The special needs school nursing team is a supportive team of qualified nurses and nursery nurses. We are looking for an experienced nurse to work within a leadership role, providing support for children and young people (CYP), who attend special schools in Bedfordshire, to access education and respite services.
As a team, we have close working relationships with our schools, to ensure that education staff are competent to meet the needs of the CYP who are enrolled. We work collaboratively, as part of the wider multidisciplinary team, to ensure the health needs of the CYP on our caseload are met through a continuous cycle of assessment, planning, implementation and review.
We are a supportive team, who work together to ensure that the service we offer meets the needs of the families we work with. We regularly review the service we deliver and are always keen to support service improvement initiatives, based on feedback from service users and in response to local and government guidance.
Responsibilities
* To have oversite of and lead on the delivery of the service to a defined caseload of CYP.
* Alongside the team lead, to act as a link between health, education, and other members of the multidisciplinary team, to ensure that the health needs of the CYP on the caseload are being effectively managed, enabling access to education, within special needs school settings.
* To delegate tasks as appropriate to other members of the SNSN team and provide leadership support, to enable them to carry out their role effectively.
* Work collaboratively with the wider multidisciplinary team, in-line with relevant legislation and guidelines, to support those attending special schools to improve health outcomes, ensuring that identified risks are escalated and managed within agreed pathways, such as safeguarding.
* To be instrumental in adapting the service, to meet the changing needs of service users, working within agreed frameworks of care and organisational guidelines.
* To work collaboratively with schools to identify health improvement initiatives and support the delivery of these within special schools, reviewing the effectiveness of any intervention.
* Participate in the assessment of health need, implementation, and evaluation of specialist health care plans to meet the needs of the individual CYP to enable them to remain in education.
* Provide health education information to the CYP and family/carers/education staff, to promote a healthy lifestyle.
* Advise and support education staff to implement clinical care plans.
* Provide a package of training to enable education staff to support CYP with specific conditions to attend school.
* To perform clinical nursing procedures as required and to provide support to educational staff to enable them to respond appropriately to emergency situations.
* To facilitate onward referrals to other services as required.
* Undertake ongoing caseload reviews.
* To participate in health and medication reviews as an advocate for the CYP and family to ensure the health care plan considers and supports access to day-to-day activities.
* To facilitate transition of CYP to adult services, following an agreed pathway.
Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 23-10-2025.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Oct 2025.
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