About the role
Salary: £25760.00 to £27476.00
The Community Childrens Nurses provide care to Children with Long Term and Life Limiting Conditions from birth to 18 years of age. We are looking for an individual to work across our Long Term Conditions Team and Home Respite Team. The Home Respite Team is a county wide service consisting of healthcare support workers who provide short sessional support for children with on-going health needs within their own home and community settings. The Care Support Workers work closely with the trained staff to meet the needs of the children and their families and provide family Centered Holistic Care. When not delivering respite the post holders will be running small clinics for children requiring overnight saturations recordings, managing the essential equipment and supplies used by the nursing teams and families and supporting the trained nurses in meeting the needs of the children. The post holder will be lone working and must have access to a vehicle for work use.
As a healthcare support worker within the Respite Team the post holder will be working alongside the Community Childrens Nurses who will assess children and plan their care prior to the Support worker offering sessions, the role requires you work alongside children with varying conditions and health needs, to support families in caring for their child and supporting the wellbeing of the child and extended family.
You will be delivering play support and personal care including Nasogastric Feeding, Gastrostomy feeding and Oxygen therapy. Full training will be given.