Clinical Nurse Specialist -School Nursing Team

Main area: Paediatric Community Nursing

Grade: Band 6

Contract: Permanent, full time, term time only (Mon-Fri 08:00-16:00)

Job ref: 200-7067779-GO-SMB

Employer: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Lindon Lodge Special Needs School

Town: London

Salary: £44,806 - £53,134 per annum HCAS (pro-rata)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 20/04/2025 23:59

Interview date: 05/05/2025

Clinical Nurse Specialist - School Nursing Team

Band 6

*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers

Job overview

• An exciting opportunity for a motivated and energetic nurse who enjoys working with children and young people with a variety of complex health and learning needs.
• The role involves working in a special school setting, alongside our education colleagues to ensure children and young people are given fair equal access to education.

Main duties of the job

• Join a team of mixed skill nurses to support children and young people in a school for CYP aged between 4-19 years old.
• Demonstrate good clinical skills and a willingness to learn new skills.
• Plan your workload and pre-empt the needs of the children on your caseload.
• Provide tracheostomy care, feeds via jejunostomy, gastrostomy, safe administering of medication, and airway maintenance using suctioning.
• Deliver care for the CYP while they are in their lessons, ensuring their education is as uninterrupted as possible.
• Maintain good safeguarding awareness and work effectively within a team.

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role.

Person specification

Knowledge

• National child protection and safeguarding procedures
• Level 3 mandatory child protection training within the last 3 years

Experience

• Minimum 3 years post registered experience
• Experience of working with children
• RCN

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Various stomas access, care and management

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.

If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The documents you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.