Job summary
Due to the expansion of the Special Needs School Nursing Team, we are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our friendly and supportive team as a Senior School Nurse within Children's Complex Needs Nursing Service in Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust.

You will be a highly motivated and enthusiastic children's nurse with experience of providing clinical care, management and intervention to children/young people with complex and additional needs. You will be driven to expand your knowledge and skills of working with children/young people within the special needs school setting.

You will play a key role in ensuring children/young peoples health needs are met in educational settings. As a Senior School Nurse you will act as a named nurse for designated school(s) across the Central and West Lancashire area however as part of the role there may be the requirement at times to work across the LSCFT special needs school footprint. The Senior School Nurse imparts specialist knowledge and advice across a range of health and social care issues, utilising evidence-based research and will have experience of completing health assessment for children/young people.

Main duties of the job
As part of the role, you will manage a safeguarding caseload, acting as a key health professional for vulnerable children instigating safeguarding procedures as required, attending child protection / child in need meetings and complete report writing associate with this.

You will work across the special needs school nursing team, providing line management and supervision of band 5 school nurses and band 3 health care support workers.

Working alongside the team leader, you will assume a leadership role, identify, develop and review the Special Needs School Nursing service and make key contributions to service and process development.

It is essential that you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to work in partnership with the children/young people, their parents/carers, teachers and other health care professionals, offering support and advice to education staff on health-related issues that affect the children within the school setting.

It is essential that you can work flexibly to meet the needs of the service. You will need to be able to travel between schools/health care bases.

About us
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well

Details
Date posted: 06 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 351-CEN2627-LW
Job locations: Ashton Health Centre, Preston, PR2 1HR, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered nurse qualification/RSCN
• Current Professional Registration with NMC
• Evidence of continued professional development

Knowledge
Essential

• Knowledge and experience of working with children and young people with complex health and additional needs.
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance framework & implications for practice, including audit and research governance

Experience
Essential

• Registered padeiatric nurse with mimum of 2 years clinical expereince
• Expereince of improving and developing service in practice
• Experience of clinical delivering supervision and/or line managing.

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.

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

Employer details
Employer name: Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Ashton Health Centre, Preston, PR2 1HR, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Team Leader, Philippa Vipham, complexneedsadmin@lscft.nhs.uk, 01282628422

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