Job overview

                                Bank  Special School Nurse

JOB PURPOSE: Monday to Friday 8-4

To provide clinical leadership to the Special School Nursing Team in Brent, including line management.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership within the specialist field ensuring that this reflects national and local policies and targets.
•  Direct line management responsibility for a team of specialist clinicians and team, including students and new staff.
• To develop and maintain policies, protocols and evidenced based guidelines
• To maintain accurate records and statistical returns as required by CLCH, including entering data onto the electronic health record.
• To participate in relevant meetings with professionals, families and discharge planning meetings as required.
• To ensure effective communication with families including the provision of interpreters for parents and children who require support with the English language
• To participate in network / special interest groups 
• To ensure appropriate action is taken in reporting an accident or incident to a child, family member, staff member or visitor
•  To work with relevant services for children with Special Needs and additional health needs across Central London Community Healthcare, ensuring communication at all levels of the Trust
• 1To work with the wider MDT involved with children and young people with SEND including therapists, CCNs, Paediatricians and other non NHS services.

Working for our organisation

To ensure a comprehensive care plan is in place for each child and family and in turn support education staff to maintain Health Care Plans to facilitate the child’s care in community settings such as nursery and school.

To signpost/refer families to other professionals/agencies who are able to provide a service to their child, or the wider family 

To attend meetings with the family and professionals when necessary to support the care of the child. 

 To identify any gaps in service provision and ensure that appropriate escalation occurs via line management

To ensure that all support and care for the family is based on evidence based protocols and policies to enable care to be safely managed at home or school 

To provide, or facilitate the provision of, expert training if appropriate/as required in areas of need for the child or family in conjunction with other services like CCN or relevant specialist nurses. 

To support Universal services to manage individual children with additional health needs, thereby bridging the knowledge/skills gap