Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist School Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 2 years (25 hours per week, to be worked over 3 or 4 days. fixed term for two years.)
- Hours
- Part time
- Other
- Job ref
- 364-A-8965
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Specialist Schools Across South East Essex
- Town
- Southend-On-Sea
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist School Nurse
Band 6
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
Essex Partnership University NHS Trust (EPUT) are seeking to recruit a Specialist School Nurse. This is a two year fixed term position. You will join an existing team of highly motivated and experienced Specialist School Nurses, an Epilepsy Nurse Specialist, Specialist School Nurse Assistants and 2 Associate Practitioners who provide a respite service to our most complex children.
We are looking for a highly skilled paediatric nurse, with an understanding of children with complex health needs. You will need to be flexible and dynamic to meet the increasing demands to support children with disabilities and complex long term health needs to access education and achieve their best outcomes.
If you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to work as a team player, the initiative to work autonomously, we would like to hear from you. You should have good organisational skills and evidence of continued professional development.
The candidate must either be a Children’s Nurse or Learning Disability Nurse with recent experience of working with children. Previous experience of special school nursing would be desirable.
This is a two year fixed term position. 25 hours per week. Working pattern can be discussed at interview.
Main duties of the job
You will require exceptional, communication, organisational skills, collaboratively working with children, families, carers, school staff and the wider multi-disciplinary team within the education setting to ensure a supportive and caring learning environment.
The nurse will be responsible for providing clinical skills and ensuring a holistic, family centered approach to assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the health needs of the children within specialist education. This opportunity will provide excellent experience of working with children within the special school setting.
To communicate effectively to facilitate high level of cooperation and coordination within the multidisciplinary team to ensure delivery of coordinated services.
The Specialist School Nurse will work in partnership with Social Care and other statutory agencies in assessing and providing quality care to children within a selective caseload.
The Specialist School Nurse will work in collaboration with Children’s Centres, Extended Schools; voluntary and other statutory agencies to achieve good health gain outcomes for school aged children with additional needs and their families.
The role will include teaching/training, representing at meetings and maintaining the health needs of the children, this may involve a range of complex care, such as enteral feeding, and tracheostomy care.
Working for our organisation
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EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
• Season Ticket Loans • NHS discounts for staff • Excellent Training facilities and opportunities • Buying and Selling annual leave scheme • The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas • Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work • Day One Flexible Employer Join our Staff bank What is Staff Bank? Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank. |
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To assume responsibility and accountability for a caseload of children/young people with diverse presentations/conditions. Prioritising and managing the caseload, taking into account clinical risk and liaising with relevant agencies as appropriate.
- To assist in meeting the health needs of children with additional needs both in special and occasionally mainstream settings, liaising with the paediatric community team, paediatricians and the wider multi-disciplinary team to support their healthcare needs.
- To act as the key worker for some children or service coordinator for children with additional or complex health needs.
- To work within the specialist school nursing service to develop and deliver a training programme for staff and carers within special needs schools in order to support education staff and carers so to deliver the appropriate care for children with additional or complex health needs.
- To assist in developing an individual health care plan for each child within the caseload, and ensuring carers within the school environment are trained and assessed in the implementation of health care delivery such as gastrostomy feeding, administration of medication
- To act as an advocate for child/young person when involved with decision-making relevant to a child/young person’s health management.
- Lead on assessment and care plan development for the new intake of school children.
Person specification
Education / Qulification
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse qualification child branch
- Previous work experience of working with children and young people with a learning disabilities and/or complex health need
- Evidence of continued professional development
- ENB 998 or equivalent mentorship qualification
Desirable criteria
- 1st level degree or willingness to work towards
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- In depth knowledge and understanding of the individual needs of children and young people with learning disability and complex health needs
- Evidence of continuing professional development and the ability to promote this within the scope of the role
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of dealing with patients that have a learning disability who also have challenging or physically aggressive behaviours
Skills/Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to work with the minimum of supervision, make decisions, set priorities, meet deadlines and maintain self-motivation
- Knowledge and awareness of safeguarding children and child protection procedures, specifically for children and young people with learning disabilities and/or complex health needs
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering training to a large audience and on an individual child specific basis
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Flexibility in working hours and environment
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Current driving licence
- Ability to travel across sites and across Trust boundaries to attend meetings within requirements of the post
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
- Alison Davis
- Job title
- Lead Nurse for Specialist School Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07779 289240
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