Lead Nurse for Special School Nursing & Mainstream School Training

Job overview

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Community Children’s Nurse to work in the special school nursing team as a clinical lead.

The role will be integrated within the existing Specialist Community Children’s Nursing Team, who are part of an integrated network of services for children and young people in Bexley and Greenwich providing high quality specialist child centred care. The team of specialist and generic children’s community nurses provides skilled, high quality, comprehensive nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.

Main duties of the job

• To lead, and oversee the daily operations of the special school nursing team.
• To create, and implement an annual training plan for both special school, and mainstream school staff for clinical interventions.
• To role model good clinical practice, while managing junior staff and supporting a complex caseload of children and young people.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for contributing towards ongoing developments of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including policies, protocols, guidelines and collaborate with the wider multidisciplinary team implementing acute pathways between the hospitals, GP and diagnostic hubs into the community.The post holder will provide a high standard of evidenced based nursing care for children and young people with the following conditions: children with disabilities and complex conditions including those requiring palliative and end of life care.

To provide clear visible leadership supervision, caseload management and professional clinical expertise to the nurses, nursery nurses and healthcare assistants in the team, to ensure every aspect of the child and families experience is delivered in a safe, efficient and evidence-based manner.