Job summary
- Main area
- Special needs school nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 448-BCHS-7519587
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Woburn court
- Town
- Kempston, Bedford
- Salary
- £38,682-£46,580
- Closing
- 30/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/11/2025
Employer heading
Special Needs School Nurse
Band 6
Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.
Please note, the selection processes at Cambridgeshire Community Services are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills. Please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored, we remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.
Job overview
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
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- 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.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuous registration on NMC register
- RSCN, RN Child Branch, Learning Disability Nurse or RGN with transferable skills
- Experience of supervising/line management.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of relevant post registration experience
- Demonstrates ability to work independently
- Evidence of ability to plan care to meet the needs of the CYP.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and experience of supporting CYP with special needs
- Experience of working within a community setting
- Clinical nursing skills relevant to the role
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of excellent communication skills and ability to adapt communication as needed for person and/or situation
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to undertake clinical assessment of holistic needs.
- Supervisory skills
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates knowledge of normal child development
Safeguarding
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates an understanding of safeguarding issues
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of child protection process
Awareness of self and others
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates awareness of own strengths and areas for development
- Identifies mechanisms for managing stressful situations
- Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Dellar
- Job title
- Special Needs School Nursing Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01234 846155
- Additional information
For further information or an informal discussion about this role, please contact Jo Dellar on 01234 846155
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