Special Needs School Nurse | Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	10 Hydref 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£38,682-£46,580
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	09 Tachwedd 2025
Lleoliad:	Kempston, Bedford, MK42 7PN
Cwmni:	Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Tr
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7519587/448-BCHS-7519587

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The special needs school nursing team is a supportive team of qualified nurses and nursery nurses. We are looking for an experienced nurse to work within a leadership role, providing support for children and young people (CYP), who attend special schools in Bedfordshire, to access education and respite services.

As a team, we have close working relationships with our schools, to ensure that education staff are competent to meet the needs of the CYP who are enrolled. We work collaboratively, as part of the wider multidisciplinary team, to ensure the health needs of the CYP on our caseload are met through a continuous cycle of assessment, planning, implementation and review.

We are a supportive team, who work together to ensure that the service we offer meets the needs of the families we work with. We regularly review the service we deliver and are always keen to support service improvement initiatives, based on feedback from service users and in response to local and government guidance.

Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 23-10-2025

The successful candidate will be responsible for the day to day management of a defined caseload of CYP, co-ordinating the care support they need to access education.

They will be responsible for forming effective working relationships with the multidisciplinary team, families and CYP with complex health needs and learning disabilities, to enable the them to gain optimum health.

The candidate will be expected to safely delegate responsibilities to colleagues and act as a line manager to junior staff within the team.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
• To have oversite of and lead on the delivery of the service to a defined caseload of CYP.
• Alongside the team lead, to act as a link between health, education, and other members of the multidisciplinary team, to ensure that the health needs of the CYP on the caseload are being effectively managed, enabling access to education, within special needs school settings.
• To delegate tasks as appropriate to other members of the SNSN team and provide leadership support, to enable them to carry out their role effectively.
• Work collaboratively with the wider multidisciplinary team, in-line with relevant legislation and guidelines, to support those attending special schools to improve health outcomes, ensuring that identified risks are escalated and managed within agreed pathways, such as safeguarding.
• To be instrumental in adapting the service, to meet the changing needs of service users, working within agreed frameworks of care and organisational guidelines.
• To work collaboratively with schools to identify health improvement initiatives and support the delivery of these within special schools, reviewing the effectiveness of any intervention.
• Participate in the assessment of health need, implementation, and evaluation of specialist health care plans to meet the needs of the individual CYP to enable them to remain in education.
• Provide health education information to the CYP and family/carers/education staff, to promote a healthy lifestyle.
• Advise and support education staff to implement clinical care plans.
• Provide a package of training to enable education staff to support CYP with specific conditions to attend school.
• To perform clinical nursing procedures as required and to provide support to educational staff to enable them to respond appropriately to emergency situations.
• To facilitate onward referrals to other services as required.
• Undertake ongoing caseload reviews.
• To participate in health and medication reviews as an advocate for the CYP and family to ensure the health care plan considers and supports access to day-to-day activities.
• To facilitate transition of CYP to adult services, following an agreed pathway.


This advert closes on Thursday 30 Oct 2025

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