Take your nursing career in a new direction with our award-winning Special School Nursing Team.
This is more than a nursing role - its an opportunity to develop specialist clinical skills, build leadership experience, and make a real difference to children and young people with complex health needs. Every day is different, from delivering hands-on care and managing medicines to training school staff and leading on clinical decisions.
Youll gain experience in epilepsy and seizure management, enteral feeding, medicines management, clinical assessments, and respiratory care, alongside skills in care planning, safeguarding, and multidisciplinary teamwork.
We cover nine schools across Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, and the Isle of Wight, offering a structured rotational induction to help you develop a broad skill set. Our blended learning training package, leadership training, and regular supervision will give you the confidence to delegate, make clinical decisions, and progress in your career. Youll also have opportunities to become a link nurse in a specialist area of interest, take on supervisory responsibilities, and access tailored CPD funding to support your professional growth.
A valid UK nursing registration, experience with children and young people, learning disabilities, and complex health needs, as well as a full driving licence, are essential.
Current role based In Southampton area working 22.5 hours per week.
- 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.
- 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.
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
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
BSc Nursing or RN in Child or Learning Disability Nursing and currently registered with NMC.
Practice assessor/supervisor
Teaching Qualification, e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
Experienced in developing patient care plans.
Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients.
Experience of MDT working
Experience of teaching, training, and supervision/assessing junior staff and students
Evidence of recent CPD
Clinically competent at Band 5 level
Excellent communication skills written and verbal
Ability to work autonomously prioritise workload, instruct and direct others work is managed rather than supervised
Problem solving skills.
Advocacy skills
Manual Handling skills
Dexterity required for intravenous and intramuscular injections, inserting catheters, setting up syringe drivers, removal of sutures, wound management.
Using judgement when evaluating patients condition/progress
Ability to work as part of a team and support development of others.
Ability to adapt to change within work situation.
There is a frequent requirement to manage unpleasant working conditions i.e. body fluids.
Understanding of the health needs of people in their care and health promotion
Understanding of a range of clinical approaches
Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
Knowledge of health promotion
Can work with children and vulnerable adults.
Ability to travel for meetings across a range of sites in Southampton Portsmouth Hampshire as required for role.
For posts where postholders are required to drive as part of their role they hold a valid full driving licence which enables them to drive in the UK
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
