Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Band 5 Special School Nurse
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Band 5 Special School Nurse
Would you like an opportunity to join a community based nursing team?
This post will be working across the city-wide special school nursing service implementing and delivering specialist nursing care in a special school environment. The successful candidate will be required to carry out assessments; provide both planned and responsive clinical care and ensure that local safeguarding policies are adhered to.
- They will be identified as a role model for the Band 5 Special School Nurses and Enteral Feeding Assistants and will also support education staff and offer advice and support to parents and pupils.
We would welcome applications from enthusiastic committed children’s nurses with proven clinical experience who have excellent communication skills and are able to manage their time effectively.
- An understanding of the needs of children and young people with disability and/or additional health problems is essential.
You will be working 30 hours per week, on a term time only contract and will be required to move around to different bases across the city.
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The post holder will work as part of a team to participate in the delivery of health care and promote the health and welfare of children attending Special Schools and to acknowledge and respect the individual rights and personal dignity of the students.
The post holder will work autonomously within their sphere of professional practice, working within teams and service guidelines and objectives.
To be involved in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individual care needs in line with the core offer of service.
- To take charge of a designated area in the absence of the band 6 Special School Nurse.
- To support the teaching of competencies to nursing and education staff.
To ensure high quality core offer from the Special School Nursing Service consists of:
- assessment and review
- hands on clinical care
- key worker and signposting including transition
- training and supervision, and
- a general role in optimising long term health and lifestyles
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
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If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
For further details please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Thangila Miah
- Job title: Office Manager
- Email address: thangila.miah1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07743192870
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