Healthcare Assistant Special Schools Nursing Team

To provide & promote health care for students with Special Needs and Complex Healthcare Needs. Work as part of Special School Nurse Team. To provide & promote health care for students with Special Needs and Complex Healthcare Needs. Involved in delivery of clinical care in accordance with healthcare plans. Supporting the school nurse with medicines management within the Special schools Assisting with health assessments Supporting the school nurse to manage clinical emergencies. To support the special school nurse with the training and competence of education staff To be familiar with IT systems such as Microsoft word. To have experience supporting children with special educational needs or be willing to do so. To maintain accurate clinical records and to update patient records in a timely manner. To recognise the child at risk discussing in the first instance with the line manager and complying with the Trust and London Child Protection procedures.

The Community Children's Nursing Service is part of a network of services for children in Greenwich and Bexley providing high quality specialist child centred care. The Nursery Nurse will work as part of this team but will be based within the special schools setting. The post holder must possess good communication skills and be able to work as part of the wider Community Children's Nursing Service.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care