Job summary
Job Title: SEND Trust Nurse
Closing Date: 22nd November 2024
Interview: 29th November 2024
Start Date: As soon as possible
Salary: NHS Band 7 FTE (£46,148 to £52,809)
Pension: NHS Pension
Scheme
Hours: Full Time
(52 wks) 37.5 hours per week
Responsible to: Chair of Compliance, Safety & Wellbeing Committee / Interagency Committee / CEO
Location: The Special Partnership
Trust Office, Pencalenick, School, Truro with travel to other schools within Cornwall.
Hybrid Working: Yes
Contract type: Permanent
This is a new and exciting role within the Special Partnership Trust, an extraordinary
Multi-Academy Trust who are redefining Special Educational Needs in the UK. Our
mission is clear; to be a force for good in SEN and make a positive difference
to people's lives. We challenge conventions, pioneer excellence, and work
tirelessly to create better tomorrows for our young people and their families.
The Special Partnership Trust is a specialist provider that is
continuing to grow and develop Special Educational Needs (SEN) provision across
the South West.The Trust is
currently developing innovative approaches to deliver a new, integrated
specialist healthcare provision across the Trust. This means there are new
opportunities to work as part of our team.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone who will lead the development of a
comprehensive pupil healthcare approach across the Trust, working with
specialist professionals as part of an interagency team. The successful
candidate will lead the delivery of a comprehensive health offer to pupils with
complex health needs, working with partners, parent, carers, and manage a Trust
team of Healthcare Leads. The postholder will be supported by Trust services to
develop career pathways for Trust staff as part of a sustainable approach to
supporting SEND.
The opportunity would suit a knowledgeable healthcare individual that is passionate about supporting young people. Someone, who is excited, curious and motivated to find solutions and make a difference.
If you believe you have the necessary skill set to work with partners to develop a new innovative service that forms a crucial aspect of the high-quality specialist provision that the Trust delivers, we would like to hear from you.
About us
Benefits:
We provide our staff with a diverse range of benefits that support their day to day needs both at work and outside of work. These include:
- NHS Pension for Healthcare staff through directional body status.
- 37 days paid holiday (incl. bank holidays) for Support Staff, from start of employment with the Trust.
- Access to Extra Special, the Trusts employee reward portal. The portal provides access to all our employee benefits including hundreds of retailer discounts and cash back offers.
- Simply Health Optimise Health Plan supporting employees and their families with health care costs and also including access to counselling services, health checks and other tools via a myWellbeing App.
- Employees Assistance Programme, designed to help staff deal with personal and professional problems.
- Occupational Health support from Medigold Health Protect and access to Thrive, a clinically led NHS approved mental wellbeing App.
- Cycle 2 Work Scheme via salary sacrifice.
- Discounted gym memberships with Better Leisure.
- Learning & Development/CPD opportunities.
Contact us:If you would like to discuss the role in confidence please contact Guy Chappell, CEO, on 07807 495402 or Ruth Carpenter, Headteacher Nancealverne School on 01736 365039.
Our Trust HR Manager can also be contacted on 07881 352691 or by email: spope@specialpartnership.org
For further information and an application form, please visit our vacancy page on our website:www.specialpartnership.org
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full Job Description as an uploaded document.
Role
Summary and Primary Purpose:
Required to lead the health
provision on behalf of the Trust, overseeing and undertaking a number of
diverse specialist and nursing procedures to support the complex health of pupils
with significant health needs to maintain their ability to access school.
This will be through using skills that would have been gained through formal
qualifications and considerable relevant work experience.
Employees in roles at
this level are expected to work unsupervised for much of the time, accessing
and assessing information independently. Working within regulations of the
Nursing Code of Conduct, Trust Code of Conduct, Trust policies and
safeguarding requirements.
Developing
professional networks and additional capacity to support the delivery of a
highly specialist SEN offer across the Trust.
Working with and
alongside the Specialist Intervention Team, developing the specialist
capacity and expertise across the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full Job Description as an uploaded document.
Role
Summary and Primary Purpose:
Required to lead the health
provision on behalf of the Trust, overseeing and undertaking a number of
diverse specialist and nursing procedures to support the complex health of pupils
with significant health needs to maintain their ability to access school.
This will be through using skills that would have been gained through formal
qualifications and considerable relevant work experience.
Employees in roles at
this level are expected to work unsupervised for much of the time, accessing
and assessing information independently. Working within regulations of the
Nursing Code of Conduct, Trust Code of Conduct, Trust policies and
safeguarding requirements.
Developing
professional networks and additional capacity to support the delivery of a
highly specialist SEN offer across the Trust.
Working with and
alongside the Specialist Intervention Team, developing the specialist
capacity and expertise across the Trust.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant practical experience of working with special needs pupils giving rise to a variety of clinical skills such as gastrostomy feeding, tracheostomy care, suction, deep suctioning, diabetes, complex and epilepsy and seizure management and sound understanding of the services available, work practices and processes relevant to the role within school. Changing of gastrostomy buttons as well as knowledge of complex care needs of CYP with severe and profound LD.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to make clinical decisions and recommendations about particular areas of work. Supporting staff with clinical judgements and therefore the need to inform. Referring to Senior Professionals ie Lifetime; Hospice Care, Consultants, GPs etc.
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinician qualification to at least level 1 Registered Nursing qualification relevant to the school age pupils. You will be an experienced RCN and hold a current NMC registration.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant practical experience of working with special needs pupils giving rise to a variety of clinical skills such as gastrostomy feeding, tracheostomy care, suction, deep suctioning, diabetes, complex and epilepsy and seizure management and sound understanding of the services available, work practices and processes relevant to the role within school. Changing of gastrostomy buttons as well as knowledge of complex care needs of CYP with severe and profound LD.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to make clinical decisions and recommendations about particular areas of work. Supporting staff with clinical judgements and therefore the need to inform. Referring to Senior Professionals ie Lifetime; Hospice Care, Consultants, GPs etc.
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinician qualification to at least level 1 Registered Nursing qualification relevant to the school age pupils. You will be an experienced RCN and hold a current NMC registration.
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).