Job summary
Senior School Nurse - Band 6 - Falcon Road Base Wandsworth
Term Time Only (0.77wte) & 2 WTE (All Year Round)
The School nursing Team is seeking dynamic individuals with a strong public health focus who are fully committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse school aged population. You will be a highly motivated individual with an interest in proactively managing health promotion initiatives.
If you'd like an exciting and rewarding career in School Nursing, CLCH can offer you a great next step.
We're recruiting band 6 School Nurses into an innovative, award winning and growing service. We cover primary, secondary and special needs schools across a wide area with diverse needs.
We offer support and mentoring from a great team including national School Nurse of the Year winners. You'll also be able to take on development and mentoring roles to help build your career and support our junior staff and student nurses. Our school nursing service has taken on four new boroughs in the last year and is building a reputation as one of London's strongest teams.
We've just been rated 'GOOD' by the Care Quality Commission. We're in the Health Service Journal's list of the top 120 best places to work and in Stonewall's top 40 employers list. CLCH is a great place to do a great job; helping give children a better start in life.
Main duties of the job
We deliver an excellent public health and child centred model of care, working with children aged 5-19, their families and education teams. We're looking for motivated and innovative school nurses keen to rise to the challenges of helping children.
We welcome applications from newly qualified and experienced School Nurses. Some of the benefits of working with CLCH include: a robust preceptorship programme for the first 12 months, outstanding safeguarding support from our safeguarding team, and comprehensive suite of training for school nurses, which supports revalidation, professional development opportunities and clinical supervision, staff awards and annual educators/mentors conference to celebrate the outstanding contributions made by our staff.
If you could be a future School Nurse of the Year, CLCH would love to help you get there. If you would like to join our team and make a tangible difference to children, young people and families lives we would like to hear from you.
You must have SCPHN - School Nursing (BSc course) qualification and RGN Registered Nurse (Adult or Paediatric).
For informal discussions and tour of our sites please contact one of our team leads:
Johanna Collier
Email: johanna.collier1@nhs.net
Tel: 07393006497
About us
Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C's apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a skilled, effective and evidence based service to children and young people within schools and community settings.
To act as a named school nurse for a cluster of nominated schools, applying specialist skills and knowledge in the delivery of the school health service
To develop an overview of the profiled health needs of the defined population alerting the Team Lead where any service gaps are identified.
To identify, prioritise and implement programmes of care that meet the public health needs of the defined school age population.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a skilled, effective and evidence based service to children and young people within schools and community settings.
To act as a named school nurse for a cluster of nominated schools, applying specialist skills and knowledge in the delivery of the school health service
To develop an overview of the profiled health needs of the defined population alerting the Team Lead where any service gaps are identified.
To identify, prioritise and implement programmes of care that meet the public health needs of the defined school age population.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Eudcation/Qalification
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Midwife (current)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse School Nursing / or Differing in Practice in school nursing
- Evidence of continuing post- registration education and training
Desirable
- Practice Assessor course
- PSHE Course
- Community nurse prescribing qualification or prepared to work towards.
Experience
Essential
- Recent school nursing experience
- Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
- Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
- Experience of organising and managing own workload
- Experience of assessing, planning and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
- Experience in providing practice based learning support to others
- Experience of evidence based care
- Experience of supervising students
Desirable
- Counselling qualification
- Teaching qualification
- Mental Health First Aid training
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of recent developments in primary care and community services
- Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice
- Current knowledge of safeguarding issues
- Appropriate knowledge of clinical skills
- Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
- Knowledge of NMC Code
- Knowledge of Personal Development Planning
- Knowledge of clinical supervision
- Knowledge of how equal opportunities can be implemented in practice
- Knowledge of managing difficult situations and conflict resolution
- IT, numeracy and literacy skills
Desirable
- Ability to work without direct supervision and plan, organise, review and prioritise own workload and others
- Able to delegate work effectively and safely
- Ability to be flexible and responsive to children/young people and organisational needs
- Critical appraisal skills and ability to utilise research evidence in practice
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Able to adapt to change and have an open approach to new ways of working
- Caseload organisational skills
- Able to travel within geographical areas using varying modes of transport
- Able to deliver the physical demands of the role e.g. carry work essential equipment
Person Specification
Eudcation/Qalification
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Midwife (current)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse School Nursing / or Differing in Practice in school nursing
- Evidence of continuing post- registration education and training
Desirable
- Practice Assessor course
- PSHE Course
- Community nurse prescribing qualification or prepared to work towards.
Experience
Essential
- Recent school nursing experience
- Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
- Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
- Experience of organising and managing own workload
- Experience of assessing, planning and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
- Experience in providing practice based learning support to others
- Experience of evidence based care
- Experience of supervising students
Desirable
- Counselling qualification
- Teaching qualification
- Mental Health First Aid training
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of recent developments in primary care and community services
- Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice
- Current knowledge of safeguarding issues
- Appropriate knowledge of clinical skills
- Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
- Knowledge of NMC Code
- Knowledge of Personal Development Planning
- Knowledge of clinical supervision
- Knowledge of how equal opportunities can be implemented in practice
- Knowledge of managing difficult situations and conflict resolution
- IT, numeracy and literacy skills
Desirable
- Ability to work without direct supervision and plan, organise, review and prioritise own workload and others
- Able to delegate work effectively and safely
- Ability to be flexible and responsive to children/young people and organisational needs
- Critical appraisal skills and ability to utilise research evidence in practice
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Able to adapt to change and have an open approach to new ways of working
- Caseload organisational skills
- Able to travel within geographical areas using varying modes of transport
- Able to deliver the physical demands of the role e.g. carry work essential equipment
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).