Band 6 School Nurse

Our school nurses work with children aged 5 to 19 in over 400 mainstream schools across Birmingham every day. As well as the 'core' school nurse team funded by local commissioners, our Traded Services dedicated team provides an unrestricted range of school nursing services purchased directly by schools specifically to meet local school health needs.

Growing demand for this popular programme means we want to recruit dynamic, enthusiastic and highly motivated registered nurses to join our expanding school nursing traded services dedicated team. You will work with a group of named schools as a trusted clinical member of their extended professional team, supporting children and young people, and schools' wider communities, to achieve their full potential.

Attending your schools regularly to an agreed schedule you will provide school nursing services tailored upon agreed needs and outcomes in each case.

If you are looking for a challenging role in which no two days are the same, we want to meet you! We need nurses who can work well with children, young people, families and educational professionals, who are adaptable and innovative and who enjoy working autonomously and as part of a team.

To successfully apply for this term-time only Band 6 post the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse degree in School Nursing is an essential requirement. You will also demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be able to work effectively with colleagues, clients and our school customers. You will understand the current guidance and public health outcomes within school nursing, safeguarding, and also possess knowledge of the health needs of the children and communities in which they will work.

To make effective use of our mobile working technology and IT systems you will also have good IT skills.

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. BCHC 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.

BCHC's Children & Families Division brings together all the specialist community services for children and young people across Birmingham and offers a coordinated approach to child health care. It also delivers the universal children's services of health visiting, mainstream school nursing and the paediatric eye screening service for the South Birmingham population.

Main Duties

The post holder will be working as part of the Traded Services School Nursing Team, providing services purchased directly by schools and other settings and which are additional to the core services commissioned under local public health commissioning

To maintain the Code of Professional Conduct as laid down by the NMC and be responsible for the recording and re-registration of all nursing qualifications.

To plan and carry out health education programmes for schools within the caseload and to advise teaching staff about health education programmes relevant to the needs of school aged children, within the remit of the traded services programme.

To identify and monitor children giving cause for concern or considered to be at risk of abuse and to take the appropriate action as identified in the local child protection procedures. To advise and support members of the team appropriately

To undertake the development of and participate in school health profiles and utilise available demographic data to identify health trends in order to plan effective services to meet the needs of the individual and school population.

To be a liaison agent between the children, teachers, parents, medical officers, the appropriate primary health…