Employer Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site City Wide Town Birmingham Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/07/2025 23:59
Band 5 Special School Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
Would you like an opportunity to join a community based nursing team?
This post will be working across the city-wide special school nursing service implementing and delivering specialist nursing care in a special school environment. The successful candidate will be required to carry out assessments; provide both planned and responsive clinical care and ensure that local safeguarding policies are adhered to.
They will be identified as a role model for the Band 5 Special School Nurses and Enteral Feeding Assistants and will also support education staff and offer advice and support to parents and pupils.
We would welcome applications from enthusiastic committed children’s nurses with proven clinical experience who have excellent communication skills and are able to manage their time effectively.
An understanding of the needs of children and young people with disability and/or additional health problems is essential.
Main duties of the job
FIXED TERM TIME ONLY - 12 MONTHS
The post holder will work as part of a team to participate in the delivery of health care and promote the health and welfare of children attending Special Schools and to acknowledge and respect the individual rights and personal dignity of the students.
The post holder will work autonomously within their sphere of professional practice, working within teams and service guidelines and objectives.
To be involved in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individual care needs in line with the core offer of service.
To take charge of a designated area in the absence of the band 6 Special School Nurse.
To support the teaching of competencies to nursing and education staff.
To ensure high quality core offer from the Special School Nursing Service consists of:
* assessment and review
* hands on clinical care
* key worker and signposting including transition
* training and supervision, and
* a general role in optimising long term health and lifestyles
WE DO NOT SUPPORT VISA SPONSER
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare rolesdelivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
For further details please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties
* Designated by the band 6 Special School Nurse to act as the named nurse for one or more Schools within a quadrant grouping providing health surveillance specialist advice and clinical programmes of care.
* To assess care needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
* To carry out prescribed nursing interventions as per the care plan under the direction of the Special School Nurse. Each care plan will identify:-
* Existing clinical needs and how and by whom these will be met.
* Monitoring the child’s growth and development in line with the Healthy Child Programme.
* Progress against the plan, expected outcomes and timescales.
* Safeguarding needs.
* The care plan will be made available to sit alongside and complement the child’s individual Education Plan (IEP).
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
* Educated to the following level: • Relevant professional qualification – RSCN or RN Child Branch or RNLD
* Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience
* Experience of recent community/acute healthcare gained through education or work experience placement or previous employment.
Skills & Knowledge
* Awareness of professional issues and recent developments in the NHS
* Knowledge of up to date clinical practice
* Sound communication and interpersonal skills (verbal and written)
* Ability to cope with change
* Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, taking into account Trust policies and procedures
* Ability to organise own work
* Ability to use own initiative
* Able to support the implementation of local and national agenda’s for health under the guidance of the team lead / ward manager.
Other Job Requirements
* Ability to motivate and organise others to ensure best practice.
* Ability to travel to work and other locations as required.
* Ability to work under pressure
* Flexible and adaptable
In accordance with UK Home Office requirements, Band 2 clinical and non-clinical roles and Band 3 Non-Clinical roles are not eligible for sponsorship.
Please note that the majority of non-clinical roles (Agenda for Change Band 3 - 5) with the exception of those which appear on this list - link, will not meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK.
All non-clinical roles (Agenda for Change Bands 6 - 9) that meet the prescribed salary threshold will be eligible for sponsorship.
The Trust will accept applications from candidates who can evidence their right to work in the UK or via alternative visa routes.
Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme
BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible.
We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.
Promoting Workforce Equality
In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
Flexible Working
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.
In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust acknowledges Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini etc; are powerful tools that can help you in various stages of your job application and how they can be used in certain circumstances during your application process with BCHC. You can read more about acceptable use on our internet pages here
Benefits of working for us:
* Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
* Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
* Discounts for local and national retailers
* Dedicated well-being services for all employees
* Flexible working where possible
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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