needs who attend the designated special schools.

Acting in a leadership role, the post holder will coordinate care between doctors, specialist nurses, allied health professionals, school staff, parents and carers to ensure seamless health care is provided for CYP. The post holder will also act as a source of information, support, advice and training for families and school staff. Some home visits and other community visits will be carried out as part of holistic case management.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Angela Pearce Job title: Clinical Team Leader - Specialist School Nursing Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0208 887 2000