Job overview
We are seeking to recruit a Special School Nurse (Band 5 or 6) to provide specialised health care support for children and young people with medical needs at Harrow special schools.
We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals who can work autonomously as well as collaboratively as part of the Harrow Community Children's Nursing Team. Are you ready for a new challenge? Do you have the passion to join our well-established team and support ongoing transformation?
The Special School Nursing Team operates in the schools from Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
This position comes with a Term Time Contract.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providing excellent, high-quality service to children in Harrow who have additional and special educational needs. Your role will involve working closely with children, their parents or caregivers, and other key partners to improve health outcomes and help children with special needs reach their full potential in all environments: at home, in the community, and at school.
Good communication and positive working relationships with school staff and the leadership team are essential parts of this role.
We encourage applications from children's or learning disability nurses who have experience or a strong interest in working with children with additional needs.
Working for our organisation
We offer job satisfaction along with training, support, and clinical supervision. If you want to join a team that values your contributions and provides the opportunity to make a real difference in people's lives, we would love to hear from you.
Candidates are welcome to arrange informal visits to the special schools in by contacting Ola Adesemoye.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Special School Nurses work closely with the people who use our services and their families. Families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Special School Nurses are expected to be kind and responsive, but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:
1. keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
2. ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures
3. ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process
We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Special School nurses work as part of a team and you will contribute to the success of the team by being an effective role model to healthcare assistants/ support workers/school staff and students to ensure they are working to the standards which the people using our services deserve.
Vaccination
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.
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