Job summary

Would you like the opportunity to really make a difference to children and young people with additional needs? Do you have the drive, passion and commitment we are looking for?

The School Nursing Special Needs team enables and empowers children and young people with complex health and behavioural needs to access schools safely.

We are looking for a Health Care Support Worker with experience of working with children and young people with learning disabilities, to work within the schools across the district.

In return we offer a place within a supportive, forward thinking, innovative team of likeminded individuals, who keep our children and young people the centre of all we do.

This post is hours per week

Closing date : 24th April 2024

Shortlisting : 25th April 2024

Interview : 2nd May 2024

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will support identified children and young people with their individual needs and will be required to develop their skills in the care and managements of Tracheostomy and gastrostomy interventions in an allocated school.

In addition to this, they will work as part of the School Nursing Special Needs (SNSN) team in providing health care support to the children and young people in the special schools across Bradford, Airedale and Craven.

To work as part of a team, supporting the School Nursing Special Needs service to deliver high standards of care to the children and young people on our caseload.

To work as part of a multi-agency team within a special school under the direction of the band 6 senior nurse and Team Leader.

To facilitate the health and wellbeing of Children attending special school through providing training, health promotion sessions , carrying out growth measurements and audiology screening sessions within the special schools and supporting children for health interventions with preparation work.

To work as part of the team to promote and be a support to nurses delivering immunisations in schools and clinic settings

To help raise the profile of the School Nursing Special Needs team by working as part of the team with the upkeep and support of our social media platforms.

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values : -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for >

3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received .

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and the person the specification for more details about this role.

Person Specification

Clinical

Essential

Experience of working with children with a learning disability and complex health needs

Desirable

Experience of working those with behavioral needs

Experience

Essential

Community experience

Desirable

school experience

Skills

Essential

• delivered health promotion

Last updated : 2024-04-19