Overview
Band 6 Childrens Nurse – Exeter House School – High Post
We are delighted to invite applications for a Band 6 Children’s Nurse to join Exeter House School. This rewarding role offers the opportunity to combine clinical expertise with leadership, supporting children and young people with complex health needs in a specialist school setting.
This is a part-time role working 26.25 hours per week.
As a Band 6 Children’s Nurse working in Exeter House School, you will support the attendance and inclusion of children with complex medical needs at Exeter House School by:
- Providing nursing support, training, and advice to colleagues at Exeter House School to enable and empower them to feel confident with meeting complex health needs.
- Being a point of contact at school for health information and support/sign posting for families and carers to ensure children have improved health and education outcomes.
- Working in close partnership with a range of other statutory and voluntary agencies, ensuring that children access the right support at the right time
- Providing training and, where applicable, child specific competency sign- off, ensuring school can safely meet assessed health needs and are confidently able to follow child specific care plans
- Support with maintaining school training records in relation to health needs training/clinical skills training
- Writing and updating individual health care plans where applicable
- Supporting with health needs risk assessments to support inclusion and access to activities
- Ensuring medicines are appropriately managed within school and to support staff with staff administration of medication as per child specific care plans and consent from parents/carers to administer
The successful candidate will have:
Essential
- RSCN or equivalent
- Current registration with the NMC
- Able to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary interagency team.
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
- Ability to prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands and meeting deadlines.
- Commitment to client-centred practice.
- Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments.
- Ability to communicate effectively complex and sensitive written and verbal information.
- Ability to maintain accurate records within professional and organisational guidelines and process.
- Broad knowledge of normal child development
- Working knowledge of a wide range of nursing models of practice.
- Working knowledge of relevant legislation and national guidelines.
- Working knowledge and evidence of observational implementation of therapeutic assessments, interventions relevant to children and young people.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- IT skills (or willingness to learn)
- Evidence of the implementation of risk assessments.
- Significant experience of working within the community/primary care setting.
- Three years, proven relevant post registered experience.
- Proven experience of working with children with palliative or end of life nursing needs.
- Holds a current driving licence and a well-maintained car for work use, with business use insurance.
- Ability to prioritise and manage own emotional wellbeing, recognising when stress is impacting negatively on work and personal life.
Desirable:
- Community Specialist Practitioner Degree or Diploma (or documented experience of working in the community)
- Experience of working with children with complex and/or additional needs.
- Proven experience of working with children using ventilators and tracheostomies (or equivalent experience.
Other requirements
- Ability to travel to meet the needs of the job.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Children’s Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 AfC Salary Pro Rata with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.
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