Children's Support Worker (Band 3)

Job summary

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.

The Lifetime Service provides community nursing and psychology support for children that have complex health care needs, life limiting conditions and/or are technology dependent. The care you will provide is alongside their family in their own home. The health care support worker provides holistic care in the child’s home at night to provide respite that enables parents to sleep knowing their child is taken care of. Some shifts are during the day to enable their children to attend school/nursery.

In many cases you could be the only source of support and rest parents will get from caring for their critically ill child and being the person, they get to know and rely on as part of the family. Many of our workers have worked with their families for a long time.

Providing the stability and dedication required to support these families and their children can provide incredible job satisfaction – you are a lifeline to these families and greatly appreciated.

Comprehensive training and support will be provided until you are fully competent to carry out your role independently. The Lifetime Support Worker will provide holistic, person-centred care and support for Children within their home.

Main duties of the job

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 hours supervision - if it fails intervention is required immediately to avoid a fatality. Therefore, parents of these children would never sleep without our support. Parents need to be able to rest, our Lifetime support workers work within the family’s 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 tasks to support each individual with personal care and with other practical and therapeutic support that will be set out in their care plans – every child has their own specific care needs so you will gain experience caring for a wide variety of health needs and specialised equipment.

About us

We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist health care services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, its about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care that 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, service users and communities. We therefore welcome applications from all those who feel they have the skills and attributes we are seeking.

Benefits:

We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and an NHS pension scheme plus much more! Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for more details.

Additional Information:

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received prior to the advertised closing date.

Employer details

Employer name

Sirona care & health CIC

Address

North Somerset (Weston)

North Somerset

BS23 3NT

Employer's website

https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Sirona care & health CIC

Address

North Somerset (Weston)

North Somerset

BS23 3NT

Employer's website

https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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