Islington Additional Needs and Disability Team (IANDS) is a multidisciplinary service for children and young people 0-19. Our service supports babies, children and young people with additional needs and disabilities.
We are looking for a Special School Nurse (either an experienced Band 6/ or a Nurse keen to develop in this role as a Band 5 to 6) to be part of our special schools team.
This includes Richard Cloudesley school which is an outstanding school for children with physical disabilities and additional sensory needs. Health care management on this site includes enteral feeds, diabetes, epilepsy and medication management.
The role is busy and diverse with no two days the same. You will support children and young people with a variety of special needs to obtain optimum health and gain access to a wide education curriculum. Working closely with the Clinical Lead Special School Nurse, Band 5 School Nurse and Healthcare Assistants, you will deliver personalised support and care for students attending all the special schools in Islington as required. You will also have a key role in the training of teaching staff, parents and other professionals around the management of children and young people with special needs.
The ideal candidates will have experience in learning disabilities, and physical disabilities. You will be working as part of a friendly multidisciplinary teams in supportive environments. You will be given opportunities to develop skills and knowledge relevant to your role.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITY:

To be a member of the special school multi-agency team and share information with team members as directed and appropriate, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
To work towards helping children and young people with a variety of special needs to obtain optimum health and gain access to a wide education curriculum.
To act as a resource and point of contact representing the Special School Nursing services to internal and external agencies.
To maintain accurate school records through accessing the electronic health notes system (currently Rio), filing and organisation in accordance with Whittington Health NHS Trust guidelines.
To use a variety of verbal and non-verbal communication skills and tools to communicate with children and young people who are nonverbal, of a non-English speaking background, requiring an interpreter, with a hearing impairment, with altered emotional states, with a cognitive/learning/behavioural disability.