Special School Nurse

5 days ago

Ilford, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

The post holder will achieve this by working as an autonomous member of the Specialist School Nursing Team, supporting a defined caseload of children and young people aged 5-19 years with complex healthcare needs and disabilities within the community and school settings.

The post holder will carry out clinical procedures in partnership with other professionals and agencies in order to meet identified care needs.

The post holder will establish and maintain effective communication with children and young people aged 5-19 years, parents and carers, colleagues, special schools and the multidisciplinary teams in order to achieve a positive health status for the child and family.

The post holder will be a registered Children’s Nurse and be responsible for children and young people who are allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable

Main duties of the job

1. To provide clinical practice leadership to the team members by acting as educator, facilitator, role model, mentor and preceptor.

2. To assist and facilitate a flexible team approach in meeting the health needs of the local school age population working with members of the team to identify areas of service development which meet identified needs and government.

 To enable the team to develop and adapt in order to meet future health needs.

4. To encourage and facilitate the team to be reflective practitioners and to deliver effective research and evidence-based services.

5. To support the team to work towards achieving the service and clinical governance targets.

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Working for our organisation

Working as part of a team of special school nurses supporting each other and ensuring the health needs of the children are met.

The service covers all year through

regular supervision with team lead

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1.Work as part of the Special Schools and Complex Nursing Team, coordinating and delegating work as appropriate to the Community Nursery Nurses.

2.Identify and assess the health needs of school aged children and families in need (Health Care Plan’s). To work in partnership with Primary Care, Targeted Children’s Services, Education, Children’s Services, Voluntary Sector and any other appropriate agencies. To deliver integrated programmes of care, using the Common Assessment Framework where appropriate.

3.Work within Redbridge’s Safeguarding Children’s Board policies, prioritising attendance at Case Conferences, reviews and planning meetings.

4.Be responsible for the provision of case conference reports, Child in Need Reports and court reports as required, contributing to safeguarding of all children

5.Provide a continuum of support according to need, improving outcomes for children by reducing health inequalities, supporting the national strategy set out in the Children’s Plan (DCSF 2007)

6.Be the principal point of contact for a caseload of specialist schools within the area. To develop and deliver cooperative working arrangements with these schools that support healthy outcomes for children.

7.Promote and enhance health and wellbeing to children and their families through assessment, implementation of individualised health strategies and evaluation of care. (Choosing Health, Ch 1, Para 17, 2004)

8.Identify and assess children and young people aged 5-19 with complex health needs, offering an enhanced integrated service within the multi-agency arena, ‘enhancing equality and opportunity for them’, (Aiming High for Disabled Children, 2007)

9.The post holder will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will supervise pre-registration students and apprentice Nursing Associates. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively support and liaise with other health and social care professionals and agencies.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Registered Paediatric Nurse with current NMC registration 2 years minimum post registration experience Evidence of working with children/young people with complex needs

Desirable criteria

working within the community setting Qualification in teaching/learning

Knowledge

Essential criteria

awareness of NHS policies able to carry out tasks without direct supervision To understand, identify and act upon changing clinical needs of children

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of the impact of additional needs on children and young people and their family/carer. Awareness of Equality and valuing diversity principles

Skills

Essential criteria

Basic awareness of IT and IT skills Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Desirable criteria

Able to implement evidence and research into own practice

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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