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Medical Protection Advertisement

Location
Salary
£42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Profession
School nurse
Grade
Band 6
Deadline
20 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent: Full time or term time
Posted Date
10 Jul 2025

Job overview

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Special School Nursing Team within the borough of Barnet. We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Special School Nurse (Band 6) who is looking to develop their skills in the largest community healthcare trust in London.

The Special School Nursing Team are looking for a caring individual to work within a team supporting children and young people from 4-19 years who have a range of learning disabilities and complex health needs. The nursing team works closely with education and other agencies to ensure the children achieve their full potential in school.

You will be an experienced registered nurse, trained in children's nursing, adult nursing or learning disability nursing, and have up to date clinical nursing skills to care for children with complex health needs such as epilepsy, enteral feeding, and administration of medications. You will have excellent communication skills, be flexible to the needs of the children and the service and have good organisational skills. You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of safeguarding and be confident in delivering training to school staff and carers.

As a team we strive to ensure a high-quality service for children, young people, their parents and the professional colleagues involved and would welcome you to this very rewarding role.

Main duties of the job

  • To work as part of the Special School Nursing Team taking overall responsibility for the assessment, provision, management and evaluation of evidenced based nursing care to children in the Special  Schools.
  • To work as part of the Special School Nursing team, to provide day to day management of the care worker staff, equipment and clinical resources in the schools, in line with professional standards and quality of care.
  • To take responsibility for training relevant support staff and care worker staff, in line with agreed competency based training packages.
  • To provide clinical input to the school management boards for school-wide issues.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.