Job summary
Bank Special School Nurse
JOB PURPOSE: Monday to Friday 8-4
To provide clinical leadership to the Special School Nursing Team in Brent, including line management.
Main duties of the job
- Provide clinical leadership within the specialist field ensuring that this reflects national and local policies and targets.
- Direct line management responsibility for a team of specialist clinicians and team, including students and new staff.
- To develop and maintain policies, protocols and evidenced based guidelines
- To maintain accurate records and statistical returns as required by CLCH, including entering data onto the electronic health record.
- To participate in relevant meetings with professionals, families and discharge planning meetings as required.
- To ensure effective communication with families including the provision of interpreters for parents and children who require support with the English language
- To participate in network / special interest groups
- To ensure appropriate action is taken in reporting an accident or incident to a child, family member, staff member or visitor
- To work with relevant services for children with Special Needs and additional health needs across Central London Community Healthcare, ensuring communication at all levels of the Trust
- 1To work with the wider MDT involved with children and young people with SEND including therapists, CCNs, Paediatricians and other non NHS services.
About us
To ensure a comprehensive care plan is in place for each child and family and in turn support education staff to maintain Health Care Plans to facilitate the child's care in community settings such as nursery and school.
To signpost/refer families to other professionals/agencies who are able to provide a service to their child, or the wider family
To attend meetings with the family and professionals when necessary to support the care of the child.
To identify any gaps in service provision and ensure that appropriate escalation occurs via line management
To ensure that all support and care for the family is based on evidence based protocols and policies to enable care to be safely managed at home or school
To provide, or facilitate the provision of, expert training if appropriate/as required in areas of need for the child or family in conjunction with other services like CCN or relevant specialist nurses.
To support Universal services to manage individual children with additional health needs, thereby bridging the knowledge/skills gap
Job description
Job responsibilities
To assess the health needs of children and school community, agree individual and school health plans and deliver these through multidisciplinary partnerships.
To organise the day to day Special School Nursing Service to children with complex health needs at the Special Needs Schools.
To provide skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with complex care needs including technology dependent children.
To participate in direct clinical input to ensure appropriate nursing and screening interventions. To promote the optimum use of available resources and to secure the highest standards of care to both primary and secondary age children.
To provide information and support to facilitate the childs and familys own choices with regards to nursing care
To administer medication as prescribed and ensure safe storage of medicines in accordance to CLCH policy in Special Schools where nurses are based.
To deliver and manage training needs of school and health staff in the delivery of health care to children in the school, through the agreed competency based training packages, including assessment and sign off of competency of staff members.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To assess the health needs of children and school community, agree individual and school health plans and deliver these through multidisciplinary partnerships.
To organise the day to day Special School Nursing Service to children with complex health needs at the Special Needs Schools.
To provide skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with complex care needs including technology dependent children.
To participate in direct clinical input to ensure appropriate nursing and screening interventions. To promote the optimum use of available resources and to secure the highest standards of care to both primary and secondary age children.
To provide information and support to facilitate the childs and familys own choices with regards to nursing care
To administer medication as prescribed and ensure safe storage of medicines in accordance to CLCH policy in Special Schools where nurses are based.
To deliver and manage training needs of school and health staff in the delivery of health care to children in the school, through the agreed competency based training packages, including assessment and sign off of competency of staff members.
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- RN
- Experience of negotiating and liaising with a multi-agency or school senior leadership team
- Experience of leading/ setting up or implementing training for a variety of staff groups eg; school/ health/ respite/ parents
- Knowledge of national policies for children and families
- Evidence of recent professional development related to SEN
Desirable
- Practice Teacher
- Experience in School Health/ MDT school setting
- Experience in transitioning e.g. early years to primary and children and young people to adult services.
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- RN
- Experience of negotiating and liaising with a multi-agency or school senior leadership team
- Experience of leading/ setting up or implementing training for a variety of staff groups eg; school/ health/ respite/ parents
- Knowledge of national policies for children and families
- Evidence of recent professional development related to SEN
Desirable
- Practice Teacher
- Experience in School Health/ MDT school setting
- Experience in transitioning e.g. early years to primary and children and young people to adult services.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
