Job summaryWe are recruiting for a SEND Schools Nurse Team Leader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
This is an exciting opportunity for a compassionate, highly motivated, and forward-thinking nurse with experience in working with children with special education needs and disability.
We provide health care support for children and young people with medical needs across our four Special Schools within East & North Hertfordshire. This role is to cover the team leader role at Lonsdale School, Stevenage for 3 days a week and Greenside School, Stevenage for 1 day a week, term time only.
We are a flexible and supportive team and will consider a full time/non term time position and school working hours. The post will involve working across the four special schools within East & North Hertfordshire.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the jobThe successful candidate will be working collaboratively with children, families, carers, school staff and the wider multi-disciplinary team within the education setting to ensure a supportive and caring learning environment.
You will be responsible for co-ordinating & leading the nursing team at an allocated school site and provide support to the wider special school nursing team.
You will be passionate about providing compassionate care in a school setting, have excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
You will be responsible for providing advice and support to families and education staff and providing training and competency assessments to education staff.
The role will include teaching/training and supporting the school team in meeting and maintaining the health needs of the children and young people attending school.
This role requires you to be flexible in a constantly changing environment and to respond to emergency needs as they arise.
About usAt East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
DetailsDate posted: 09 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum-pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Term time hours, Annualised hours
Reference number: 361-W&C-8249716
Job locations: Lakeside School, Lemsford lane, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6YN, United Kingdom
Job responsibilitiesPlease see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person SpecificationQualifications / TrainingEssential- RN Child/RSCN/ LD with specific CYP experience
- Mentor Preparation
- Degree in Nursing or equivalent experience
Desirable- Management and leadership qualification
Previous ExperienceEssential- Experience of staff leadership
- Evidence of professional development
- Experienced Clinical Nurse
- Experience of working with children and young people with special needs
- Experience of teaching others
- Ability to work well in stressful situations
Desirable- Experience of staff leadership in a community setting
SkillsEssential- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Board range of clinical skills
- Leadership skills
- Ability to organize the workload, able to delegate and prioritize.
- Computer literate
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Teaching skills
Desirable- Ability to lead and manage a team
- Good knowledge of health and safety and risk management
KnowledgeEssential- In depth knowledge of the care of CYP with complex needs
- Good understanding of CYP issues
- Good understanding of community health services
- Good understanding of current nursing workforce issues
- Understanding of current NHS & professional nursing issues
- Understanding of child protection procedures
DesirableOther RequirementsEssential- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Ability to travel between sites
- Ability to work well in stressful situations.
- Innovative
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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.
UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer detailsEmployer name: East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address: Lakeside School, Lemsford lane, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6YN, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/
Employer contact detailsFor questions about the job, contact: Nurse Team Manager, Becca Marsh, rebecca.marsh4@nhs.net, 07721838214
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.Applicants must have current UK professional registration. 
