Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Full time
- Term time hours
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-LIT1367-A
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Oakleigh School/Mapledown School
- Town
- Barnet
- Salary
- £21.88 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 09/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Special School Nurse
Band 6
Welcome to Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH)
At CLCH, we proudly serve as a beacon of compassionate community healthcare across 14 vibrant London boroughs — Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, and Kingston — as well as Hertfordshire. We bring care closer to home, embracing the rich diversity of these communities with dedication and heart.
Recognised as a Good provider by the Care Quality Commission and celebrated among the top NHS employers, we are united by a shared passion: empowering our community health professionals to deliver care that truly makes a difference.
We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where every member of our team feels respected, valued, and inspired—a place where fairness, kindness, and inclusion blossom. Our culture is rooted in the principles of the NHS People Plan, Our NHS People Promise, and our own strategic Equality values and objectives, guiding us to create a truly supportive and inclusive workplace.
Together, we build a caring community where the warmth we show one another shines through in every life we touch.
Job overview
JOB PURPOSE
To work as part of the Special School Nursing Team taking overall responsibility for the assessment, provision, management and evaluation of evidenced based nursing care to children in the Special Schools.
To work as part of the Special School Nursing team, to provide day to day management of the care worker staff, equipment and clinical resources in the schools, in line with professional standards and quality of care.
To take responsibility for training relevant support staff and care worker staff, in line with agreed competency based training packages.
To provide clinical input to the school management boards for school-wide issues.
Main duties of the job
To assess the health needs of children and school community, agree individual and school health plans and deliver these through multidisciplinary partnerships.
To organise the day to day Special School Nursing Service to children with complex health needs at the Special Needs Schools.
To provide skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with complex care needs including technology dependent children.
To participate in direct clinical input to ensure appropriate nursing and screening interventions. To promote the optimum use of available resources and to secure the highest standards of care to both primary and secondary age children.
To provide information and support to facilitate the child’s and family’s own choices with regards to nursing care
To administer medication as prescribed and ensure safe storage of medicines in accordance to CLCH policy in Special Schools where nurses are based.
To deliver and manage training needs of school and health staff in the delivery of health care to children in the school, through the agreed competency based training packages, including assessment and sign off of competency of staff members.
To manage the provision of continence products to children and young people in the school, working alongside the Care Workers.
To ensure safe handling of body fluids and contaminated sharps in personal practice and within the team
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- RSCN or RN(Child) or LD
- Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration
- Evidence of post registration education and training
Desirable criteria
- School Nursing or Community Nursing /Specialist Practitioner Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Acute paediatric experience, caring for children with complex health needs
- Experience of delivering teaching/training
- Experience of working with students
- Experience of working in a multi-professional team to safeguard children
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a Special Needs School
- Experience of Health Promotion/Public Health
- Experience of safeguarding children with special needs
- Experience of immunisation
- Experience of managing staff
- Experience of working as a School Nurse or a Children’s Community Nurse
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- High standard of clinical expertise
- Leadership skills and the ability to motivate staff
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Good communication skills
- Knowledge of the purpose and value of Clinical Supervision and support of staff
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance and its implementations
- Knowledge of Personal Development Planning
- Knowledge of political issues within the profession and NHS
- Knowledge and understanding of Evidenced Based Care
Desirable criteria
- Ability to communicate through Makaton or BSL
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
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
- Beverley Evans
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07984466894
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