Whittington Health
Special School Nurse
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Role Overview
The post holder will be the lead for safeguarding in the Islington School Nursing team; working independently to manage a designated caseload of children and young people attending the Alternative Provisions (AP) in Islington and the Elected Home Educated (EHE) caseload.
Responsibilities
- Complete initial health assessments for all children and young people registered with the respective services.
- Deliver one-on-one and/or group sessions on a range of health promotion topics, particularly relating to lifestyle choices.
- Deliver the core Healthy Child Programme (0-19), in line with mainstream school nursing.
- Carry individual cases of children needing direct support and monitoring including safeguarding concerns.
- Work closely with children, young people, parents/carers and staff within the AP/EHE teams in planning interventions and supporting referral on to other agencies where necessary.
Key Responsibilities
- To be the named school nurse for the Alternative Provisions in Islington and Elective Home Educated Caseload.
- To work in collaboration with key staff and partners working within the Islington APS and EHE teams.
- To provide initial health assessments to all young people entering the services with an annual review as appropriate.
- To act as the lead professional ensuring entry into early intervention, or referral onto specialist services such as sexual health, substance misuse, speech and language therapy, smoking cessation and CAMHS.
- To take the lead for Safeguarding within the SN team, being responsible for maintaining up to date knowledge in this field and passing information to the whole service and supporting the team with safeguarding caseload management.
- In this clinical area to develop, implement and maintain standards and protocols, complete audits and complete the annual service report.
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About Us
We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.
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Our Mission
Helping local people live longer, healthier lives.
Our Vision
Provide safe, personal, co-ordinated care for the community we serve.
Our Goals
We have developed six key strategic goals to make sure we continue to support people to live longer, healthier lives.
- To secure the best possible health and wellbeing for all our community.
- To integrate and coordinate care in person-centred teams.
- To deliver consistent, high quality, safe services.
- To support our patients and users in being active partners in their care.
- To be recognised as a leader in the fields of medical and multi-professional education, and population-based clinical research.
- To innovate and continuously improve the quality of our services to deliver the best outcomes for our local population.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Comfort Aba Asmah
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- Phone number: 07917267489
- Email address: comfort-aba.asmah@nhs.net
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