CSH Surrey

Assistant Practitioner

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Job summary

Special school nursing service Portesbery School Deepcut Surrey

Band 4 Assistant Practitioner. Special School Nursing Service

Hours: 26 hours per week over 4 week days 08:40- 15:30 term time only

An opportunity has arisen for an exciting role to support the special school nursing team based at Portesbery School in Deepcut Surrey for pupils aged 2 -19 years who have severe learning disability with additional health needs. Our Nursing Service works in partnership with education staff so they are supported to enable the children and young people to safely attend school irrespective of their additional health needs. We ask that the ideal candidate has experience of working with children with special needs and a passion to make a difference in helping to achieve better health outcomes.

If you are interested in joining our dedicated and highly motivated team of Special School Nurses/Assistant Practitioners who work within the 8 severe learning disability schools across Surrey within this service, we would be very happy to hear from you. We welcome informal visits.

Please see job description for full details of this post.

Please contact Avril Bembridge Clinical Team Lead for Special School Nursing Service Surrey on 07970 939105 for more information.

Main duties of the job

Please refer to the full Job description for information regarding the key responsibilities of this role that include.

Continence assessments and re-assessments and promoting independence around toileting.

Supporting nursing team in training education staff with nursing procedures

Administrative duties

Administration of prescribed medicines.

About us

CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surreys largest and longest established NHS community services provider, so our 1500+ employees get NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%.

Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes.

We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices are heard at Board level. CSH is a diverse organisation, if you are a passionate, person-focused individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying for and if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the named individual for this advert, or our recruitment team.

Date posted

25 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,405 to £28,976 a year inclusive of 5% HCAS pro rata per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working, Term time hours

Reference number

B9074-23-0088

Job locations

Portesbery School

Newfoundland Road

Deepcut

Camberley

Surrey

GU16 6TA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Purpose

Please refer to full job description attached in supporting file.

The post holder will work as a member of the Specialist School Nursing Team, contributing to the provision of high standards of care for children and young people, (aged 2-19 years,) with severe/profound and multiple learning and physical disabilities (complex needs) within a special school environment. The post comprises of a large element of administrative support for the nursing team, including filing, emailing, telephone calls and coordinating school based clinics.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Purpose

Please refer to full job description attached in supporting file.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

At least 1 years experience of working with children
Experience of children with special needs
Experience of dealing with a variety of professionals, peers, personnel on a daily basis.
Experience of providing care in a Health, Social, Education or voluntary setting.
Team working experience
Ability to work in a timely manner and to meet deadlines
Ability to communicate effectively with parents, children and young people
Basic keyboarding skills
Ability to work as an effective team member
Effective written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to accept delegation and work without direct supervision.
Ability to travel for appropriate training.
Willingness to undertake training
Self motivated
Enthusiastic
Sensitive to the needs of individual families.
Approachable
Awareness of confidentiality.

Desirable

Care certificate qualification or equivalent
Experience of working with children with tracheostomy, enteral feeding devices, supplementary oxygen, epilepsy.

Qualifications

Essential

Good general education at least 4 GCSEs or equivalent
Numerate

Desirable

NVQ Level 2 in care or childcare or equivalent
Care certificate
NNEB
NVQ level 3 in childcare

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

At least 1 years experience of working with children
Experience of children with special needs
Experience of dealing with a variety of professionals, peers, personnel on a daily basis.
Experience of providing care in a Health, Social, Education or voluntary setting.
Team working experience
Ability to work in a timely manner and to meet deadlines
Ability to communicate effectively with parents, children and young people
Basic keyboarding skills
Ability to work as an effective team member
Effective written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to accept delegation and work without direct supervision.
Ability to travel for appropriate training.
Willingness to undertake training
Self motivated
Enthusiastic
Sensitive to the needs of individual families.
Approachable
Awareness of confidentiality.

Desirable

Care certificate qualification or equivalent
Experience of working with children with tracheostomy, enteral feeding devices, supplementary oxygen, epilepsy.

Qualifications

Essential

Good general education at least 4 GCSEs or equivalent
Numerate

Desirable

NVQ Level 2 in care or childcare or equivalent
Care certificate
NNEB
NVQ level 3 in childcare

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

CSH Surrey

Address

Portesbery School

Newfoundland Road

Deepcut

Camberley

Surrey

GU16 6TA

Employer's website

https://www.cshsurrey.co.uk/about-us/about-csh-surrey (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

CSH Surrey

Address

Portesbery School

Newfoundland Road

Deepcut

Camberley

Surrey

GU16 6TA

Employer's website

https://www.cshsurrey.co.uk/about-us/about-csh-surrey (Opens in a new tab)