Job summary
Would you like to make a difference to the community you live in and love?
Our teams support families to live independently and improve their quality of life in the place they like to call home.
As a Lifetime Support Worker, you'll play a vital role in our service. You will work closely Community Children's Nurses to provide ongoing clinical care to children in their own home and/or at school.
This exciting role is flexible and dynamic around family life providing an excellent work/life balance and you will have access to training and development if you wish to pursue a career in nursing, training, or management.
Successful candidates will have the support from their team to be comfortable working independently in the community. If you have strong verbal communication skills and can use initiative to ensure children and their families have the best experience, then we want to hear from you.
We will offer a tailored training package to suit your development needs to make sure you feel fully supported within your new role - should you wish to progress further in your career then Sirona can offer a number of opportunities such as apprenticeships, where we have strong links with local higher education partners.
We currently have vacancies in the following areas:
- Bristol
- North Somerset
- South Gloucestershire
- BANES
Main duties of the job
- Undertake a range of delegated clinical, therapy & nursing led activities to support the service users on the Integrated Network Team caseload.
- To provide a safe, patient centred and effective clinical activities in the community setting.
- You will work within adults services to deliver a full range of healthcare activities.
- You may be expected to work flexibly with other teams or services, both within the locality and Sirona wide when the need arises at short notice.
- Be able and willing to travel throughout the service delivery geographical area.
Enhanced pay for weekends and bank holidays, mileage is reimbursed whilst you carry out your duties at work. We also offer generous annual leave allowance and an attractive staff benefits scheme.
We have full and part time hours available and can support flexible working patterns.
About us
We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, it's about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care we would expect for ourselves and our families.
At Sirona, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of colleagues, people and communities. We welcome applications from all who feel they have the skills and attributes to make a real difference.
Benefits:
We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and the NHS pension scheme plus much more!Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for details.
We offer NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) salary including annual leave supplement, Stakeholder pension, a range of health and wellbeing incentives, high street discounts, plus much more!
Job description
Job responsibilities
The purpose of this role is to provide care to children with complex, life-limiting health care needs that rely on technology to sustain their health. This technology needs 24 hour supervision - if it fails intervention is required immediately to avoid a fatality. Therefore, parents of these children would never sleep without Lifetimes support. Parents need to be able to rest, Lifetime support workers work within the familys home, overnight taking over responsibility for the child whilst parents sleep.
As a member of the Lifetime service, you will support the registered nurses in the delivery of care to our service users in the community and contribute towards the safe and seamless delivery of holistic care, working safely within your scope of practice and competence at all times.
You will follow a range of important but simple clinical tasks to support each individual with personal care that will be set out in their care plans every child has their own individual needs so you will gain experience caring for a wide variety of health conditions and specialised equipment.
What our current Lifetime Support Workers have to say about their role
I am in awe of the children I care for and the families I support. I hope that my small part in their sometimes short lives has made a difference to their quality of life. They have certainly made a difference to mine. I feel privileged to have been accepted into their homes, its not just a job, I have been doing this for 8 years and wish I had found it years ago. - Lizzie
"I feel honoured to be a part of our special children's lives. Knowing that we make a huge difference to the parents so they get some much needed rest, safe in the knowledge that their child is being cared for is an enormous privilege." - Ally
I am new to Lifetime, and I can say that I have been welcomed and really well supported by a very friendly team. Even though I had relatively little nursing experience the training has been so thorough and I have learnt so much. The children we work with are amazing, and at the end of each shift I feel that I have made a small yet essential contribution to their health and well-being, and provided some much needed rest to their families. - Megan
Job description
Job responsibilities
The purpose of this role is to provide care to children with complex, life-limiting health care needs that rely on technology to sustain their health. This technology needs 24 hour supervision - if it fails intervention is required immediately to avoid a fatality. Therefore, parents of these children would never sleep without Lifetimes support. Parents need to be able to rest, Lifetime support workers work within the familys home, overnight taking over responsibility for the child whilst parents sleep.
As a member of the Lifetime service, you will support the registered nurses in the delivery of care to our service users in the community and contribute towards the safe and seamless delivery of holistic care, working safely within your scope of practice and competence at all times.
You will follow a range of important but simple clinical tasks to support each individual with personal care that will be set out in their care plans every child has their own individual needs so you will gain experience caring for a wide variety of health conditions and specialised equipment.
What our current Lifetime Support Workers have to say about their role
I am in awe of the children I care for and the families I support. I hope that my small part in their sometimes short lives has made a difference to their quality of life. They have certainly made a difference to mine. I feel privileged to have been accepted into their homes, its not just a job, I have been doing this for 8 years and wish I had found it years ago. - Lizzie
"I feel honoured to be a part of our special children's lives. Knowing that we make a huge difference to the parents so they get some much needed rest, safe in the knowledge that their child is being cared for is an enormous privilege." - Ally
I am new to Lifetime, and I can say that I have been welcomed and really well supported by a very friendly team. Even though I had relatively little nursing experience the training has been so thorough and I have learnt so much. The children we work with are amazing, and at the end of each shift I feel that I have made a small yet essential contribution to their health and well-being, and provided some much needed rest to their families. - Megan
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Numeracy/Literacy level 1 or equivalent
Desirable
- NVQ/QCF (or equivalent) in Health and/or Social care
- Full Driving Licence and Access to a vehicle
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Able to work without direct supervision, as agreed within the team, to achieve the objectives of the post.
- Able to prioritise tasks and make correct decisions within a set of clear guidelines.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to use tact and persuasive skills where necessary.
- Experience of direct patient care in a health or social care setting.
- Ability to practice in a non-discriminatory way when approaching all colleagues and service users.
- Experience of team working and an understanding of team dynamics including what factors make a team work well and what can go wrong and why.
- Able to use a variety of IT systems e.g. email, EMIS.
- Awareness of own limitations and respect professional boundaries
Desirable
- Experience of working with children with complex health needs
- Evidence of providing care in a health or community setting
- Awareness of providing care in a family home environment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Numeracy/Literacy level 1 or equivalent
Desirable
- NVQ/QCF (or equivalent) in Health and/or Social care
- Full Driving Licence and Access to a vehicle
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Able to work without direct supervision, as agreed within the team, to achieve the objectives of the post.
- Able to prioritise tasks and make correct decisions within a set of clear guidelines.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to use tact and persuasive skills where necessary.
- Experience of direct patient care in a health or social care setting.
- Ability to practice in a non-discriminatory way when approaching all colleagues and service users.
- Experience of team working and an understanding of team dynamics including what factors make a team work well and what can go wrong and why.
- Able to use a variety of IT systems e.g. email, EMIS.
- Awareness of own limitations and respect professional boundaries
Desirable
- Experience of working with children with complex health needs
- Evidence of providing care in a health or community setting
- Awareness of providing care in a family home environment
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
