School Nurse

Description:

Secondary School Nurse

Salary - £34494 pro rata

Hours - 36 Hours per week, 8am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, term time only

Location – Harrow Borough, North West London

Job Overview:

This role forms part of a wider pastoral team whose aim is to promote the physical health and emotional and mental wellbeing of students. You will be responsible for the provision of first aid services to students, staff and visitors and contribute to wider health strategies and practices across the school. You will need to have good communication and interpersonal skills, empathy and understanding of students’ development and needs and a flexible approach. You will line manage the part time Welfare Assistant.

KEY Responsibilities

Medical and First Aid

• Manage the medical room including care of sick and injured individuals anywhere on the premises. • Ensuring that students and staff are seen promptly, and any further treatment is identified.

• Ensure continuity of first aid provision for students.

• Manage the storage, maintenance, and administration of medication.

• Review, monitor and record the health status of all pupils to plan, deliver and evaluate care plans to enable them to attend and benefit from school.

• Coordinating and liaising with relevant staff and outside agencies to manage the vaccination programme.

• Coordinating and liaising with relevant staff and outside agencies for regular medical checks and School Health immunisations programmes.

• Assist staff in assessing and referral of students to specialist services.

• Develop and update health-related policies and preventative or risk reduction programmes of work in conjunction with other staff.

Communication and Record Keeping

• Oversee and ensure effective monitoring of the Welfare Room online database.

• Having an overview of the medical room and spotting patterns or trends in conjunction with the pastoral team.

• Ensure effective information sharing with relevant staff.

• Contacting parents as appropriate and ensuring thorough records are kept of conversations and any action taken.

• Complete accident reports and advising necessary action to be taken.

• Ensure confidentiality of student and staff information.

• Liaise with public health teams.

• To ensure statutory CPD for staff is delivered.

General

• Ensure that the medical room, facilities and first aid provision are maintained to a high standard.

• Maintain and improve professional qualifications, knowledge, and competence and keep up to date with

professional, clinical, and nursing issues relevant to work in schools.

• The ability to prioritise under pressure.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to interact with people at all levels

combining confidence and assertiveness in a calm, courteous and professional manner.

• Competent IT skills.

• Tact and discretion.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Appropriate nursing qualification

• NMC registration

• First Aid at work qualification

• Evidence of ongoing post registration training i.e., asthma, diabetes

Experience

• Experience of working with children

• Experience of providing first aid

• Experience of occupational health

Skills, Knowledge, and Aptitudes

• Knowledge of child protection and confidentiality issues

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Able to work effectively in collaboration and on own initiative

• High standard of clinical work, decision making and competence

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to relate to pupils

• Organisation and time management skills

• IT skills

• Line management

• Awareness of current developments in school nursing