Senior Special School Nurse - Band 6
Location
Lincoln, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At4/20/2026
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Description
Are you a qualified children's nurse with a passion for caring for children and young people with complex medical needs and disabilities? Are you looking for a challenging career where you have the opportunity to champion these children to reach their potential, and to support the nursing team in doing so? If so, then this may be the post for you.
We have a rare and exciting job opportunity for a compassionate nurse to join our special school nursing team based at St Francis School.
St Francis School caters for 174 students between the ages of 2.5 - 19 years with a wide range of complex medical needs, special educational needs, communication difficulties and severe / profound learning difficulties.
This nursing team forms part of the children's community services and is an integral part of the education team at St Francis school, working closely with teachers, teaching assistants and other visiting professionals involved in the child's care.
The team consists of special school nurses with the support of a senior school nurse (this post) and the team manager. The nursing service provided is 08:00 - 16:00 and runs Monday - Friday term time only.
Applicants must be an NMC registered nurse (child) with experience in working with children and young people with medical complexities, long-term health conditions and disabilities. Recent experience of working in a school setting would be highly advantageous as would evidence of teaching and assessing in clinical practice.
To provide leadership and operational management for a team of nurses within an educational establishment, whilst maintaining effective communication within the multidisciplinary environment.
To work in partnership with the child / young person and their family, in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, to promote high quality safe nursing care for children / young people with medical complexities attending school.
To undertake a holistic nursing assessment and formulate a plan of care for each child / young person and provide a plan of care for those staff who have direct contact.
To respond to medical emergencies and offer support and advice to the child / young person, their carers and to colleagues involved.
Part of this role includes providing training and clinical competency assessments to teaching assistants who provide direct care to the children / young people in school.
To support the team manager in ensur
We have a rare and exciting job opportunity for a compassionate nurse to join our special school nursing team based at St Francis School.
St Francis School caters for 174 students between the ages of 2.5 - 19 years with a wide range of complex medical needs, special educational needs, communication difficulties and severe / profound learning difficulties.
This nursing team forms part of the children's community services and is an integral part of the education team at St Francis school, working closely with teachers, teaching assistants and other visiting professionals involved in the child's care.
The team consists of special school nurses with the support of a senior school nurse (this post) and the team manager. The nursing service provided is 08:00 - 16:00 and runs Monday - Friday term time only.
Applicants must be an NMC registered nurse (child) with experience in working with children and young people with medical complexities, long-term health conditions and disabilities. Recent experience of working in a school setting would be highly advantageous as would evidence of teaching and assessing in clinical practice.
To provide leadership and operational management for a team of nurses within an educational establishment, whilst maintaining effective communication within the multidisciplinary environment.
To work in partnership with the child / young person and their family, in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, to promote high quality safe nursing care for children / young people with medical complexities attending school.
To undertake a holistic nursing assessment and formulate a plan of care for each child / young person and provide a plan of care for those staff who have direct contact.
To respond to medical emergencies and offer support and advice to the child / young person, their carers and to colleagues involved.
Part of this role includes providing training and clinical competency assessments to teaching assistants who provide direct care to the children / young people in school.
To support the team manager in ensur
ing that safe standards of medicine administration is adhered to in school.
To support the team manager in ensuring that high standards of record keeping are maintained, incidents are reported in a timely manner and colleagues are supported with 1:1 meetings and are up to date with in-service training, including safeguarding.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £899 million (2024/5) and employ over 10,000 people.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Julie Smith Job title: Team Manager Email address: julie.smith374@nhs.net Telephone number: 07523 689991
Deborah Flatman,
Matron for Children's Community Services, Trust-wide
d.flatman@nhs.net
07879 491732
It is strongly recommended that interested applicants contact Julie Smith to arrange an informal visit.
To support the team manager in ensuring that high standards of record keeping are maintained, incidents are reported in a timely manner and colleagues are supported with 1:1 meetings and are up to date with in-service training, including safeguarding.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £899 million (2024/5) and employ over 10,000 people.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Julie Smith Job title: Team Manager Email address: julie.smith374@nhs.net Telephone number: 07523 689991
Deborah Flatman,
Matron for Children's Community Services, Trust-wide
d.flatman@nhs.net
07879 491732
It is strongly recommended that interested applicants contact Julie Smith to arrange an informal visit.