Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist School Nurse
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Specialist School Nurse Role
We are seeking to appoint dynamic and enthusiastic candidates to the role of Specialist School Nurse, located at Cedar House, within our St. Michael's Community Hospital site within the Specialist School Nursing team. The weekly hours for this role will be agreed at interview for the successful candidate.
About the Role
With the expansion of the Specialist School Nursing Team, there is an opportunity for experienced children’s nurses with an interest in specialist school nursing to join our Babies, Children and Young People Division. The service currently covers the Borough of Enfield and includes 7 Specialist School providers based over multiple sites.
The role is ideal for an experienced children’s nurse, with robust clinical skills who is able to work autonomously and as part of a team. Experience working in acute and community children’s services is desirable.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for supporting Enfield special schools to manage the health needs of children and young people with complex health needs, profound learning disabilities, social and emotional needs.
- Work in partnership with school staff and multi-agency staff and working across sites.
- Cover the duty shifts rota on a weekly basis as part of the team.
- Coordinate care between doctors, specialist nurses, allied health professionals, school staff, parents and carers to ensure seamless health care is provided for CYP.
- Act as a source of information, support, advice and training for families and school staff.
- Carry out home visits and other community visits as part of holistic case management.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
About the Service
The Special School Nursing Team are responsible for the assessment, delivery and co-ordination of nursing care for children with special educational needs who attend the designated special schools.
About North Mid
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
About Training
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Angela Pearce
- Job title: Clinical Team Leader - Specialist School Nursing
- Email address: angela.pearce2@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0208 887 2000
Take a tour of our hospital here
Please Note
- We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
- The successful applicant may not work in Paediatrics upon completing their apprenticeship should no vacancies be present.
- Currently there are approximately 1400 children in total ranging from 3 to 19 years old attending the Special Schools. The children have long-term complex medical, neurological illnesses, mental health illnesses and some have learning disabilities.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location