Band 6 School Nurse

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 lead a multidisciplinary team of school health staff who will work with children, young people and families to identify relevant health needs and ensure these are addressed in line with the agreed service pathways. To lead in the development of multi-agency partnerships at school and district level. To manage Band 5 nursing colleagues in the delivery of medical needs training programmes for schools within the caseload. To maximise the visibility and accessibility of school health services in the locality through local promotion and engagement with schools, pupils (including through the school ambassadors programme) partner agencies and voluntary sector To create a learning environment and be responsible for mentoring of pre-registration students and long arm mentoring of post registration students in line with BCHC guidelines for
long arm mentoring. To undertake holistic assessment of children and young people meeting the criteria for assessment. To write and deliver care plans to meet the needs identified at health assessment, delegation of this work where appropriate. To contribute to multi agency interventions for children subject to safeguarding; Early Help or SEND. To undertake the development of and participate in school partnership agreements and district profiles and utilise available demographic data to identify health trends in order to plan effective services to meet the needs of the individual,school and community populations To be a liaison agent between the children, teachers, parents, medical officers, the appropriate primary health care teams and others. To carry out home visits as required To work in settings other than schools as necessary to meet the needs of the child and their families To deliver a drop in session in senior schools To lead allocation meetings where work to be carried
out in schools will be equitably distributed across the team. To maintain accurate records and prepare reports as necessary, ensuring their confidentiality and to offer support to other members of the team in doing so. To participate in case conferences, case reviews and core groups where school health interventions are being provide To write court reports as required in conjunction with legal services. To undertake cover for colleagues as designated by the Team Leader. To support the medicines in schools policy. To participate in trust clinical governance and audit programmes. To be able to use software packages appropriate to clinical care and to ensure data is entered onto the system in a timely and accurate manner. To ensure all relevant activity and outcomes are recorded on Rio electronic patient record and other systems in line with service requirements to ensure service activity and effectiveness can be fully evidenced To engage in the ChatHealth
text messaging service. To work flexibly up until 6pm on weekdays and occasional weekends to meet service needs. To undertake the role of duty nurse and to lead at allocation meetings.