Job Purpose
· To work as part of the Special School Nursing Team taking overall responsibility for the assessment, provision, management and evaluation of evidenced based nursing care to children in the Special Schools.
· To work as part of the Special School Nursing team, to provide day to day management of the care worker staff, equipment and clinical resources in the schools, in line with professional standards and quality of care.
· To take responsibility for training relevant support staff and care worker staff, in line with agreed competency based training packages.
· To provide clinical input to the school management boards for school-wide issues.
· To provide day to day management to the nursing team in the school, organising systems of work in accordance with job descriptions.
· To ensure good communication and liaison between the nursing team, teachers, parents, and other agencies to help foster effective interagency work and a multi-disciplinary approach for care.
· To ensure the effective and efficient use of resources
· To provide service reports, providing appropriate information, action plans and evaluation of outcomes, reflecting national and local strategic priorities for children and families with special needs in liaison with line manager.
· To be the first point of contact for staff, students, service users and other key stakeholders, providing a prompt response to operational issues relating to health delivery.
· Be conversant with the CLCH and School policies and procedures and work within the identified standards.
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
• stay well
• manage their own health with the right support
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
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· To assess the health needs of children and school community, agree individual and school health plans and deliver these through multidisciplinary partnerships.
· To organise the day to day Special School Nursing Service to children with complex health needs at the Special Needs Schools.
· To provide skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with complex care needs including technology dependent children.
· To participate in direct clinical input to ensure appropriate nursing and screening interventions. To promote the optimum use of available resources and to secure the highest standards of care to both primary and secondary age children.
· To provide information and support to facilitate the child’s and family’s own choices with regards to nursing care
· To administer medication as prescribed and ensure safe storage of medicines in accordance to CLCH policy in Special Schools where nurses are based.
This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Jan 2025