Special School Nurse inPortsmouth inPortsmouth PUBLISHED
TUE 10 DEC 2024
Candidates must hold a registration as a Children's or Learning Disability Nurse, with relevant experience in caring for children and individuals with learning disabilities; prior experience in special school nursing is preferred. The role also emphasises the importance of quality and safety, aligning with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of conduct, which advocates for prioritizing people, effective practice, and promoting professionalism. Additionally, the Trust is committed to inclusive recruitment practices and is open to discussions about flexible working arrangements.
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 are 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.
Supervise junior members of staff, students on placements.
To develop and maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality and safety and striving to do better.
This is in line with the requirements set out in the NMC code which require all registered nurses to:
Prioritise people; Practice effectively; Preserve safety; Promote professionalism and trust.
About us
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.
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