Senior Nurse | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Burnley, BB11 2DL |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6206212/351-PEN832-LW |
Summary
You will be a highly motivated and enthusiastic RN child, RSCN trained nurse with relevant paediatric and special needs school nursing experience, wishing to expand your knowledge and skills of working with children within the special needs school setting. You will impart specialist knowledge and advice across a range of health and social care issues, utilising evidence based research.
As a Band 6, senior nurse for Special Needs School Nursing you will manage your own defined safeguarding caseload in conjunction with the Band 5 nurses, acting as a key worker for vulnerable children instigating safeguarding procedures as required.
You will work primarily within the Pennine special school nursing team, working closely with the named school nurses but as part of the role there may be the requirement at times to work across the LSCFT special school footprint. You will have line management responsibilities for the Band 5 staff nurses working within the designated schools in the named locality with support from the team leader.
It is essential that you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to work in partnership with the child’s parents’, teachers and other health care professionals, offering support and advice to education staff on health related issues that affect the children within the school setting.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Friday 19 Apr 2024