Special School Nurse

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The Special School Nursing Team is a county wide service consisting of nurses and healthcare assistants who are based within the Special Schools. We work within the primary and secondary schools in Northamptonshire to ensure children and young people with additional healthcare needs can access their full educational curriculum. We work closely with our colleagues in the community, acute, social and education settings. We delivery competency based training programme to the education teams based in the Special School, working in partnership with schools to meet the needs of the children and young people. You will be lone working in other settings and we want to recruit a forward thinking, dynamic nurse into this permanent position. You will be part of a developing and progressing service working with colleagues who present with enthusiasm for innovative and high standards of practice and be able to work autonomously.
As a registered nurse the you will be working alongside a senior special school nurse who is responsible for managing allocated school caseloads, you will complete holistic nursing assessments including continence assessments, develop care plans for individualized care, complete risk assessments, to support the Education Health and Care Plan of the young person. You will facilitate health promotion sessions in school settings and participate in the immunisation programmes for children and young people. As a registered nurse you will provide mentoring to others including student nurses and you will work in collaboration with other agencies participating Early Help Assessment, Child in Need, and in safeguarding of children and young people through local procedures in line with Northamptonshire Safeguarding Board
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

Please refer the Job description for details