Band 6 Childrens Nurse School

Position: Band 6 Childrens Nurse House School
# Band 6 Childrens Nurse - Exeter House School## Job Introduction We are delighted to invite applications for a
** Band 6 Children’s Nurse
** to join Exeter House School. This rewarding role offers the opportunity to combine clinical expertise with leadership, supporting children and young people with complex health needs in a specialist school setting.
** This is a part-time role working 26.25 hours per week.
**** As a Band 6 Children’s Nurse working in Exeter House School, you will support the attendance and inclusion of children with complex medical needs at Exeter House School by:
*** Providing nursing support, training, and advice to colleagues at Exeter House School to enable and empower them to feel confident with meeting complex health needs.
* Being a point of contact at school for health information and support/sign posting for families and carers to ensure children have improved health and education outcomes.
* Working in close partnership with a range of other statutory and voluntary agencies, ensuring that children access the right support at the right time
* Providing training and, where applicable, child specific competency sign- off, ensuring school can safely meet assessed health needs and are confidently able to follow child specific care plans
* Support with maintaining school training records in relation to health needs training/clinical skills training
* Writing and updating individual health care plans where applicable
* Supporting with health needs risk assessments to support inclusion and access to activities
* Ensuring medicines are appropriately managed within school and to support staff with staff administration of medication as per child specific care plans and consent from parents/carers to administer
** The successful candidate will have:**### Essential
* RSCN or equivalent
* Current registration with the NMC
* Able to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary interagency team.
* Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
* Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
* Ability to prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands and meeting deadlines.
* Commitment to client-centred practice.
* Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments.
* Ability to communicate effectively complex and sensitive written and verbal information.
* Ability to maintain accurate records within professional and organisational guidelines and process.
* Broad knowledge of normal child development
* Working knowledge of a wide range of nursing models of practice.
* Working knowledge of relevant legislation and national guidelines.
* Working knowledge and evidence of observational implementation of therapeutic assessments, interventions relevant to children and young people.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* IT skills (or willingness to learn)
* Evidence of the implementation of risk assessments.
* Significant experience of working within the community/primary care setting.
* Three years, proven relevant post registered experience.
* Proven experience of working with children with palliative or end of life nursing needs.
* Holds a current driving licence and a well-maintained car for work use, with business use insurance.
* Ability to prioritise and manage own emotional wellbeing, recognising when stress is impacting negatively on work and personal life.
** Desirable:
*** Community Specialist Practitioner Degree or Diploma (or documented experience of working in the community)
* Experience of working with children with complex and/or additional needs.
* Proven experience of working with children using ventilators and tracheostomies (or equivalent experience.
** Other requirements
*** Ability to travel to meet the needs of the job.
** Package Description
** As a
** Band 6 Children’s Nurse
** you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* ** Band 6 AfC Salary Pro Rata with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
*** Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well…