Special School Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Specialist School Nursing service.

Our team are currently based across our specialist education settings in Plymouth and are looking to recruit additional team members to the growing service. The team support children and young people with a range of complex medical needs, to ensure they are safely able to access their education. They also provide a huge amount of support to children, young people and their families, as well as providing education and support to our partners in education and the wider multi disciplinary team. Together our nursing team and our education colleagues work to support and enhance the lives of children and young people living with long term and life limiting conditions, responding to emergency situations and escalating care needs as needed.

***Please note that applications from temporary workers who have been engaged with the Trust for a minimum of 3 months are welcome.***

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Job Purpose:

· To facilitate the care of children with long-term and acute conditions within the Specialist school setting thus reducing the need for hospital admission and / or enabling early discharge ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of nursing care, advice, education and support to Specialist school nursing team and education staff as well as children and their families in the community.

· To be responsible for the day-to-day operational management at the Specialist school and oversee and support colleagues including team of HCAs.

Key Dimensions:

· Working alongside the Lead Specialist School Nurse to ensure the continued provision of high quality care to all children through staff education, governance and professional development.

· To act an as an expert in this specialist role, co-ordinating care pathways and developing the service to meet national guidelines and standards.

· Ensure the provision of safe evidence based clinical care within the specialist school setting.

· Lead and co-ordinate multi-professionals in the provision of palliative/ terminal care for children’s who have life limiting conditions.

Working for our organisation

We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment manager for this post who will put you in touch with the recruitment team. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

PRIMARY DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Managerial

· Ensuring the efficient and effective provision of nursing care, advice, education and support to children and families within the specialist school provision.

· In conjunction with the Lead SSN ensure the effective use of resources, receiving requests for and ordering general and specialist equipment.

· Contribute to the co-ordination, collation and analysis of health data regarding children and young people with a long-term condition.

· Ongoing responsibility for the day-to-day operational management within the Specialist School Setting escalating to the Lead SSN as appropriate.

· With the support of the Lead SSN instigate and participate in the recruitment process within HR and recruitment guidelines.

For further details please see attached JD&PS.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY INCLUDING YOUR JUNK FOLDER.

If you need support with the online application process or require reasonable adjustments with the application and/or interview process please contact the Recruiting Manager for this post.

We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants about less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. We recommend contacting the manager of the role prior to applying and we commit to giving requests full consideration.

We welcome and encourage applicants who identify with all protected characteristics to apply for our roles. We believe that diversity strengthens our teams and improves our patients' experience. At UHP we aim to create an inclusive workplace and hospital where everyone feels they belong and included.

It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Providing false information is an offence & could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal/police action if an applicant is successful.

Please note that if you are successful in your application & accept the position you agree that the Staff Health and Wellbeing Department can access your health records from your current/previous employer in order to check the status of your inoculations & screening tests. This is an automated process & the information will only be used for these purposes prior to your taking up the position with us.

For Doctors Roles:

Unsolicited CVs and Candidate Profiles/Details
University Hospitals Plymouth has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies.

We do, however, work with a defined list of preferred HTE Framework suppliers who may be invited to support us in sourcing candidates for particular roles.

In line with our preferred supplier list, we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of the Trust’s Medical Workforce team.

We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to the Trust or Trust employees by any other means than the official route above. Where this is not observed the Trust reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and initiate discussions without payment of any agency fee.

Any candidate details (whether written or spoken) or CVs that are referred directly will not constitute an introduction. The Trust will under no circumstances be responsible for any recruitment fees in relation to these contacts.

Submission of any unsolicited CVs, candidate’s details and/or proposals to the Trust will not be considered further and will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this Agency Protocol.

In order to establish and maintain good working relationships with the Trust’s agency suppliers, we ask that this Protocol is adhered to and thank you for your co-operation.