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Special Schools Nurse
2 months ago
About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic School Nurse to join our Islington Special Schools Nursing Team. As a key member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will work closely with children, young people, parents, carers, families, school staff, social care, and health colleagues to support pupils to achieve their potential at home, at school, and in their communities.
Main Responsibilities
- Assess the health needs of children and young people entering special schools in consultation with health visitors, school nurse colleagues, and other health professionals as appropriate.
- Participate and contribute to agreed health surveillance programmes in special schools, including annual health reviews, assessing overall developmental progress, and health needs.
- Maintain up-to-date accurate health records for all school children and young people and ensure recommendations regarding referrals, treatment, and/or review are carried out.
- Produce written statements of nursing need and care plans as required.
- Work in partnership with other agencies to identify children and young people in need and those on child protection plans, liaising with school staff and social workers.
- Monitor vulnerable children and young people with child protection issues, attend child protection case conferences, reviews, and core group meetings, and provide written reports.
- Be responsible for report writing and effective record keeping, facilitating best practice.
- Prepare and attend meetings for child protection supervision with safeguarding advisors.
- Liaise with the Disabled Children's Team concerning the care and support for pupils and their parents, carers, and families.
- Monitor the health and wellbeing of Looked After Children on the school caseload and liaise with Looked After Children nurses assisting with annual reviews when needed.
- Arrange appointments with pupils, parents/carers for school medicals, dietician, and professionals meetings.
- Complete relevant continence assessments and support pupils, parents, carers, families, and school staff with toilet training and continence.
- Be involved in training and competency assessing healthcare assistants in procedures relevant to their role, such as medication administration, administering enteral feeds, height and weight measurements, and updating these annually.
- Provide training and support to parents, carers, and school staff on various topics around the management of children and young people with special needs and be involved with assessing and recording school staff competencies.
- Undertake height and weight monitoring to identify and refer any concerns arising from growth screening.
- Coordinate the planning and implementation of immunisation sessions within the school setting in consultation with the immunisation team.
- Act in an advisory capacity to trained school first aiders in the event of a more serious injury to a child, broken bone, severe asthma attack, seizure management, etc.
- Attend relevant team and service meetings.
- Ensure all nursing equipment is clean, safe to use, and in good repair, and that annual maintenance and calibration are carried out and recorded, and records are kept and available for inspection.
- Complete risk assessments of environment and safety under the guidance of senior team members following Whittington Health NHS Trust policies.
About Us
Whittington Health is an award-winning organisation delivering acute and community-based health services to a population of 443,000 people. We are the biggest employer in the area, with over 4,500 staff, delivering healthcare not only on the acute hospital site but also from a variety of community-based health centres and through visits to patients' homes across the boroughs to address the health needs of the local population.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RSCN or RN (Child Branch)
- Evidence of Post-Registration training and development
Experience
Essential
- Recent experience working with children and families with complex needs
- Experience working with learning disabilities and Autism
Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Writing in an effective way with people from a variety of backgrounds and different ages
