Senior Special School Nurse

Job summary

Main duties, tasks & skills required

The Senior Special School Nurse SSSN will work as part of the special school nursing team in a multiagency and multidisciplinary environment.

You should have knowledge and experience of clinical skills including but not limited to epilepsy and seizure management enteral feeding medications management including CDs clinical assessments suction and oxygen administration

Your main duties will include managing the caseload and delegating tasks line management of SSN and HCSW planning and delivering training to school staff and peers referrals to other agencies safeguarding and multidisciplinary meeting attendance delegation responsible for escalation of concerns or issues liaison with school leaders and service line management.

Your clinical management oversight will include complex care planning medications management trouble shooting clinical equipment clinical observations and PEWS.

You will support the Special School Nurses and HCSW to deliver training to school staff ensure competency of your SSN team and ensure training and quality compliance within Trust requirements.

You will be responsible for maintaining your own training CPD and competency.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job description

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

Essential

• BSc Nursing or RN in Child or Learning Disability Nursing and currently registered with NMC.
• Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality.
• Teaching Qualification, e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
• Practice assessor/supervisor

Experience

Essential

• 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, guidelines contributing to 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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Heather Kelly 

heather.kelly13@nhs.net 

07786332298