Overview
Essex Partnership University NHS Trust (EPUT) are seeking to recruit a Clinical Lead for the Specialist School Nursing and Children’s Epilepsy Services. You will join an existing team of highly motivated and experienced Specialist School Nurses, two Epilepsy Nurse Specialists, Specialist School Nurse Assistants and 2 Associate Practitioners who provide a respite service to our most complex children. The Clinical Lead is required to travel across South East Essex. We are looking for a highly skilled paediatric nurse to support the team. You will need to be flexible and dynamic to meet the increasing demands on the services to support children and young people with disabilities and complex long term health needs to access education and achieve their best outcomes. You will require exceptional communication, organisational and team leadership qualities to work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring the team are providing safe, effective and high-quality services to children and families, using evidence based practice to ensure all care is child centred and family focused. You will be a champion for SEND, driving the SEND agenda operationally across the MSE community footprint to ensure outcomes are improved for children and young people with SEND. You must have exceptional communication and negotiating skills, experience of working across multi-disciplinary team/stakeholders and an in depth understanding of supporting a team with complex safeguarding concerns.
Main duties
* Clinical lead and responsibility for delivering specialist clinical paediatric nursing care, promoting development, knowledge and expertise in the care and management of children and young people with complex health needs within special educational needs settings
* Clinical lead for paediatric epilepsy nursing service, supporting the epilepsy nurse in delivery and training in various settings across South East Essex
* Clinical lead for children's respite service.
* Provide leadership and be a source of clinical expertise on SEND for partner organisations, specifically educational settings with ‘supporting children with medical conditions’
* Be a champion for children and young people with SEND within the organisation and with partner organisations
* Direct line management (including budgetary) and responsibility for co-ordination and day to day operational management of the specialist school nursing team, epilepsy nurse and respite service
Working for our organisation
Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.
* Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
* Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
* If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
* We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.
Benefits
* 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
* Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
* Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
* £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
* Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Work that wraps around your needs
* Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
* Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.
Important note: please ensure that as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.
Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email epunft.recruitment.adverts@nhs.net and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.
The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
Important Notice: Recently the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) which amended on 22 July 2021 and come into force on 11 November 2021 that anyone directly employed to work in a Care Home or who are required as part of their role to be deployed to a CQC registered care home are required to have had both their COVID vaccinations, unless they are exempt. This is therefore a requirement of this role and will form part of our pre-employment checks.
Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
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