School Nurse / Senior Health and Wellbeing Nurse


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£39,959 to £48,117 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Rochester, ME1 3YB
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	22 Sept 2026
Closing date:	6 Oct 2026

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Summary

Please see attached JD&PS for full details of duties and responsibilities. To be a confident, autonomous practitioner who takes responsibility for the care they give to children but also take responsibility for overseeing the work of others in the team To plan, deliver and evaluate interventions for treatment as clinically appropriate using evidence-based models. Co-ordinating multi-disciplinary clinical practice to provide focused and integrated care and treatment programmes/packages. To ensure processes/protocols are in place and followed for effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for those children with physical, mental health and substance misuse problems. To respond to and manage medical emergencies on site, ensuring that immediate, safe, and effective care is provided to children in line with clinical guidelines and safeguarding standards. To take clinical leadership during emergency situations, coordinating the healthcare response, and ensuring timely escalation to and liaison with external emergency services where required. The Post holder will be expected to maintain oversight of post-incident documentation, communication, and follow-up care to ensure continuity, learning, and adherence to governance processes. To safeguard vulnerable patients in line with Trust and Oasis Restore safeguarding children policy, and support other team members with safeguarding concerns. Demonstrating clinical leadership and challenging any poor behaviour to children, families or other staff members and creating a positive, inclusive culture in which everyone is treated with kindness and respect and the trusts values are embedded in all practice To provide support to Oasis Restore school staff, parents/carers and children pertaining to the control of infectious diseases and conditions and give advice on the appropriate preventative measures. To promote an awareness of the public health role of the school nurse, in both mental health and physical health, and act as a resource to children, parents/carers, educational staff, other professionals and the wider community to facilitate optimum uptake of the service. To contribute towards curriculum planning and implementation of health promotion programmes, working in partnerships with education colleagues, partner organisations and health colleagues to deliver PHSE on site. Take a lead role in gathering and recording evidence which demonstrates that CQC and locally agreed standards are being met: assessing the performance of the whole team by using audit and benchmarking exercises and often contribute to the implementation of quality improvement initiatives Contributing to the performance management of teams and creating a positive culture in which the team can learn from mistakes and is enthusiastic to improve Deputising for the team leader and ensuring that there is no fall in performance in their absence. This may include managing the team and coordinating shifts. Provide supervision and annual appraisals to individuals and giving constructive, regular feedback which helps those individuals reflect on their work, understand their objectives and the CQC standards and monitor their progress towards achieving them

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