School Nurse Admin Assistant

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide clerical and administration support to the school health team, this includes excel reports, scanning documents, letters, answering and responding appropriately to telephone calls from the public and other professionals.

Order stationery as and when required

Respond appropriately to general enquiries from clients and refer when necessary to the School Nurse.

Support the team to collect data for audit and evaluations purposes.

Support the team with administration of the Online Health Questionnaires.

Recognise if children are in need of protection and report concerns to the School Nurse in line with Coventry Safeguarding Children Board policy and procedures

Maintain regular contact with education staff to establish good relationships between the services.

Knowledge skills and experience required:

Maintain accurate records at all times as per trust guidelines.

Ensure that confidentiality is upheld at all times, as per trust guidelines.

Attend the Trust statutory and mandatory training programme specific to the role ensuring that training completed follows the essential skills policy including regular appraisal.

Participate in/access group or team clinical supervision.

Participate in and contribute to team/locality meetings to keep up to date with trust information.

Measurable Result areas:

Meet time scales that are set for each intervention.

Participate in Trust improvement programmes as required to improve service delivery, e.g. Productive Community Services.

Communications and Working Relationships:

Able to work as part of the team

Undertake delegated tasks, feedback to school nurse to initiate actions

Support the induction of new staff in the school nursing team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Good educational achievement Level 4 and above GCSE or functional skills equivalent.
• Must have a willingness and commitment to undertake training
• Must have good computer skills knowledge e.g. Microsoft word excel and data bases.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in teams
• Be able to prioritise work load independently in Logical and organised way.
• Clerical/ administration experience
• Must be able to problem solve

Desirable

• Paid experience of working with children or young people.

Skills

Essential

• Must be able to demonstrate sound personal management skills - time management, prioritising and planning appointments with schools.
• Must demonstrate a good standard of communication skills, including with other departments/agencies
• Must have an understanding of Child Protection principles
• Must have an understanding of the need for confidentiality
• Must be committed to principles of Equal Opportunity
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Coventry school nurses have 2 bases

312 Charter Avenue

Coventry

CV48DA

Employer's website

https://www.swft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)