Bank Special School Nurse B7 NC (NHS AfC: Band 7) - Nursing - Central London Community Healthca[...]

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 14 London Boroughs. 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.

Job Overview:

To provide clinical leadership to the Special School Nursing Team in Brent, including line management.

Main Duties of the Job:

• Provide clinical leadership within the specialist field ensuring that this reflects national and local policies and targets.
• Direct line management responsibility for a team of specialist clinicians and team, including students and new staff.
• To develop and maintain policies, protocols and evidenced based guidelines.
• To maintain accurate records and statistical returns as required by CLCH.
• To participate in relevant meetings with professionals, families and discharge planning meetings as required.
• To ensure effective communication with families including the provision of interpreters for parents and children who require support with the English language.
• To work with relevant services for children with Special Needs and additional health needs across Central London Community Healthcare.
• To ensure a comprehensive care plan is in place for each child and family.
• To signpost/refer families to other professionals/agencies who are able to provide a service to their child, or the wider family.
• To identify any gaps in service provision and ensure that appropriate escalation occurs via line management.
• To provide, or facilitate the provision of, expert training if appropriate/as required in areas of need for the child or family.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities:

• To assess the health needs of children and school community, agree individual and school health plans and deliver these through multidisciplinary partnerships.
• To organise the day to day Special School Nursing Service to children with complex health needs at the Special Needs Schools.
• 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 and screening interventions.
• To provide information and support to facilitate the child’s and family’s own choices with regards to nursing care.
• To administer medication as prescribed and ensure safe storage of medicines in accordance to CLCH policy in Special Schools.
• To deliver and manage training needs of school and health staff in the delivery of health care to children in the school.

Person Specification:

• Registered Nurse (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.
• Knowledge of national policies for children and families.
• Evidence of recent professional development related to SEN.
• 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.

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.