Special School Nurse | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

The Special Schools Nursing Network collaborates with special schools to ensure that children with complex health needs can safely access their education. Working as a network strengthens the capacity within the nursing service, ensuring training and competency assessments of school staff are prioritised and effectively delivered across designated schools. This is achieved through training and assessing the competencies of school staff, who provide hands-on care to meet the health needs of children and young people. The nursing team will work across the network to ensure there is a shared workforce that can meet the safety needs of all children within the designated special schools.
The Special Schools Nurses triage and assess to identify any health tasks that can be delegated to school staff, who are then trained, supervised, and competency-assessed to deliver the health tasks This supervision and observation continues throughout the year, ensuring school staff feel supported and remain competent. Additionally, staff receive updated training and their competency is reassessed annually or sooner if required.

The post holder should possess strong clinical skills to deliver training and competency assessments. You must be able to present power point presentations and clinical skills demonstrations to varied audiences, from one-to-one sessions to small or large groups, including whole-school groups. You will also need to answer queries as well as signpost to other services or professionals when appropriate.

Empathy towards children and young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, along with excellent communication skills, are essential qualities for the post holder.

If you feel ready to take on this challenge, we would love to hear from you. In return, we will support yourdevelopment within the role and, if desired, help you progress in your career.

Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we've got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn't visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won't involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both