Job vacancy: Bank School Nurse, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Londons

Job summary

Main area: Nursing
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Bank
Hours: Flexible working - various
Job ref: 824-BANK-LIT1202

Employer: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Lavender Steers Mead Children's Centre,
Town: Londons
Salary: £21.88 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
Salary period: Hourly
Closing: 08/11/2024 16:00

Bank School Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical

To assess the health needs of children and young people in special schools and, agree individual and school health plans and deliver these through multidisciplinary partnerships.

To deliver the day-to-day Special School Nursing Service to children with complex health needs at the Special Needs School.

To provide skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with complex care needs including technology dependent children.

To participate in direct clinical input to ensure appropriate nursing interventions. To promote the optimum use of available resources and to secure the highest standards of care to both primary and secondary age students.

To provide information and support to facilitate the child’s and family’s own choices with regards to nursing care and therapy input.

To administer medication as prescribed and ensure safe storage of medicines in accordance with CLCH policy

To deliver and manage training needs of school and health staff in the delivery of health care to children in the school, through the agreed competency based training packages, including assessment and sign off competency of staff members.

To manage the provision of continence products to children and young people in the school, working alongside the family and support workers.

To ensure safe handling of body fluids and contaminated sharps in personal practice and within the team

To target disadvantaged or underrepresented children who may not have had a full child health service before starting school.

To support and advise team members on developing initiatives relating to the public health agenda for schools with special needs children

To plan, participate or support the delivery of multi-disciplinary sessions/ clinics for the children in the school.

To coordinate children for medicals working in partnership with the child, parents, school staff, Community Paediatricians, and Allied Health Professionals (AHP).

To empower parents by providing information and support to facilitate them in making healthy life choices regarding their child’s welfare in a way which is appropriate for them

Develop and maintain a good working relationship with teachers and other professionals and agencies involved, making referrals where appropriate to ensure adequate support for children and parents.

To liaise with the Children’s Community Nursing Service in providing care to children with complex health needs

To work in partnership to safeguard children and young people adhering to local and national policies and guidance, participating in child protection case conferences and associated meetings according to LSCB and Trust Policies.

To maintain accurate, systematic and timely record keeping, in line with NMC guidelines, including recording of clinical data on EMIS.

To work as an autonomous and specialist practitioner within the special schools nursing team

Person specification

Essential and Desirable

Essential criteria

RN
Experience of negotiating and liaising with a multi-agency or school senior leadership team
Experience of leading/ setting up or implementing training for a variety of staff groups eg; school/ health/ respite/ parents
Knowledge of national policies for children and families
Evidence of recent professional development related to SEN

Desirable criteria

Practice Teacher
Experience in School Health/ MDT school setting
Experience in transitioning e.g. early years to primary and children and young people to adult services.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Shanelle Gree
Job title: Bank Recruitment Business Partner
Email address: [email protected]

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NHS AfC: Band 6

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