Senior Special School Nurse

This is more than a nursing role - its an opportunity to develop leadership skills, shape services, and make a lasting impact on children and young people with complex health needs. Youll build expertise in epilepsy and seizure management, enteral feeding, medicines management, clinical assessments, and respiratory care, while gaining valuable experience in safeguarding, service improvement, and multidisciplinary teamwork. As a senior nurse, youll oversee and support junior colleagues, delegate tasks, and ensure high-quality care. We cover nine schools across Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, and the Isle of Wight, offering a structured rotational induction to broaden your experience. Our leadership training, blended learning package, and regular supervision will give you the confidence to mentor staff, lead training programmes, and drive service improvements. Youll also have opportunities to specialise as a link nurse, and access CPD funding to support your career progression. A, To meet the needs of patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment. Care is based on comprehensive assessment, ensures continuity and is patient/client centred, culturally sensitive and evidence-based and which promotes independence.

Responsible for co-ordinating the work of the team, influencing clinical decisions and monitoring the quality of patient care provided through utilising and maintaining expert clinical knowledge relevant to own field of practice, underpinned by theory and expertise.

Manage a caseload/named nurse.

Supervise junior members of staff, students on placements.

To develop and maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality and safety and striving to do better.

This is in line with the requirements set out in the NMC code which require all registered nurses to:

Prioritise people; Practice effectively; Preserve safety; Promote professionalism and trust.

UK nursing registration, experience with children and young people, learning disabilities, and complex health needs, plus a full driving licence, are essential.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

£39,959 to £48,117 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata