Job Description

The Special School Nursing Team is a county wide service consisting of nurses and healthcare support workers who are based within the Special Schools. We work within the primary and secondary schools in Northamptonshire and deliver the healthy child programme which includes health promotion to ensure children and young people with additional healthcare needs can access their full educational curriculum. We work closely with our colleagues in the community, acute, social and education settings. We delivery competency based training programme to the Special School teams, working in partnership with schools to meet the needs of the children and young people



The post holder will be lone working in other settings and we want to recruit a forward thinking, dynamic healthcare support worker into this permanent position. The post holder will be part of a developing and progressing service working with colleagues who present with enthusiasm for innovative and high standards of practice and be able to work autonomously.



As a healthcare support worker the post holder will be working alongside the special school nurses who are responsible for managing allocated school caseloads, the role requires you work alongside children and young people with varying needs, health needs, to support and to present health promotion sessions tailored to meet the needs of the caseload, to carry out delegated appropriate tasks such as blood pressure monitoring, reviewing height and weight, support with immunisation clinics and work in collaboration with other agencies. The post holder will support with the administration processes in the team such as registering children and young people, coordinating clinic sessions for immunisations.



NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.



NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.



For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the 'About You' Section of the document.