EOTAS School Nurse

Job summary

Are you a SCPHN qualified school nurse with 2 years clinical experience as a school nurse aspiring to take on a challenge and work with vulnerable children and young people in the borough of Waltham Forest?

The Education Other Than at School (EOTAS) nurse delivers the Healthy Child Programme in alternative provisions, colleges, Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) and Youth Offending Service. The post older will be expected to deliver key mandated checks and undertake health assessments, health promotion, manage health conditions in school and engage in safeguarding processes and procedures.

You will hold a clinical caseload for this cohort to support the achievement of a continuum of education provision for pupils with complex social, emotional, communication and behavioural difficulties working in partnership with key agencies. These young people will have a variety of needs that may impact on their overall health and development.

You will work collaboratively with the NEET programme (Not in Education, Employment or Training) and Behaviour and Child Missing in Education (BACME) services in supporting young people to optimise uptake and access of services that will support their management of health and well-being.

This is a part time role - hours are 22.5 per week.

Main duties of the job

• To meet the health needs of a defined client group.
• To be the main health representative for a defined client group of young people, in assessing and meeting their identified health needs through an ongoing programme of health surveillance, intervention, monitoring, and referral.
• To lead on and co-ordinate community-based specialist clinics within defined area/s of practice e.g. Audiology, Enuresis, Sexual Health, Complex care management.
• To attend relevant panels pertaining to individual young people within the caseload or to represent a colleague/s as appropriate within the Child and Family Health Team.
• To be a Health lead in the facilitation of health plans for individual young people accessing the EOTAS programme. To support this process there will be positive relationships Youth Services/Home Schooled and other specialist areas to enhance social inclusion in all plans.
• To contribute to the curriculum planning and provision of health education programmes for these vulnerable children and young people, in the most appropriate setting.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

Click here to know more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership- https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

Innovation and support for primary care

Being a great place to work

Integrating primary and community care

Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people

Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF

Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF

Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

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