Clinical Nurse Specialist -School Nursing Team
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The closing date is 02 December 2025
* An exciting opportunity for motivated and energetic nurse who enjoys working with children and young people with a variety of complex health and learning needs.
* The role evolves working in a special school setting, alongside our education colleagues to ensure children and young people are given fair equal access to education.
Main duties of the job
* We are looking for a band 6 nurse to join a team of mixed skill nurses to support children and young people in a school for CYP aged between 4-19 years old.
* You will have good clinical skills as well as be willing to learn new skills. You will able to plan your workload and pre-empt the needs of the children on your caseload.
* You will be giving tracheostomy care, feeds via jejunostomy, gastrostomy, safe administering of medication, airway maintenance using suctioning etc.
* You will delivering care for the CYP while they are in their lessons and ensuring their education is as uninterrupted as possible.
* Your must also have good safeguarding awareness and be happy working within a team.
About us
St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
Person Specification
Knowledge
* national child protection and safeguarding preceedures
* level 3 mandatory child protection training within the last 3 years
Experience
* minimum 3 years post registered experiance
* experience of working with children
* RCN
Skills
* excellent verbal and written communication
* various stomas access, care and management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£46,419 to £55,046 a yearper annum HCAS (pro-rata)
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