Senior Nurse for: Special Needs School Nursing
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Job summary
You will be a highly motivated and enthusiastic RN child, RSCN trained nurse with relevant paediatric and special needs school nursing experience, wishing to expand your knowledge and skills of working with children within the special needs school setting. You will impart specialist knowledge and advice across a range of health and social care issues, utilising evidence based research. As a Band 6, senior nurse for Special Needs School Nursing you will manage your own defined safeguarding caseload in conjunction with the Band 5 nurses, acting as a key worker for vulnerable children instigating safeguarding procedures as required.
You will work primarily within the Pennine special school nursing team, working closely with the named school nurses but as part of the role there may be the requirement at times to work across the LSCFT special school footprint. You will have line management responsibilities for the Band 5 staff nurses working within the designated schools in the named locality with support from the team leader.
It is essential that you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to work in partnership with the child's parents', teachers and other health care professionals, offering support and advice to education staff on health related issues that affect the children within the school setting.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of the children's complex needs nursing team providing a service for children referred for assessment and intervention within the special needs school nursing team.
To be responsible for a caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs.
To undertake comprehensive assessment of children and young people with varied presentations, using self-determined investigative and analytical skills, to formulate hypotheses in order to determine appropriate interventions and goals.
To establish individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilising a range of evidence based treatment skills and options to formulate interventions and programmes of care.
To participate in the co-ordination, development and delivery of training programmes and information packages for colleagues in health, education, social care, and voluntary sector Organisations, and parents/carers.
Act as special needs school nursing lead for safeguarding issues within designated schools
To participate in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.
To engage with and support team leaders within professional development activities.
To provide specialist advice to Team Colleagues in area of own practice regarding specific service delivery issues.
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
Details
Date posted
03 July 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year pa pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
351-PEN869-CL
Job locations
Special Schools Nursing Team
St Peters Centre
Burnley
BB11 2DL
Employer details
Employer name
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Special Schools Nursing Team
St Peters Centre
Burnley
BB11 2DL
Employer's website
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