Job overview

We are looking for a School Nurse Administrator to join our School Nursing Service!

Through delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, our School Nursing Service work in partnership with children, families and professionals to promote health and wellbeing by supporting children, young people and their carers with their physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing, and by equipping young people with the resources they need to make healthy lifestyle choices throughout life.

The School Nursing Service supports all school aged (5-19) children and young people across Bristol, working in partnership with multi-disciplinary health teams within community and acute services, local authority and voluntary sector teams - to deliver a clinically effective, high quality health service to the school aged population, in a variety of settings.

Core Service hours are currently between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. 

This vacancy is for Monday to Wednesday.

Main duties of the job

To provide comprehensive administrative support to the School Nursing team. To act as an effective link across CCHP staff, Schools, Children's Social Care, GPs, the general public and other relevant bodies.

The post requires organisation, attention to detail and initiative to ensure that the best possible care is delivered to children, young people, their families and that targeted tasks are completed on time.

The post holder will be based in the South Bristol School Health team at Osprey Court and will work closely with administrators in other areas such as Health Visiting, Children's Continence and the Children Looked After and Care Leavers Teams.

The Post Holder will be responsible for:

Liaising with families, other health professionals and other agencies to make appointments on behalf of and at the request of the school nursing team.

Acting as the central information and contact point for parents/ carers, medical and nursing staff and other agencies, disseminating information as appropriate to the school nursing team.

Data entry of information into pre-populated templates and work based systems.

Undertaking any necessary photocopying, filing, and other administrative duties to ensure the effective running of the office.

Arranging, organising and co-ordinating the booking of premises for meetings.

Working flexibly to support other school nursing team administrators across the area.

Working for our organisation

We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, it’s about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care we would expect for ourselves and our families.

At Sirona, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of colleagues, people and communities. We welcome applications from all who feel they have the skills and attributes to make a real difference.

Benefits:

We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and the NHS pension scheme plus much more! 

Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for details.

We offer NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) salary including annual leave supplement, Stakeholder pension, a range of health and wellbeing incentives, high street discounts, plus much more!