Children's Community Respite Support Worker

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

The closing date is 07 February 2025

Job summary

Children's Community Respite Support Worker

Band 2: £23,615 per annum

Permanent, Full-Time Position (37.5 hours per week)

We are looking for a fun-loving, enthusiastic support worker to join our dedicated Children's Community Nursing Team, who care for children and their families in a range of community settings.

The successful applicant will be working as part of our Children's Community Nursing service and will be supporting the delivery of respite for children with life threatening and life limiting conditions, within the child's home, Children's Ward, Mountbatten Hospice and other community settings.

Applicants will ideally have experience with working with children with complex needs and/or some experience in providing personal care including manual handling, and must hold a valid driving licence.

You will have excellent communication abilities across a range of ages and abilities. Team player skills are essential in this role including the need to be flexible and adaptable as the working hours are based around the children we care for. The hours that we offer families fall between the hours of 8am-8pm Monday - Saturday and working patterns will reflect the service need.

The Children's Community Nursing Team is dedicated to support continuous professional development with systems in place for Clinical Supervision and annual appraisal for all staff.

For informal enquiries please contact Chelsea Steel or Paula Brooke on 01983 534690

Main duties of the job

Supporting Senior Respite Carers in the provision of respite care to patients within the community setting who have palliative or terminal care needs.

Assist the patient and nursery nurse to carry out all activities of daily living, with both direct and indirect supervision as agreed in the parent contracts for respite.

The post holder will need to work with children who have complex needs and end of life care needs within the community.

contribute to planning activities for children and trips out within the community.

To contribute to maintaining comprehensive, timely and legible records.

To communicate any concerns regarding patient care to the Team Leaders.

Maintain patient comfort, dignity and privacy at all times.

The post holder will need to work with children who have complex needs and end of life care needs.

Tasks will be delivered in the community setting.

About us

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is an integrated Acute and Ambulance health care provider. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.

Date posted

24 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£23,615 a year pro rata, per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

470-24-0087-PL

Job locations

St Marys Hospital

Parkhurst Road

Newport

PO30 5TG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

Good Basic Education
Basic IT Skills
Able to use initiative to cope in a variety of situations
Ability to maintain effectiveness under pressure
Able to work as part of a team

Desirable

NVQ Level 2 in Children's Care

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

Good Basic Education
Basic IT Skills
Able to use initiative to cope in a variety of situations
Ability to maintain effectiveness under pressure
Able to work as part of a team

Desirable

NVQ Level 2 in Children's Care

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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