Senior Special School Nurse

Job summary

Take your nursing career to the next level with our award-winning Special School Nursing Team.

This is more than a nursing role - it is an opportunity to develop leadership skills, shape services, and make a lasting impact on children and young people with complex health needs. Every day is different, from delivering skilled nursing care and managing caseloads to leading clinical decisions and training school staff.

You will build expertise in epilepsy and seizure management, enteral feeding, medicines management, clinical assessments, and respiratory care, while gaining valuable experience in safeguarding, service improvement, and multidisciplinary teamwork. As a senior nurse, you will oversee and support junior colleagues and ensure high-quality care.

We cover nine schools across Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, and the Isle of Wight, offering a structured rotational induction to broaden your experience. Our leadership training, blended learning package, and regular supervision will give you the confidence to mentor staff, lead training programmes, and drive service improvements. You will have opportunities to specialise as a link nurse, and access CPD funding to support your career progression.

A UK nursing registration, experience with children and young people, learning disabilities, and complex health needs, plus a full driving licence, are essential.

If you are looking for a rewarding leadership role where you can develop and grow, apply today!

Current role based in Southampton.

Main duties of the job

The Senior Special School Nurse (SSSN) will work as part of the special school nursing team in a multiagency and multidisciplinary environment.

You should have knowledge and experience of clinical skills including, but not limited to epilepsy and seizure management, enteral feeding, medications management including CDs, clinical assessments, suction and oxygen administration.

Your main duties will include managing the caseload and delegating tasks, line management of SSN and HCSW, planning and delivering training to school staff and peers, referrals to other agencies, safeguarding and multidisciplinary meeting attendance/ delegation, responsible for escalation of concerns or issues, liaison with school leaders and service line management.

Your clinical management oversight will include complex care planning, medications management, trouble-shooting clinical equipment, clinical observations and PEWS.

You will support the Special School Nurses and HCSW to deliver training to school staff, ensure competency of your SSN team and ensure training and quality compliance within Trust requirements.

You will be responsible for maintaining your own training, CPD and competency.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Adelaide Health Centre, Western Community Centre

William Macleod Way

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 4XE

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Adelaide Health Centre, Western Community Centre

William Macleod Way

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 4XE

Employer's website

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

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