Job summary
To provide healthcare support to children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
This is a excellent opportunity to make a difference with children and young people with SEND, attending specialist school provision in Northumberland.
Please be advised this post is term-time hours.
Main duties of the job
To assist the special school nurses to provide healthcare and nursing support to enable children and young people with SEND to attend school.
To provide health education and health support to children, young people and their families. This is done through 1:1 support, drop in sessions, small group work, whole classroom sessions, parent workshops and at home visits.
To assist with monitoring the health and wellbeing of the children and young people in school; providing assistance in school clinics and to visiting healthcare specialists.
Provide continence advice and support including completing initial toileting assessments and annual re-assessments.
Provide administration support to the special school nurses with the patient electronic system.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide training, education, information and guidance, relating to a wide range of health developmental and safety issues, including health promotion, to individuals and groups of children, colleagues, voluntary and statutory agencies.
- Under direction implement programmes of care.
- Participate in professional meetings/take minutes. e.g. care team meetings
- Under direction organise own workload, including own home visits, school visits and groups.
- Promote friendly and trust building relationships with children, young people and their families
- Maintain accurate records according to policies and procedures.
- Work within Safeguarding policies and procedures.
See Job description for further information.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide training, education, information and guidance, relating to a wide range of health developmental and safety issues, including health promotion, to individuals and groups of children, colleagues, voluntary and statutory agencies.
- Under direction implement programmes of care.
- Participate in professional meetings/take minutes. e.g. care team meetings
- Under direction organise own workload, including own home visits, school visits and groups.
- Promote friendly and trust building relationships with children, young people and their families
- Maintain accurate records according to policies and procedures.
- Work within Safeguarding policies and procedures.
See Job description for further information.
Person Specification
Essential and desirable
Essential
- BTEC National Diploma in Early Years. Awarded by EDEXEL or NNEB / Diploma in Childcare & Education (DCE) awarded by CACHE, or NVQ Level 3 in Early Years & ~Education awarded by C&G, CACHE, EDEXEL or OU plus short courses or relevant experience to diploma level equivalent
Person Specification
Essential and desirable
Essential
- BTEC National Diploma in Early Years. Awarded by EDEXEL or NNEB / Diploma in Childcare & Education (DCE) awarded by CACHE, or NVQ Level 3 in Early Years & ~Education awarded by C&G, CACHE, EDEXEL or OU plus short courses or relevant experience to diploma level equivalent
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
