Nurse Team Leader - SEN Schools

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Special Schools Nurse Team Leader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This is an exciting opportunity for a compassionate, highly motivated, and forward-thinking nurse with experience in working with children with special education needs and disability.

We provide health care support for children and young people with medical needs across our four Special Schools within East & North Hertfordshire. We have part or full-time positions available. We are a flexible and supportive team and will consider a full time/non term time position and school working hours. The post will involve working across the four special schools within East & North Hertfordshire.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

Working collaboratively with children, families, carers, school staff and the wider multi-disciplinary team within the education setting to ensure a supportive and caring learning environment.

You will be responsible for co-ordinating & leading the nursing team at an allocated school site and provide support to the wider special school nursing team.

You will be passionate about providing compassionate care in a school setting, have excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

You will be responsible for providing advice and support to families and education staff and providing training and competency assessments to education staff.

You will be responsible for providing and compassionate and high-quality nursing care to support children and young people to safely access our special schools. The role includes delivering direct nursing care and supporting pupils with medication management, epilepsy management, enteral feeding, diabetic management, and respiratory care.

The role will include teaching/training and supporting the school team in meeting and maintaining the health needs of the children and young people attending school.

This role requires you to be flexible in a constantly changing environment and to respond to emergency needs as they arise.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

o The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

o New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

o Hertford County, Hertford

o Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Special Schools - Amwell View

Station Road

Stanstead Abbotts

SG12 8EH

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Special Schools - Amwell View

Station Road

Stanstead Abbotts

SG12 8EH

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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