Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - various
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-LIT1406
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Barnet Special Schools
- Town
- Barnet
- Salary
- £15.69 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 24/04/2025 16:00
Employer heading
Bank Special School Nursing Assistant NC
NHS AfC: Band 4
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.
At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.
Job overview
Job Purpose
- To work in partnership with the children and young people, families and carers liaising with members of the health and education teams to achieve the maximum outcomes and optimum health and educational achievement for students in Special schools.
- To promote health within special schools, to encourage each child or young person to develop responsibility for his/her own health to fulfil their potential.
- To undertake training required, becoming clinically competent in providing holistic care for children/young people in a special school setting.
Main duties of the job
· To be aware of the importance of professionalism and boundaries when working closely with families
· To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team in the interests of the student and the wider community.
· To carry out essential health procedures on students with care, sensitivity and using communication strategies specific to each students needs
· To complete episodes of care which are detailed in the student’s health care plan and meet their health needs, escalating any concerns to the line manager.
· To be able to write clear, legible reports, clinical notes and review students individual health care plans in line with school and CLCH record keeping policies.
· To demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 by contributing to the health, safety and security of individuals in their environment
Working for our organisation
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
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stay well
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manage their own health with the right support
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avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Be an effective communicator, using tact and empathy, to ensure that a high standard of care is given to the child and family.
· Manage stock levels of equipment within the school, liaising with correct channels for ordering disposable supplies in a timely manner, ensuring there is always sufficient stock available for the nurising team.
· Be responsible for the care of electrical equipment, such as blood pressure machines, saturation monitors and scales, ensuring the care and maintenance of such equipment is regulated and they are in good working order.
· Following training, be responsible for the continence assessments for children requiring continence products, ensuring assessments are carried out 6 monthly with all paperwork completed and returned to provider
· Be responsible for trouble shooting any problems with continence product deliveries for individual children
· Maintain accurate clinical records using the documentation processes of SystmOne.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development working with children up to NVQ level 3
- Care certificate – or working towards this
- Competencies in clinical care skills
- Knowledge of safeguarding children
Desirable criteria
- Diploma Level (or NVQ4 in Health & Social Care) or Equivalent Combination of NVQ3, courses and experience or NNEB equivalency
- Makaton/BSL course
- Medicine management course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people with complex health needs
- Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people in a special school environment.
- Experience of documentation in a clinical setting
- Experience of liaising with professionals
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in culturally diverse communities
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills with children/young people who have different modes of communication
- Evidence of ability to use initiative
- Competence to administer medication
- Demonstrate computer literacy in programs such as excel, word, power point Experience of enteral
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in culturally diverse communities
- Knowledge of purpose and value of clinical supervision
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shanelle Gree
- Job title
- Bank Recruitment Business Partner
- Email address
- shanelle.green@nhs.net
- Telephone number
- 0203 937 8322
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