East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Nurse Team Leader - SEN Schools

The closing date is 05 December 2025

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Special Schools Nurse Team Leader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This is an exciting opportunity for a compassionate, highly motivated, and forward-thinking nurse with experience in working with children with special education needs and disability.

We provide health care support for children and young people with medical needs across our four Special Schools within East & North Hertfordshire. This role is to cover the team leader role at Lonsdale School, Stevenage for 3 days a week and Greenside School, Stevenage for 1 day a week, term time only.

We are a flexible and supportive team and will consider a full time/non term time position and school working hours. The post will involve working across the four special schools within East & North Hertfordshire.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be working collaboratively with children, families, carers, school staff and the wider multi-disciplinary team within the education setting to ensure a supportive and caring learning environment.

You will be responsible for co-ordinating & leading the nursing team at an allocated school site and provide support to the wider special school nursing team.

You will be passionate about providing compassionate care in a school setting, have excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

You will be responsible for providing advice and support to families and education staff and providing training and competency assessments to education staff.

The role will include teaching/training and supporting the school team in meeting and maintaining the health needs of the children and young people attending school.

This role requires you to be flexible in a constantly changing environment and to respond to emergency needs as they arise.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

o The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

o New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

o Hertford County, Hertford

o Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Details

Date posted

21 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum-pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Term time hours, Annualised hours

Reference number

361-7620749

Job locations

Lonsdale School

Brittain Way

Stevenage

SG2 8UT


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential

  • RN Child/RSCN/ LD with specific CYP experience
  • Mentor Preparation
  • Degree in Nursing or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Management and leadership qualification

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Experience of staff leadership
  • Evidence of professional development
  • Experienced Clinical Nurse
  • Experience of working with children and young people with special needs
  • Experience of teaching others
  • Ability to work well in stressful situations

Desirable

  • Experience of staff leadership in a community setting

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Board range of clinical skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Ability to organize the workload, able to delegate and prioritize.
  • Computer literate
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Teaching skills

Desirable

  • Ability to lead and manage a team
  • Good knowledge of health and safety and risk management

Knowledge

Essential

  • In depth knowledge of the care of CYP with complex needs
  • Good understanding of CYP issues
  • Good understanding of community health services
  • Good understanding of current nursing workforce issues
  • Understanding of current NHS & professional nursing issues
  • Understanding of child protection procedures

Desirable

  • Leadership knowledge

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
  • Role model our Trust values every day
  • Ability to travel between sites
  • Ability to work well in stressful situations.
  • Innovative
Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential

  • RN Child/RSCN/ LD with specific CYP experience
  • Mentor Preparation
  • Degree in Nursing or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Management and leadership qualification

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Experience of staff leadership
  • Evidence of professional development
  • Experienced Clinical Nurse
  • Experience of working with children and young people with special needs
  • Experience of teaching others
  • Ability to work well in stressful situations

Desirable

  • Experience of staff leadership in a community setting

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Board range of clinical skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Ability to organize the workload, able to delegate and prioritize.
  • Computer literate
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Teaching skills

Desirable

  • Ability to lead and manage a team
  • Good knowledge of health and safety and risk management

Knowledge

Essential

  • In depth knowledge of the care of CYP with complex needs
  • Good understanding of CYP issues
  • Good understanding of community health services
  • Good understanding of current nursing workforce issues
  • Understanding of current NHS & professional nursing issues
  • Understanding of child protection procedures

Desirable

  • Leadership knowledge

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
  • Role model our Trust values every day
  • Ability to travel between sites
  • Ability to work well in stressful situations.
  • Innovative

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lonsdale School

Brittain Way

Stevenage

SG2 8UT


Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lonsdale School

Brittain Way

Stevenage

SG2 8UT


Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Nurse Team Manager

Becca Marsh

rebecca.marsh4@nhs.net

07721838214

Details

Date posted

21 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum-pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Term time hours, Annualised hours

Reference number

361-7620749

Job locations

Lonsdale School

Brittain Way

Stevenage

SG2 8UT


Supporting documents

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