Main area Paediatrics- Special Needs School Nursing Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent: Term Time only Hours
* Part time
* Term time hours
* Annualised hours
26 hours per week (Term time only) Job ref 361-7282573
Employer East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site New QEII Hospital Town Welwyn Garden City Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum-pro rata - Plus 5% High Cost Area Supplement Salary period Yearly Closing 11/07/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 6
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Special Schools Nurse Team Leader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
This is an exciting opportunity for a compassionate, highly motivated, and forward-thinking nurse with experience in working with children with special education needs and disability.
We provide health care support for children and young people with medical needs across our four Special Schools within East & North Hertfordshire. We have part or full-time positions available. We are a flexible and supportive team and will consider a full time/non term time position and school working hours. The post will involve working across the four special schools within East & North Hertfordshire.
In addition, you will receive a High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,258 and a maximum payment of £2,121 per annum pro rata.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be working collaboratively with children, families, carers, school staff and the wider multi-disciplinary team within the education setting to ensure a supportive and caring learning environment.
You will be responsible for co-ordinating & leading the nursing team at an allocated school site and provide support to the wider special school nursing team.
You will be passionate about providing compassionate care in a school setting, have excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
You will be responsible for providing advice and support to families and education staff and providing training and competency assessments to education staff.
The role will include teaching/training and supporting the school team in meeting and maintaining the health needs of the children and young people attending school.
This role requires you to be flexible in a constantly changing environment and to respond to emergency needs as they arise.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
* RN Child / RSCN / LD with specific CYP experience
* Degree in Nursing or equivalent experience
Previous Experience
* Experience of staff leadership
* Evidence of professional development
* Experienced Clinical Nurse
* Experience of working with children and young people with special needs
* Experience of teaching others
* Ability to work well in stressful situations
* Experience of staff leadership in a community setting
Skills
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Board range of clinical skills
* Ability to organize the workload, able to delegate and prioritize.
* Effective written and verbal communication skills
* Teaching skills
* Ability to lead and manage a team
* Good knowledge of health and safety and risk management
Knowledge
* In depth knowledge of the care of CYP with complex needs
* Good understanding of CYP issues
* Good understanding of community health services
* Good understanding of current nursing workforce issues
* Knowledge of current NHS & professional nursing issues
* Understanding of child protection procedures
* Leadership knowledge
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.
When you apply...
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Secondments/Fixed term
Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.
If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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