Lead Nurse for Special School Nursing & Mainstream School Training

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Community Children's Nurse to work in the special school nursing team as a clinical lead. The role will be integrated within the existing Specialist Community Children's Nursing Team, who are part of an integrated network of services for children and young people in Bexley and Greenwich providing high quality specialist child centred care. The team of specialist and generic children's community nurses provides skilled, high quality, comprehensive nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.,

• To lead, and oversee the daily operations of the special school nursing team.
• To create, and implement an annual training plan for both special school, and mainstream school staff for clinical interventions.
• To role model good clinical practice, while managing junior staff and supporting a complex caseload of children and young people.
  
  Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for
people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care