Job Introduction
Are you compassionate, dedicated, and looking to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children with complex medical needs?
Join our Specialist School Nursing Team as an Assistant Practitioner and play a vital role in supporting the health and wellbeing of children and young people (aged 11–19) with complex learning and physical disabilities.
Based in a specialist school setting, this role includes both hands-on support and a significant administrative function—helping to coordinate care, clinics, and communication across the service, including outreach to satellite schools.
This position is based in Clifton Hill School, Caterham.
Main Responsibility
- Maintain effective communication with children/young people, families, school staff, and the multidisciplinary team.
- Report condition changes and escalate issues beyond role scope.
- Assess care needs per individual care plans and identify risks of harm.
- Safely use care equipment (e.g., hoists, wheelchairs) per policy and training.
- Maintain stock levels, records, and ensure timely servicing of medical equipment.
- Administer medication (excluding injections, except epipens) and undertake complex clinical tasks following training.
- Provide care for children with complex needs (e.g., tracheostomy, enteral feeding, catheter care).
- Liaise with families and team to review care plans.
- Support continence programmes and manage key children/young people.
- Accurately document care activities and communicate via electronic and telephone systems.
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
Minimum of 4 GCSEs (or equivalent) and NVQ Level 2+ in Care or Childcare
Experience working with children in health, education, social care, or voluntary settings
Strong team player with the ability to work independently and accept delegated tasks
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Basic IT and keyboarding skills
Organised, reliable, and able to meet deadlines
Approachable, self-motivated, and sensitive to individual family needs
Willingness to travel for training and undertake further development
Understanding of confidentiality and safeguarding
Desirable
Care Certificate
Experience with children with learning disabilities, Autism, or complex health needs (e.g. tracheostomy, enteral feeding, epilepsy)
Comfortable liaising with a range of professionals and agencies
Awareness of personal development needs and commitment to ongoing learning
Other requirements: the successful applicant will need to be a car driver
Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.
Package Description
As an Assistant Practitioner in our Specialist School Nursing Team, we value you and your wellbeing, offering a range of benefits to help you feel supported and appreciated:
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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