# Specialist School Nurse for Vulnerable Children and Young People

**Company**: Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
**Location**: Lewisham
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £49387.00 to £56515.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Band 7 Specialist School Nurse for Vulnerable Children and Young People to join our 5-19 School Health Service at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

The specialist role focuses on improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities for vulnerable children and young people outside mainstream education, including those attending Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), missing education, electively home educated or not in education, employment or training (NEET).

The successful candidate will provide specialist safeguarding expertise, clinical leadership and targeted health interventions, working collaboratively with families and multi-agency partners. Building trusting relationships with young people who have experienced trauma, disadvantage or difficulties engaging with services is central to this role.

The postholder will manage complex safeguarding caseloads, undertake holistic health assessments, coordinate care and contribute to child protection processes while supporting the wider School Health Team.

**Main duties of the job**

- Manage complex caseloads of vulnerable children and young people (CYP), including those attending Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), children missing education (CME), electively home-educated children and those not in education, employment or training (NEET).

- Undertake holistic health assessments, identify unmet needs and develop individualised care plans.

- Provide specialist safeguarding interventions, prepare child protection reports and attend conferences and multi-agency meetings.

- Build trusting relationships with vulnerable CYP who may have experienced trauma, disadvantage or disengagement from services.

- Work collaboratively with Social Care, education, Youth Justice and mental health services.

- Follow up A&E attendances, ensuring timely safeguarding interventions and referrals.

- Deliver targeted health promotion and early intervention.

- Provide clinical leadership, supervision and guidance to School Health practitioners.

- Support service development, clinical audit and monitoring of commissioned KPIs.

**About us**

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £49,387 to £56,515 per annum

- Permanent contract

- Full-time, flexible working, compressed hours

**Requirements**

- RN/RMN/RSCN/RNLD

- Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner BSc/M Level (School Nursing)

- M Level study (or equivalent experience)

- Significant and relevant experience as a specialist practitioner in school nursing

- Working with other professionals and in/with multi-agencies

- Experience of working with adolescents and young people in different settings

- Commitment to working as part of a multidisciplinary team

- Demonstrate a keen interest in public health and working in the community

- Demonstrate an understanding of Safeguarding Children

## Skills

### Required
- Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner
- School Nursing
- Safeguarding Children
- Public Health

### Nice to have
- Health Promotion qualification
- Sexual Health qualification
- Mental Health Experience

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