Band 5 Special School Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Term time hours
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves working as part of a community-based nursing team, delivering specialist nursing care in a special school environment. The post holder will conduct assessments, provide clinical care, and ensure safeguarding policies are followed. They will also support education staff and offer advice to parents and pupils. The role requires working autonomously within professional practice guidelines and contributing to the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of individual care needs.
Key responsibilities
- Participate in the delivery of health care and promote the health and welfare of children attending Special Schools.
- Work autonomously within your sphere of professional practice, within teams and service guidelines.
- Be involved in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individual care needs.
- Take charge of a designated area in the absence of the band 6 Special School Nurse.
- Support the teaching of competencies to nursing and education staff.
- Act as the named nurse for one or more Schools within a quadrant grouping providing health surveillance specialist advice and clinical programmes of care.
Essential criteria
- Educated to the following level: oRelevant professional qualification - RSCN or RN Child Branch or RNLD
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Experience of recent community/acute healthcare gained through education or work experience placement or previous employment.
- Awareness of professional issues and recent developments in the NHS
- Knowledge of up to date clinical practice
- Sound communication and interpersonal skills (verbal and written)
- Ability to cope with change
- Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, taking into account Trust policies and procedures
- Ability to motivate and organise others to ensure best practice.
- Ability to travel to work and other locations as required.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to organise own work
- Ability to use own initiative
- Able to support the implementation of local and national agenda's for health under the guidance of the team lead / ward manager.
- Ability to work under pressure
- Flexible and adaptable
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Band 5 Special School Nurse
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested
Please note there are 2 x Band 5 Special School Nurse posts available: one is for 30 hours per week and one is for 35 hours per week TTO.
Would you like an opportunity to join a community based nursing team?
This post will be working across the city-wide special school nursing service implementing and delivering specialist nursing care in a special school environment. The successful candidate will be required to carry out assessments; provide both planned and responsive clinical care and ensure that local safeguarding policies are adhered to.
They will be identified as a role model for the Band 5 Special School Nurses and Enteral Feeding Assistants and will also support education staff and offer advice and support to parents and pupils.
We would welcome applications from enthusiastic committed children's nurses with proven clinical experience who have excellent communication skills and are able to manage their time effectively.
An understanding of the needs of children and young people with disability and/or additional health problems is essential.
You will be required to move around to differen
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