Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen working in the special school nursing team in Northumberland. You will be working as part of a small friendly team visiting schools on the caseload to provide training, nursing advice and support to school staff, pupils and parents/carers. Full training and support will be given.



To assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care for children/young people with a range of disabilities within a Special School.



To provide skilled nursing support to enable children with complex health needs to access educational opportunities.



To provide health education and promotion to enable children with complex health needs to promote physical, emotional and mental health.



To offer training and support to education and social care staff specific to the needs of the individual children/young people.



We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?



Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.



Required to manage own caseload from children registered on the schools roll.



Manages own workload and maintains a day to day diary of work undertaken. Supervision and support is available from the senior nurses, the team lead and the Children's Community Nursing Team colleagues.



Assess the individual health needs of children



Offer evidence based preventative interventions, programmes of care and specialist packages



Provide training, support and advice to teachers and other school staff on a range of child health and medical issues



Identification of social care needs, including safeguarding from abuse.



Ensuring children receive the national immunisation programme.



Works with and organises clinics for visiting Consultant's and Dietitians



Takes every opportunity to undertake health promotion both formally and informally with the children/young people including the harms of smoking and unhealthy lifestyles.