Children's Community Support Worker - Higher Level
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Job summary
We are recruiting for a Children's Community Support Worker - Higher Level who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Children's Continuing Care Team provides specialised, child specific respite service to children and their families with complex health needs/profound disabilities in the child's own home throughout East & North Hertfordshire.
Clinical Support Workers will be responsible for independently delivering specialist nursing care within the family home without direct supervision.
All necessary training will be given with ongoing facilitation from qualified nurses.
Please review the attached 'week in the life' document which will give you an insight into the role of a Children's Community Support Worker.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
You will undertake all necessary training in order to provide nursing care to children with complex health needs within the family home in an unsupervised capacity.
Undertaking such skills as enteral feeding, c/o tracheostomies, c/o children who are long term ventilated, seizure management, oxygen administration.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire 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 understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
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.
Details
Date posted
05 June 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£22,816 to £24,336 a year per annum plus 5% High Cost Area Supplement
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
361-W&C-6041644-B
Job locations
QEII Hospital
Howlands
Welwyn Garden City
AL7 4HQ
Employer details
Employer name
East and North Herts NHS Trust
Address
QEII Hospital
Howlands
Welwyn Garden City
AL7 4HQ
Employer's website
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Employer contact details
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