Special Schools Nurse | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 11 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 pa |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 11 May 2024 |
| Location: | Whitefield, Manchester, M45 8PJ |
| Company: | Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6084631/236-BCO-NM218-24 |
Summary
The Special School Nurse Practitioner will act as a role model in the delivery of health care and promotion to children in an education setting and will provide support to the Team Lead in the effective management of the Service.
The Special School Nurse Practitioner will manage a large case load of children and will promote the holistic health care of the school age child by assessing, implementing and evaluating planned programmes of care thus ensuring that the health needs of any child are met to ensure access to education
The Special School Nurse Practitioner will undertake duties predominantly across 2 school sites and will involve working closely at times with another Special School Nurse and Health Care Support Workers. This role will however at many times require autonomous working on the sites so the post holder will need to be confident in their knowledge and clinical skills of children with a wide range of complex health needs, safeguarding of children and the SEND agenda.
The Special School Nurse Practitioner will also deliver health promotion packages in collaboration with the school health team ensuring that pupils within this caseload have equal access to health promoting messages and access to health information to enable informed choices. You’ll be passionate about what you do and keen to progress in our busy, pro-active environment .
Please Note: Post is a Term Time only contract which equates to 30hrs working week
Be accountable for the management your own caseload and be a lead professional providing specialist knowledge, advice and support for children and young people with complex and additional health needs.
Formulate, implement, assess and review individual care plans
Develop planned programmes of care to promote health gains and maximise independence.
Work collaboratively with the Education Team, partners and the wider MDT Team to ensure health needs are met thus enabling the pupil access to education.
Be responsible for the safe administration and documentation of medicines
Support children, young people, parents and carers to make informed choices about health-related issues and deliver health education/promotion .
To act as a child’s/families advocate in delivering the highest standard of care, ensuring all health care needs are met.
To implement and evaluate evidence-based training programmes for school staff, carers, other professionals, and the multi-disciplinary team and assessing against core competencies and maintaining clear training records as evidence
To work collaboratively with all stakeholders in the transition of children and young people through the education system through to adult services.
To provide health information for the completion of EHCP's annually and undertake RHA assessments.
Proactively safeguard the welfare of children and actively adhere to safeguarding procedures and policies
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website:https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/working-with-us/our-values/
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/
We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Apr 2024
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