Senior Special School NurseNHS

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced nurse with strong leadership skills to deliver high-quality care for children and young people with complex health needs. You will lead clinical practice, manage caseloads, and support colleagues and school staff while making a real difference every day.

You will develop expertise in epilepsy and seizure management, enteral feeding, medicines management, clinical assessment, and respiratory care, while building skills in safeguarding, service improvement, and multidisciplinary working. As a senior nurse, you will supervise junior colleagues, delegate effectively, and promote safe, high-quality care.

Our team supports nine special schools across Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton, and the Isle of Wight. We offer a structured rotational induction, leadership development, blended learning, regular supervision, and opportunities to mentor staff, deliver training, and lead service improvements. You can also develop specialist interests through link nurse roles and access CPD funding.

Applicants must hold UK nursing registration and have experience working with children and young people with learning disabilities and complex health needs. A full UK driving licence is essential.

If you are looking for a rewarding leadership role where you can grow professionally and make a lasting impact, we would love to hear from you.

Location: Henry Tyndale School Nursing Team, Farnborough.

Main duties of the job

The Senior Special School Nurse SSSN will work as part of the special school nursing team in a multiagency and multidisciplinary environment.

You should have knowledge and experience of clinical skills including but not limited to epilepsy and seizure management enteral feeding medications management including CDs clinical assessments suction and oxygen administration

Your main duties will include managing the caseload and delegating tasks line management of SSN and HCSW planning and delivering training to school staff and peers referrals to other agencies safeguarding and multidisciplinary meeting attendance delegation responsible for escalation of concerns or issues liaison with school leaders and service line management.

Your clinical management oversight will include complex care planning medications management trouble shooting clinical equipment clinical observations and PEWS.

You will support the Special School Nurses and HCSW to deliver training to school staff ensure competency of your SSN team and ensure training and quality compliance within Trust requirements.

You will be responsible for maintaining your own training CPD and competency.

Job description

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.

About us

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