Staff Nurse - Special School | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Are you an experienced Paediatric or Learning disabilities nurse with a passion to deliver high quality nursing care in a special school environment.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Paediatric Nurse/Learning Disabilities Nurse to join the Special School Nursing Team at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust.
The team provides specialist nursing to 5 schools across Huddersfield and Halifax and you will work within the team. Initially based at Spring Hall/ Ravenscliffe Secondary School in Halifax as a band 5 nurse. It will be expected that you are able to support in all of the schools on an as required basis to rotate skills and staff.
- Provide clinical children's nursing care within the special school setting.
- Develop and implement care for children and young people with complex needs and disability who attend special school
- Take a lead role in the management and support of junior staff on the school site.
- Escalate any concerns to SSNT Team Leader.
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards.Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.- Plan, Implement and evaluate care for children and young people in school setting.
- Identifying and providing child specific health care procedures, training for school staff, including competency based assessments where required.
- Use professional knowledge to provide evidence based practice
- Contribute to single and multiagency safeguarding of disabled children, young people and young adults.
- Demonstrate highly skilled and innovative practice and support new ways of working.
- Demonstrate robust assessment skills and recognise the timely need for appropriate action and onward referral and involvement of other agencies.
- Promote best practice and work within the MDT and education staff.
This advert closes on Monday 10 Mar 2025