Special School Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Term time hours
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Special School Nurse (Band 5 or 6) to provide specialist healthcare support to children and young people with medical needs in Ealing Special schools. The nurse will work autonomously, providing leadership to HCAs, and collaborate with children, parents, and partners to improve health outcomes. The position involves working Monday to Friday, 8:00-16:00, on a term-time contract. Applicants should be highly motivated and enthusiastic, with experience or interest in working with children with additional needs.
Key responsibilities
- Provide an excellent, high quality service to children in Ealing with additional needs.
- Support one or several special schools in Ealing.
- Work closely with children, their parent/carers and key partners to improve health outcomes.
- Support children with special needs to achieve their full potential within all settings.
- Maintain good communication and working relationships with school staff and leadership team.
- Act as an effective role model to healthcare assistants/support workers/school staff and students.
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered nurse - RNChild / LD Nurse / Community Children's Nurse
- Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
- Previous experience as a Band 6 in children's services or a Band 5 nurse with significant experience in clinical setting catering for children.
- Recent experience with children's nursing within acute/community or school setting/ children nursing.
- Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
- Able to demonstrate partnership working with agencies
- Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- Able to maintain electronic patient records Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing
- You are expected to have the skills required to act as a professional, registered nurse and adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct.
- Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
- Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
- Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
- Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
- Ability to carry out the duties of the post with or without adaptions
- Able to work efficiently in the community
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship qualification
- Epilepsy PET 1 & 2 course
- Independent & Supplementary Prescribing Course
- Previous experience working in Special school
- Community experience
- Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
- Intravenous Training (theory & practice)
- Awareness of the health needs of children and young people
- An understanding of clinical governance framework in relation to practice
- Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
- Access to Car or other motor vehicle for use for work purposes
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £45,953 – £54,254 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 12d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Special School Nurse
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking to recruit a Special School Nurse (Band 5 or 6) to provide specialist health care support for children and young people with medical needs for the Ealing Special schools.
We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic staff who are able to work to work autonomously and provide leadership for HCA's . Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you have the enthusiasm to join the well established team and support transformation?
Currently the Special School Nursing Team are based in the schools, working Monday to Friday 8.00-16.00, Term Time Contract/Full time.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providing an excellent, high quality service to the children of Ealing who have additional needs and support one or several of the special schools in Ealing. Your work will entail working closely with children, their parent/carers and key partners to improve health outcomes and support children with special needs to achieve their full potential within all settings; at home, community and at school.
Good communication and working relationships with the school staff and school leadership team is an essential part of the role.
We welcome applications from children's or learning disability nurses with experience o
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