Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - various
- Job ref
- 824-BANK- LIT1446
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Village School
- Town
- Brent
- Salary
- £21.88 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 12/08/2025 12:00
Employer heading
Bank Special School Nurse B6 ONW
Band 6
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 14 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, Kingston - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.
Job overview
Job Purpose - Mon to Fri full time or term time
· To work as part of the Special School Nursing Team taking overall responsibility for the assessment, provision, management and evaluation of evidenced based nursing care to children in the Special Schools.
· To work as part of the Special School Nursing team, to provide day to day management of the care worker staff, equipment and clinical resources in the schools, in line with professional standards and quality of care.
· To take responsibility for training relevant support staff and care worker staff, in line with agreed competency based training packages.
· To provide clinical input to the school management boards for school-wide issues.
Main duties of the job
· To assess the health needs of children and school community, agree individual and school health plans and deliver these through multidisciplinary partnerships.
· To organise the day-to-day Special School Nursing Service to children with complex health needs at the Special Needs Schools.
· To provide skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with complex care needs including technology dependent children.
· To participate in direct clinical input to ensure appropriate nursing and screening interventions. To promote the optimum use of available resources and to secure the highest standards of care to both primary and secondary age children.
· To provide information and support to facilitate the child’s and family’s own choices with regards to nursing care
· To administer medication as prescribed and ensure safe storage of medicines in accordance to CLCH policy in Special Schools where nurses are based.
· To deliver and manage training needs of school and health staff in the delivery of health care to children in the school, through the agreed competency based training packages, including assessment and sign off competency of staff members.
· To manage the provision of continence products to children and young people in the school, working alongside the Care Workers.
· To ensure safe handling of body fluids and contaminated sharps in personal practice and within the team
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our service user’s wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the Trust and local induction to introduce you to the role 0-19 services.
- Bespoke housing is available for key workers within central London: https://www.sharetobuy.com/
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support, and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Persons Specification.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- RSCN or RN(Child) or LD or RGN
- Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration
- Evidence of post registration education and training
Desirable criteria
- School Nursing or Community Nursing /Specialist Practitioner Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Acute paediatric experience, caring for children with complex health need
- Experience of delivering teaching/training
- Experience of working with students
- Experience of working in a multi-professional team to safeguard children
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a Special Needs School
- Experience of Health Promotion/Public Health
- Experience of safeguarding children with special needs
- Experience of immunisation
- Experience of working as a School Nurse or a Children’s Community Nurse
- Experience of managing staff
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Leadership skills and the ability to motivate staff
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Knowledge of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Professional Conduct
- Knowledge of the purpose and value of Clinical Supervision and support of staff
- Knowledge and understanding of Evidenced Based Care
Desirable criteria
- Ability to communicate through Makaton or BSL
Other
Essential criteria
- Able to carry out the duties of the post with or without adaptations
Desirable criteria
- Car driver
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
- Shanelle Gree
- Job title
- Recruitment Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01923961201
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