Band 5 Special School Nurse

Job overview

Would you like an opportunity to join a community based nursing team?

This post will be working across the city-wide special school nursing service implementing and delivering specialist nursing care in a special school environment. The successful candidate will be required to carry out assessments; provide both planned and responsive clinical care and ensure that local safeguarding policies are adhered to.

They will be identified as a role model for the Band 5 Special School Nurses and Enteral Feeding Assistants and will also support education staff and offer advice and support to parents and pupils.

We would welcome applications from enthusiastic committed children’s nurses with proven clinical experience who have excellent communication skills and are able to manage their time effectively.

An understanding of the needs of children and young people with disability and/or additional health problems is essential.

You will be working 30 hours per week, on a term time only contract and will be required to move around to different bases across the city.

Main duties of the job

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Work sponsorship to work in the UK are not supported and will not be considered alongside all other applications.

The post holder will work as part of a team to participate in the delivery of health care and promote the health and welfare of children attending Special Schools and to acknowledge and respect the individual rights and personal dignity of the students.

The post holder will work autonomously within their sphere of professional practice, working within teams and service guidelines and objectives.

To be involved in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individual care needs in line with the core offer of service.

To take charge of a designated area in the absence of the band 6 Special School Nurse.

To support  the teaching of competencies to nursing and education staff.

To ensure high quality core offer from the Special School Nursing Service consists of:

• assessment and review
• hands on clinical care
• key worker and signposting including transition
• training and supervision, and
• a general role in optimising long term health and lifestyles

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties

• Designated by the band 6 Special School Nurse to act as the named nurse for one or more Schools within a quadrant grouping providing health surveillance specialist advice and clinical programmes of care.
• To assess care needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
• To carry out prescribed nursing interventions as per the care plan under the direction of the Special School Nurse. Each care plan will identify:-
• Existing clinical needs and how and by whom these will be met.
• Monitoring the child’s growth and development in line with the Healthy Child Programme.
• Progress against the plan, expected outcomes and timescales.
• Safeguarding needs.
• The care plan will be made available to sit alongside and complement the child’s individual Education Plan (IEP).