School Nurse Specialist, Social Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties

We care for you as much as you care for others. There’s a place for you at CNWL. We’re passionate about delivering first‑class patient‑centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run. Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

An opportunity has arisen for a specialist school nurse to help improve the School Nursing Support that we offer to the H3 Federation schools (Harmood School and Heath School); Gloucester House; and Robson House. These units provide education for the following groups of children who are at risk of not achieving positive outcomes:

• children and young people with special educational needs
• children and young people with emotional, behavioural and social difficulties who are struggling or who have been excluded from mainstream schools.

Main duties of the job: You will be supported by a skill mix team of school nursing professionals to deliver the ‘Healthy Child Programme From 5-19 years old (DOH 2009)’. The post holder will work in partnership with professionals from multiple agencies to meet the health needs of this specific population of children and young people, together with their families and the wider community where this is relevant. You will be responsible for the coordination of the health needs of any Camden children who are under a Child Protection plan who are not currently attending a Local Authority maintained school. The nurse we are recruiting will have sufficient post registration experience in a children’s/paediatric setting to allow effective multi agency working in settings like the H3 Federation schools and Robson House.

The person will be experienced at working with diverse communities, and of working with children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. Experience of supporting children with complex needs such as child protection and mental/emotional health issues is also essential.

Education and Qualifications:

• Evidence of CPD in appropriate field
• Specialist Community Public Health (SCPHN) qualification
• RGN/RN, RCN / RMN
• Specialist Sexual Health or Substance Misuse Training.

Previous Experience:

• Sufficient post registration experience in a children’s/paediatric setting to allow effective multi agency working in PRU settings.
• Working with diverse communities
• Significant experience of working with children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
• Experience of supporting children with complex needs such as child protection and mental/emotional health.
• Experience of working in multi agency/integrated teams
• Experience of work within a Pupil Referral Unit
• Mentorship / Teaching or Preceptorship for students or newly qualified staff.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Excellent written and verbal communications, including ability to communicate with a diversity of people
• IT Literacy
• Knowledge of current Public Health Outcome Framework
• Knowledge of children’s special needs eg emotional health, educational support etc
• Equalities and Valuing Diversity
• Quality Monitoring including audit, risk management and indicators of effective practice

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. 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.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible. Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.

Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period. If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

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.