Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - various
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-00091076A
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lavender Steers Mead Children’s Centre
- Town
- South West London
- Salary
- £21.88 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 16:00
Employer heading
Bank Children’s School Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
· To plan, organize and evaluate an innovative School Nursing service, and where appropriate, delegate to other members of the School Health team to ensure delivery of a quality service to a cluster of high complexity schools
· To participate in service development and health improvement activities.
· To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers, including head teachers, to identify and address health needs for school age children and young people and to ensure seamless delivery of services
· To collaborate with team colleagues in order to deliver the Quality Strategy objectives
· To be visible in schools on a regular basis, as agreed within the partnership agreement
· To deliver the role specific elements of the Universal Healthy Child Programme 5-19 (DH 2009)
Main duties of the job
1. To provide a skilled, effective and evidence based service to children and young people within schools and community settings.
2. To act as a named school nurse for a cluster of nominated schools, applying specialist skills and knowledge in the delivery of the school health service
3. To develop an overview of the profiled health needs of the defined population alerting the Team Lead where any service gaps are identified.
4. To identify, prioritise and implement programmes of care that meet the public health needs of the defined school age population.
5. To provide health assessments, advice and education to children/young people, their parents/carers and Education staff
6. To prioritise services appropriate to the local public health and population needs
7. To have a knowledge and understanding of the CLCH safeguarding policies and procedures, the different categories of child abuse and how they may manifest themselves and how policies are applied in practice.
8. To have an overview of the children known to be at risk and / or in need within the caseload. To liaise with the safeguarding team and other agencies as necessary to share information as appropriate according to the CLCH policies.
Working for our organisation
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
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stay well
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manage their own health with the right support
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avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To contribute to the undertaking and reporting of performance measures, alerting Team Lead of any shortfalls
2. Ensure the timely and correct entry of clinical and statistical data onto electronic patient records and systems as required by the Trust
3. To support the Team Lead with the delivery of the CBU Quality Strategy action plan
4. To actively seek out the voice of the child/young person
5. To report all near misses/incidents on the Trust wide Datix system in regard to any accident or incident to patient, staff or visitor within the scope of the post holder’s responsibility and in line with Trust policy.
6. To attend a quality meeting e.g. Patient Safety & Risk Group/Clinical Effectiveness Group, once a year.
7. To actively participate in clinical supervision on a regular basis in line with organisational guidelines.
8. To provide clinical supervision to others in line with Trust policy.
9. Actively participate in the learning from incidents/complaints e.g. 7 minute briefings
10. To participate in clinical audit to ensure the development of effective practice and maintenance of clinical standards.
11. To participate in research to ensure the development of effective and innovative practice and maintenance of clinical standards
Person specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential criteria
- RN
- RN (Child)
- Previous experience of working with children and young people with additional/ complex needs
- Experience of negotiating and liaising with a multi-agency or school senior leadership team
- Experience of leading/ setting up or implementing training for a variety of staff groups eg; school/ health/ respite/ parents
- Knowledge of national policies for children and families
- Safeguarding children’s policies and procedures
- Experience of working with therapists/ nurses as part of an MDT team within special schools
- Knowledge of Trust policies and procedures
- Evidence of recent professional development related to SEN
- Excellent time management skills
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills.
- High standard of clinical expertise
Desirable criteria
- RN BSc/MSc in Public Health Practice, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nursing) on Part 3 of the NMC Register
- Mentorship and Support in Professional Practice.
- Experience in School Health/ MDT school setting
- Experience in transitioning e.g. early years to primary and children and young people to adult services.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- shannon scott
- Job title
- Bank Recruitment Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02039378322
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