Job summary
Job Title: School Nurse
Closing Date: 18th December 2024
Interview: TBC but early in 2025
Start Date: As soon as possible
Salary: NHS Band 7 FTE (£46,148 to £52,809)
Pension: Choice of NHS PensionScheme or Local Government Pension Scheme
Hours: Full Time(52 wks) hours per week
Responsible to: Chair of Compliance, Safety & Wellbeing Committee / Inter-agency Committee / CEO
Location: The Special PartnershipTrust Office, Pencalenick, School, Truro with travel to other schools within Cornwall.
Hybrid Working: Yes
Contract type: Permanent
We are looking for someone who will lead the development of a comprehensive pupil healthcare approach across the Trust, working with specialist professionals as part of an interagency team. The successful candidate will lead the delivery of a comprehensive health offer to pupils with complex health needs, working with partners, parent, carers, and manage a Trust team of Healthcare Leads.
Main duties of the job
This is a new and exciting role within the Special Partnership Trust, an extraordinaryMulti-Academy Trust who are redefining Special Educational Needs in the UK. Ourmission is clear; to be a force for good in SEN and make a positive differenceto people's lives. We challenge conventions, pioneer excellence, and worktirelessly to create better tomorrows for our young people and their families.
The Special Partnership Trust is a specialist provider that iscontinuing to grow and develop Special Educational Needs (SEN) provision acrossthe South Trust iscurrently developing innovative approaches to deliver a new, integratedspecialist healthcare provision across the Trust. This means there are newopportunities to work as part of our team.
The opportunity would suit a knowledgeable healthcare individual that is passionate about supporting young people. Someone, who is excited, curious and motivated to find solutions and make a difference.
If you believe you have the necessary skill set to work with partners to develop a new innovative service that forms a crucial aspect of the high-quality specialist provision that the Trust delivers, we would like to hear from you.
About us
For further information, please visit theSpecial Partnership
If you would like to discuss the role inconfidence please contact Guy Chappell, CEO, on 07807 495402 or Ruth Carpenter,Headteacher Nancealverne School on 01736 365039.
To apply, please complete an Application Formand Equal Opportunities Form which are available on our vacancy page and return to Steven Pope, Trust HR Manager:
We provide our staff with a diverse range of benefits including:
1. A choice of the NHS Pension for Healthcare staff through directional body status or the Local Government Pension Scheme.
2. 37 days paid holiday (incl. bank holidays) for Support Staff, from start of employment with the Trust.
3. Access to Extra Special, the Trusts employee reward portal. The portal provides access to all our employee benefits including hundreds of retailer discounts and cash back offers.
4. Simply Health Optimise Health Plan supporting employees and their families with health care costs and also including access to counselling services, health checks and other tools via a myWellbeing App.
5. Employees Assistance Programme, designed to help staff deal with personal and professional problems.
6. Occupational Health support from Medigold Health Protect and access to Thrive, a clinically led NHS approved mental wellbeing App.
7. Cycle 2 Work Scheme via salary sacrifice.
8. Discounted gym memberships with Better Leisure.
9. Learning & Development/CPD opportunities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full Job Description as an uploaded document.
Role Summary and Primary Purpose:
Required to lead the health provision on behalf of the Trust, overseeing and undertaking a number of diverse specialist and nursing procedures to support the complex health of pupils with significant health needs to maintain their ability to access school. This will be through using skills that would have been gained through formal qualifications and considerable relevant work experience.
Developing professional networks and additional capacity to support the delivery of a highly specialist SEN offer across the Trust.
Working with and alongside the Specialist Intervention Team, developing the specialist capacity and expertise across the Trust.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
10. Significant practical experience of working with special needs pupils giving rise to a variety of clinical skills such as gastrostomy feeding, tracheostomy care, suction, deep suctioning, diabetes, complex and epilepsy and seizure management and sound understanding of the services available, work practices and processes relevant to the role within school. Changing of gastrostomy buttons as well as knowledge of complex care needs of CYP with severe and profound LD.
Personal Qualities
Essential
11. Ability to make clinical decisions and recommendations about particular areas of work. Supporting staff with clinical judgements and therefore the need to inform. Referring to Senior Professionals; Hospice Care, Consultants, GPs etc.
Qualifications
Essential
12. Registered Nursing qualification. You will be an experienced nurse and hold a current NMC registration.