Job summary
Employer heading
School Nurse (Safeguarding Team)
Band 6
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Band 6 School Nurse) to join our friendly and dynamic Safeguarding Team. The role involves working closely with children, young people and their families to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities in the culturally diverse school aged population of Lewisham.
Main duties of the job
The candidate will be experienced in managing a safeguarding caseload and be passionate about working with school aged children and vulnerable young people. You will need to have the ability to work autonomously and as part of an integrated skill mix team. You need to have excellent communication skills and experience of working in partnership across organizational boundaries. You need to be willing to facilitate and support change in service delivery.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The post holder will act as an exemplar for best practice for the school age service and will help empower team members to develop and enhance services to the school age population of Lewisham.
- To work with the team manager for the School Health Service, to further develop new ways of practice to the school age population.
- To promote the health and wellbeing of the school child and young person so that they maybe enabled to reach their full potential and not be disadvantaged through ill health or disability.
- To take the lead in supporting and supervising the school nursing team aligned to Lewisham’s Family Hubs.
- To ensure that those children and young people who are vulnerable or whose needs are special are recognised and referred to the appropriate service or professional, so the needs of the child or young person are met e.g. looked after children excluded from school
- To work in partnership with parents, carers, education, Social care and Health, Healthy schools partnership and other relevant agencies to meet the needs of the School age population of Lewisham.
For more information please refer to the D and Person Spec
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Registered first level Nurse
- RGN/RN (Adult or Child Branch)
- RSCN
- Qualification as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nursing)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Has experience of effective working with other professionals and agencies.
- Experience as a School Nurse.
- Experience of working with adolescents and young people.
- Experience in managing a safeguarding caseload.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Wilma Munzara
- Job title
- Community Matron/5-19 Lead for School Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07823663970
- Additional information
Wilma Munzara
Community Matron & Lead for 5- 19 for School Health Services
Email address: [email protected]
Work mobile: 07823663970
Morolake Arifalo- SHS Safeguarding Team Manager
Mobile- 07584770527
Email- [email protected]
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