Special School Nurse

Education And Qualifications

Essential criteria

We are looking to recruit a Special School Nurse (Band 5 or
6) to provide specialist health care support for children and young people with medical needs for the Ealing Special schools. We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic staff who are able to work to work autonomously and provide leadership for HCA's. Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you have the enthusiasm to join the well established team and support transformation?

Currently the Special School Nursing Team are based in the schools, working Monday to Friday , Term Time Contract/Full time.

You will be responsible for providing an excellent, high quality service to the children of Ealing who have additional needs and support one or several of the special schools in Ealing. Your work will entail working closely with children, their parent/carers and key partners to improve health outcomes and support children with special needs to achieve their full potential within all settings;

at home, community and d communication and working relationships with the school staff and school leadership team is an essential part of the role.

We welcome applications from children's or learning disability nurses with experience or interest in working with children with additional needs.

Together with job satisfaction, we can offer training, support and clinical supervision. If you want to join a team where your contribution is valued and where you have the opportunity to make a real difference in peoples lives, then we would like to hear from you. Candidates are welcome to arrange informal visits to the special schools in by contacting Emma Lynch.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Special School Nurses work closely with the people who use our services and their families. Families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Special School Nurses are expected to be kind and responsive, but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:

• Keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
• Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures
• Ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process

We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Special School nurses work as part of a team and you will contribute to the success of the team by being an effective role model to healthcare assistants/ support workers/school staff and students to ensure they are working to the standards which the people using our services deserve.

Essential criteria

• NMC Registered nurse - RNChild / LD Nurse / Community Children’s Nurse
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development

Desirable criteria

• Mentorship qualification
• Epilepsy PET 1 & 2 course
• Independent & Supplementary Prescribing Course

Essential criteria

• Previous experience as a Band 6 in children’s services or a Band 5 nurse with significant experience in…