Special School Nurse
1 month ago
We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 School Nurse to join the Islington Special Schools Nursing Team. This role is ideal for someone able to work sensitively with children and young people with autism, learning disabilities, and complex medical conditions and advocate for their needs.
Main Duties- To work towards helping children and young people with a variety of special needs to obtain optimum health and gain access to a wide education curriculum.
- To act as a resource and point of contact representing the Special School Nursing services to internal and external agencies.
- To maintain accurate school records through accessing the electronic health notes system, filing, and organisation in accordance with Whittington Health NHS Trust guidelines.
- To use a variety of verbal and non-verbal communication skills and tools to communicate with children and young people who are non-verbal, of a non-English speaking background, requiring an interpreter, with a hearing impairment, with altered emotional states, with a cognitive/learning/behavioural disability.
- To 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.
- To participate and contribute to agreed health surveillance programmes in special schools, including annual health reviews, assessing overall developmental progress, and health needs.
- To assist the wider special school nursing team in covering support in times of short staffing to children and young people with complex learning and physical needs.
- To maintain up-to-date accurate health records for all school children and young people and ensure recommendations regarding referrals.
- To produce written statements of nursing need and care plans as required.
- To work in partnership with other agencies to identify children and young people in need and children and young people on child protection plans, liaising with school staff and social workers.
- To monitor the vulnerable children and young people with child protection issues, attend child protection case conferences, reviews, and core group meetings.
- To be responsible for report writing and effective record keeping, facilitating best practice.
- To prepare and attend meetings for child protection supervision with safeguarding advisors.
- To liaise with the Disabled Children's Team concerning the care and support for pupils and their parents, carers, and families.
- To 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.
- To arrange appointments with pupils, parents/carers for school medicals, dietician, and professionals meetings.
- To complete relevant continence assessments and support pupils, parents, carers, families, and school staff with toilet training and continence.
- To be involved in training and competency assessing health care assistants in procedures relevant to their role, such as medication administration, administering enteral feeds, height and weight measurements, and updating these annually.
- To provide training and support to parents, carers, and school staff on a variety of topics around management of children and young people with special needs and be involved with assessing and recording school staff competencies.
- To undertake height and weight monitoring to identify and refer any concerns arising from growth screening.
- To co-ordinate the planning and implementation of immunisation sessions within the school setting in consultation with the immunisation team.
- To act in an advisory capacity to trained school first aiders in the event of a more serious injury to a child.
- To ensure all nursing equipment is clean, safe to use, and in good repair and that annual maintenance and calibration is carried out and recorded, and records are kept and available for inspection.
- To complete risk assessments of environment and safety under the guidance of senior team members following Whittington Health NHS Trust policies.
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