Special School Nurse

Job summary
As a Special School Nurse (Band 5), you'll be part of a dedicated team supporting children and young people with special needs in schools. Your work will focus on promoting health and well-being, collaborating with families, school staff, and multidisciplinary professionals to ensure every child receives holistic care and can reach their full potential. You'll contribute to safeguarding, infection control, and quality improvement, and help shape care plans and service delivery in a compassionate, patient-centered environment.

You will be a RN (Child) or we also invite applications from RN (Learning Disability) candidates who have had previous experience with children with complex health needs.

This role is part of an integrated special school nursing team across Shropshire and Telford and there may be times when staff need to work flexibly across our school sites.

Hours worked 08:30 - 16:30 Monday to Friday with some flexibility to support after school visits as and when required. Annual leave is be taken during the school holidays to ensure schools are covered during term time.

As a wider integrated community children's nursing team we provide 24 hour end of life care, and support any staff who wish to participate in this on-call roster.

Main duties of the job

• To have responsibility for a delegated workload as agreed with the Team Leader and senior nurse
• To work in partnership and demonstrate excellence in communication with School staff, professional teams, parents, carers and children.
• To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for children & young people in school as appropriate to their individual needs under supervision of a senior nurse.
• To provide training and supervision to support workers in the school environment delivering care to Children ensuring delegated nursing tasks are safely and effectively undertaken.

About us
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Details
Date posted: 06 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 24 months
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 825-8157664-OPS
Job locations: The Bridge School, Waterloo Road, Telford, TF1 5NQ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and personal specification.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential

• First level registration - RN child/RSCN
• Evidence of consolidation experience post registration

Experience
Essential

• Demonstrate relevant and recent post registration experience working within an environment supporting children and young people with both complex/acute health needs.

Knowledge and Skills
Essential

• Evidence of continuing post registration education/training
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of liaison with multi-disciplinary team working
• Ongoing awareness of recent developments in practice and research including local and national guidelines. Understanding of clinical governance and risk management and their implications for the service.
• Competent in the use of IT

Other
Essential

• Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the post.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.