Job summary
- Main area
- SEND School Health
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Term time only following Liverpool term dates)
- Hours
- Part time
- Term time hours
- Job ref
- 350-CC7168007-A
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Covering Special Schools under the SEND Team
- Town
- King's Business Park
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
SEND Assistant Practitioner / Nursing Associate
Band 4
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
The successful applicant will be a dynamic, highly motivated individual, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. As a SEND Assistant Practitioner / Nurse Associate, you will be working as part of pro-active skill mix team who are committed to delivering high quality services.
The successful candidate will work 3 days per week during term time only. The hours of work are 8.30am - 4.30pm, Monday - Friday.
The Children’s service provides support to children, young people and their families within a progressive universal model of service delivery dependent on assessed need. The service offers every child/family a programme of screening, developmental reviews and information and guidance to support parenting and healthy choices as defined by current School Health drivers.
The post holder will work as part of a team to promote and maintain the health and wellbeing of children and young people with mild, moderate and severe learning difficulties which could also include those with complex medical needs. This post will include providing clinical care within the school environment.
Main duties of the job
Responsibilities will include caring for children with urinary catheters, enteral feeds, and medication requirements along with an awareness of tracheostomy and stoma care within the school and community settings. Responding to emergency situations and contributing towards specialist individual care plans to meet the child/young person’s needs alongside staff training is an important aspect of the role.
Public Health
The post holder will contribute towards undertaking holistic assessments of children, young people and families in planning and delivering the Healthy Child Programme, including health screening and immunisations, plus a requirement to safeguard and support the health needs of any vulnerable children/young people within the caseload across the city.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The SEND Assistant Practitioner / Nurse Associate will work predominantly as part of the SEND School Health team to promote and improve health and well-being of school-aged children and young people to reduce health inequalities. The post holder will support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme. The post holder will work in collaboration with partner agencies both voluntary and statutory to achieve good health outcomes for children and their families.
- The post holder will work as part of the SEND School Health Team with delegated responsibility for the implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for children, young people and families
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Associate and on the NMC register or Assistant Practitioner
Desirable criteria
- Work based experience
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of Health Promotion Strategies
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills Ability to motivate, negotiate with and influence others
- Ability to motivate, negotiate with and influence others
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Understanding of skills required for team working
- Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individualised complex activities and programmes of care
- Ability to travel, for work purposes, within the Mersey Care area
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessing, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care
- Understanding local and national influences on health care delivery, including Public Health
- Experience of previous work in health care
- Clinical Governance and Risk Management
- Actively involved in professional development
- Experience in assessing for and ordering community equipment
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children who have tracheostomy’s, urinary catheters, stoma, PEG feeds and usage of associated equipment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Michelle Kinsella
- Job title
- SEND School Health Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07587453089
- Additional information
Please contact me via email and I will respond within two working days.
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