Lead school nurse

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1. Communication and relationship skills

• Communicate complex information concisely to teams
• Communicate sensitive client/organisational/staff information to other healthcare professionals
• Provide and receive complex and sensitive information in a variety of formats overcoming barriers to understanding using discretion and tact
• To develop and deliver training sessions and relate theory to practice
• To ensure effective communication between students, university and managers.
• Provide support to the Clinical Lead, keeping them informed regularly on team developments and significant issues

2. Knowledge, training and experience

• Registered Nurse
• Educated to degree level or equivalent; master’s level desirable
• Diploma/Degree SCPHN – School Nursing
• Nurse prescribing qualification
• Mentorship
• Broad base of clinical experience with highly developed specialist knowledge acquired through experience and specialist training
• Experience of clinical audit/ quality improvement initiatives
• Knowledge of new interventions and developments
• Working knowledge of principles of clinical governance and their application
• To deliver training to staff on specialist subject.
• To act as a resource within School Health sharing best practice and acting as a clinical role model within the team by demonstrating high levels of clinical practice.
• To ensure statutory and mandatory training is kept up to date

3. Analytical and judgement skills

• Provide clinical expertise and knowledge
• Assessment of clients on specialist caseload
• Analyse audit findings and prepare detailed recommendations and action plans

4. Planning and organisational skills

• Plan, evaluate and participate in the audit and standards of care
• Plan and Prioritise own workload
• Planning and organisation of training programmes

5. Physical skills

• Keyboard skills
• Ability to travel to diverse sites in a timely manner to undertake home visits, attend meetings etc

6. Responsibility for client care

• Assess client’s health and well-being needs
• Plan, deliver and evaluate specialised health care programmes to meet clients’ needs; provide clinical leadership and professional guidance to the staff within Children’s Services
• Provide advice through training, education and interventions
• Safeguard the client group by adhering to child/adult guidelines and procedures. Key participant in adult/child protection proceedings when appropriate
• To act as a public health resource and be responsible for developing, organising, implementing and evaluating specialist public health programmes
• To ensure evidence-based health education and promotion to clients
• To ensure close collaboration with other agencies to enable robust pathway planning and service delivery in line with the client’s needs.

7. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation

• Participate in clinical audit and monitoring of the service
• To assist and support the continual review, development and improvement of children’s services
• To record and submit clinical activity and information as requested
• Participate in the development, implementation and review of service development plans and policies
• Comment on policy and protocol development
• To participate in clinical incident reporting and facilitate changes to reduce risk
• Lead projects as agreed with the Clinical Lead, in line with national strategies, and personal skills and interest.

8. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

• Responsible for use of equipment and facilities

9. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)

• Assist in educating, supporting and reviewing team members
• To assist with orientation programmes which familiarise new members of staff to the team
• Provides Specialist training programmes
• Support team members in assessing student and junior staff competencies
• Line management responsibility as agreed with the Clinical Lead.

10. Responsibilities for information resources

• Ensure all records are updated and safeguard client’s confidentiality within legal and ethical principles (Caldicott) and Medway Community Healthcare data protection policies
• Record and submit accurate and timely data as required to inform service planning, community profiling and aid local development plans

11. Responsibilities for research and development (R&D)

• Actively participate in clinical audit and clinical governance activities leads clinical audits in specialist field
• Understanding the principles of research and the ability to pro-actively apply these to practice

12. Freedom to act

• Guided by established policies and guidelines
• Professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work
• Works independently as an autonomous practitioner
• Participate in new ideas and ways of working to support innovation, efficiencies and quality improvements as part of the leadership team.