A Vacancy at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust.
Special School Nurse - Band 6 (Term Time Only)
Permanent role
We are an integrated Children and Young People (CYP) Community Nursing Service providing specialist nursing care to CYP with complex physical health needs. This includes Community Children’s Nursing, special school nursing and respite provision. Significant investment in our Special School Nursing team means we are looking for several new posts to support the growing number of CYP with complex health needs in Coventry’s special schools. This post is for an experienced children’s nurse/ learning disability nurse with extensive children’s experience. The post will act as a senior nurse the five special schools the service supports facilitating the team of nurses and carers to meet the complex physical health needs of pupils in school.
Extensive experience of working with children or young people with complex physical health needs is essential ideally in a variety of settings but especially special schools. The post requires you to hold a children’s qualification either RN Child or RGN with an RSCN qualification. Candidates who are registered LD or adult nurses and can demonstrate extensive experience working with children with complex health needs will be considered.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
The post is to lead a group of nurses and carers to ensure the complex health needs of the pupils are supported whilst attending school. This will include being a point of contact for education staff as well as the multi-professional team. This will include the assessment of health needs, care planning, delegation of nursing care to non- registered professionals following competency based training.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
We can offer the successful candidate the opportunity to be part of a warm and friendly team. They will be supported in the role by clinical leads, a clinical education team and clinical nurse specialists as well as the operational management and medical teams. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who is already working in special schools or other community settings which are allied to special school nursing who would like gain experience in leading and developing services.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
The post holder will be responsible for leading a team of nurses and carers in a special school to deliver a wide range of clinical care to pupils during the school day. Team working and especially experience in multi-agency working is essential as the post will also involve working with education and social care to provide holistic care to CYP on the caseload. The post holder will support the team leader in the overall management of the service across five special schools and act in their absence when required. A good working knowledge of EHCPs and the SEND agenda is also required along with experience in safeguarding. The successful candidate will have good communication skills, be a team player whilst being able to work autonomously when required. A sense of fun and creativity are also valuable traits. In return we can offer an opportunity to work with some amazing CYP and committed staff teams in an inspiring environment where the focus is supporting CYP to achieve to their full potential.
This advert closes on Wednesday 20 Nov 2024