# Special School Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Whittington Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/special-school-nurse/89efb2c4-e5e2-4e3c-9686-b0003edc8ba9 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/special-school-nurse/89efb2c4-e5e2-4e3c-9686-b0003edc8ba9.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Whittington Health NHS Trust - **Location:** The Whittington Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** School nurse - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 0 - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-08T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-25T13:20:36.215Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Islington/Whittington_Health_NHS_Trust/Special_School_Nurse/Special_School_Nurse-v8226844 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8226844?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.whittington.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The post holder will be the lead for safeguarding in the Islington School Nursing team; working independently to manage a designated caseload of children and young people attending the Alternative Provisions (AP) in Islington and the Elected Home Educated (EHE) caseload. The post holder will be expected to complete initial health assessments for all children and young people registered with the respective services; deliver one-one and/or group sessions on a range of health promotion topics, particularly relating to lifestyle choices; deliver the core Healthy Child Programme (0-19),in line with mainstream school nursing. The post holder will carry individual cases of children needing direct support and monitoring including safeguarding concerns. The post holder will work closely with children, young people, parents/carers and staff within the AP/EHE teams in planning interventions and supporting referral on to other agencies where necessary. ### Main duties of the job 1.To be the named school nurse for the Alterative Provisions in Islington and Elective Home Educated Caseload. 2.To work in collaboration with key staff and partners working within the Islington APS and EHE teams. 3.To provide initial health assessments to all young people entering the services with an annual review as appropriate. 4.To act as the lead professional ensuring entry into early intervention, or referral onto specialist services such as sexual health, substance misuse, speech and language therapy, smoking cessation and CAMHS. 5.To take the lead for Safeguarding within the SN team, being responsible for maintaining up to date knowledge in this field and passing information to the whole service and supporting the team with safeguarding caseload management. 6.In this clinical area to develop, implement and maintain standards and protocols, complete audits and complete the annual service report. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The postholder will be the lead for safeguarding in the Islington School nursing team. they will manage a designated w workload of children and young people attending the Alternative Provisions in Islington and the Elected Home Educated caseload. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Qualites **Essential** - Ability to work as part of an integrated team across professional boundaries - Commitment to development of excellent services which focus on improved outcomes **Desirable** - Understanding of issues relating to equality and diversity on the health care ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - High levels of clinical skills with the ability to identify, respond and evaluate health needs - Evidence of applciation of high levels of skills relating to emotional and physical well being of an adolescent - Understanding of safeguarding process and child protection procedures to make decisions for the children **Desirable** - Evidence of ability to work across agencies to support a whole systems approach - Excellent communications skills both IT and written - Evidence of identification of assessing the children and families experiencing the different school environment ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - School nurse: Professional Qualification. 3rd part of the NMC register - Educated to MSc. PG Level or equivalent **Desirable** - Nurse Prescriber - Immunisation module Training - Health Promotion ### Knowledge and experience **Essential** - Knowledge and Experience of how to structure and deliver a training programme at all staff levels - Knowlegde of current legislation and national guidance relating to all aspects of the Healthy Child Programme - Knowledge and expedience in applying audit and quality improvement to support change **Desirable** - Experience in working in a pupil referral unit - Experience of working with children and young people educated at home ## Documents - [special school nurse - jd/ps (pdf, 368.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10566248) - [whittington employment promise (pdf, 22.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=839) - [whittington probationary policy (pdf, 298.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=621) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.