Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Special School Nursing is a developing field of nursing where you will use and develop a multitude of clinical and holistic nursing skills. We are looking for an experienced, motivated, and dynamic nurse to join our friendly and experienced Special School Nursing Team. We provide Specialist School Nursing to nine Special Schools across Hampshire and the IOW.
The Special School Nursing team works collaboratively with children, families, school staff, and the wider multi-disciplinary team within the education setting to ensure a supportive and caring learning environment. The nursing team is responsible for ensuring the health needs of the children are met using a family-centered approach to assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the health needs of the children within a specialist education provision. The role will include teaching and training of school staff, creating care plans, and supervision of delegated skills including children and young people with a range of complex care, epilepsy and seizure management, enteral feeding, tracheostomy care, caseload management, and line management of a small specialist team.
The candidate must hold either a registration as a Children's or Learning Disability Nurse with recent experience of working with children and people with learning disabilities. Previous experience of special school nursing would be desirable.
Main duties of the job
1. Supervise junior members of staff and students on placements.
2. Develop and maintain a culture of service improvement that promotes quality and safety.
3. Ensure compliance with the NMC code which requires all registered nurses to:
* Prioritise people;
* Practice effectively;
* Preserve safety;
* Promote professionalism and trust.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust's community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone. If as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief, or disability, please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* BSc Nursing or RN in Child or Learning Disability Nursing and currently registered with NMC.
* Post registration, specialist training relevant to specialty.
* Teaching Qualification, e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent.
* Practice assessor/supervisor.
Experience
* Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans.
* Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients.
* Experience of MDT working.
* Experience of teaching, training, and supervision/assessing junior staff and students.
* Evidence of recent CPD.
* Evidence of developing policy and guidelines contributing to the management of resources.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Clinical Team Coordinator Special School Nursing
£37,338 to £44,962 a year based on full-time hours.
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