Lead school nurse inMedway inMedway PUBLISHED THU 14 NOV 2024

• Are you an experienced School Nurse?
• Are you looking for a new challenge that allows you to have a mix of caseload and line management?

If you answered yes, we've got the perfect role for you!

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the school health service to recruit an experienced school nurse who is committed to leading service change and embedding best practice.

The role is to work alongside the existing lead school nurses to help build our service and develop new ways of working.

The responsibilities will include delivering public health messages; providing targeted support to those children and families with identified needs including inter agency working to ensure protection from harm; and in liaison with clinical lead, be responsible for the day-to-day management of the team.

You should also demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to be adaptable and flexible. You will demonstrate leadership skills and be able to show awareness of developments in school nursing, making changes to clinical practice as required.

About us

1. Communication and relationship skills

• Communicate complex information concisely to teams
• Communicate sensitive client/organisational/staff information to other healthcare professionals
• Provide and receive complex and sensitive information in a variety of formats overcoming barriers to understanding using discretion and tact
• To develop and deliver training sessions and relate theory to practice
• To ensure effective communication between students, university and managers.
• Provide support to the Clinical Lead, keeping them informed regularly on team developments and significant issues

1. Knowledge, training and experience

• Registered Nurse
• Educated to degree level or equivalent; masters level desirable
• Diploma/Degree SCPHN School Nursing
• Nurse prescribing qualification
• Mentorship
• Broad base of clinical experience with highly developed specialist knowledge acquired through experience and specialist training
• Experience of clinical audit/ quality improvement initiatives
• Knowledge of new interventions and developments
• Working knowledge of principles of clinical governance and their application
• To deliver training to staff on specialist subject.
• To act as a resource within School Health sharing best practice and acting as a clinical role model within the team by demonstrating high levels of clinical practice.
• To ensure statutory and mandatory training is kept up to date

1. Analytical and judgement skills

• Provide clinical expertise and knowledge
• Assessment of clients on specialist caseload
• Analyse audit findings and prepare detailed recommendations and action plans

1. Planning and organisational skills

• Plan, evaluate and participate in the audit and standards of care
• Plan and Prioritise own workload
• Planning and organisation of training programmes

1. Physical skills

• Keyboard skills
• Ability to travel to diverse sites in a timely manner to undertake home visits, attend meetings etc

1. Responsibility for client care

• Assess clients health and well-being needs
• Plan, deliver and evaluate specialised health care programmes to meet clients needs; provide clinical leadership and professional guidance to the staff within Childrens Services
• Provide advice through training, education and interventions
• Safeguard the client group by adhering to child/adult guidelines and procedures. Key participant in adult/child protection proceedings when appropriate
• To act as a public health resource and be responsible for developing, organising, implementing and evaluating specialist public health programmes
• To ensure evidence-based health education and promotion to clients
• To ensure close collaboration with other agencies to enable robust pathway planning and service delivery in line with the clients needs.

1. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation

• Participate in clinical audit and monitoring of the service
• To assist and support the continual review, development and improvement of childrens services
• To record and submit clinical activity and information as requested
• Participate in the development, implementation and review of service development plans and policies
• Comment on policy and protocol development
• To participate in clinical incident reporting and facilitate changes to reduce risk
• Lead projects as agreed with the Clinical Lead, in line with national strategies, and personal skills and interest.

1. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

• Responsible for use of equipment and facilities

1. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)

• Assist in educating, supporting and reviewing team members
• To assist with orientation programmes which familiarise new members of staff to the team
• Provides Specialist training programmes
• Support team members in assessing student and junior staff competencies
• Line management responsibility as agreed with the Clinical Lead.

1. Responsibilities for information resources

• Ensure all records are updated and safeguard clients confidentiality within legal and ethical principles (Caldicott) and Medway Community Healthcare data protection policies
• Record and submit accurate and timely data as required to inform service planning, community profiling and aid local development plans

1. Responsibilities for research and development (R&D)

• Actively participate in clinical audit and clinical governance activities leads clinical audits in specialist field
• Understanding the principles of research and the ability to pro-actively apply these to practice

1. Freedom to act

• Guided by established policies and guidelines
• Professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work
• Works independently as an autonomous practitioner
• Participate in new ideas and ways of working to support innovation, efficiencies and quality improvements as part of the leadership team.