You will be a highly motivated and enthusiastic RN child, RSCN trained nurse with relevant paediatric and special needs school nursing experience, wishing to expand your knowledge and skills of working with children within the special needs school setting. You will impart specialist knowledge and advice across a range of health and social care issues, utilising evidence based research. As a Band 6, senior nurse for Special Needs School Nursing you will manage your own defined safeguarding caseload in conjunction with the Band 5 nurses, acting as a key worker for vulnerable children instigating safeguarding procedures as required.
You will work primarily within the Pennine special school nursing team, working closely with the named school nurses but as part of the role there may be the requirement at times to work across the LSCFT special school footprint. You will have line management responsibilities for the Band 5 staff nurses working within the designated schools in the named locality with support from the team leader.
It is essential that you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to work in partnership with the child’s parents’, teachers and other health care professionals, offering support and advice to education staff on health related issues that affect the children within the school setting.
Car driver with access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential.
To work as part of the children’s complex needs nursing team providing a service for children referred for assessment and intervention within the special needs school nursing team.
To be responsible for a caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs.
To undertake comprehensive assessment of children and young people with varied
presentations, using self-determined investigative and analytical skills, to formulate
hypotheses in order to determine appropriate interventions and goals.
To establish individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical
reasoning and utilising a range of evidence based treatment skills and options to
formulate interventions and programmes of care.
To participate in the co-ordination, development and delivery of training programmes
and information packages for colleagues in health, education, social care, and voluntary sector Organisations, and parents/carers.
Act as special needs school nursing lead for safeguarding issues within designated schools
To participate in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.
To engage with and support team leaders within professional development activities.
To provide specialist advice to Team Colleagues in area of own practice regarding specific service delivery issues.
To provide clinical and management supervision to junior colleagues.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
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This advert closes on Tuesday 31 Dec 2024