Children's Health Care Support Worker

Job summary

You will have an NVQ3 in care or equivalent care experience. You will be able to relate to children, have good organisational skills and be able to work independently accessing supervision as required. You will be calm in a crisis, quick to learn and happy to work rotational shift patterns. It is essential that you are able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service. The service provides support to families over a 24 hour period, 7 days per week, and 52 weeks a year. You will need to be able to work week days, weekends, evenings, nights and bank holidays. All of the children require support overnight therefore shifts will be predominantly night shifts: however some children do require support during the day.

Due to this post's requirements to support female patients with carrying out their personal cares, applicants must be female. This role is compliant with the Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, Work: Exceptions, Part 1, Occupational requirements).

Post: Children's Health Care Support Worker

Band: 3 as per Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions

Hours: Full and Part Time hours available - Shifts working including night duty and bank holidays, throughout the year

Contract: Permanent

Base: Ashton Health Centre, Preston (but working throughout the Lancashire foot print)

Main duties of the job

We offer you the opportunity to join our specialist team, providing care and support to children and young people living within Lancashire who have complex health care needs (some of whom are technology dependant) and need your help to live life to the full in their own homes, school and in other community settings. The children we support have varied medical needs including oxygen therapy, tracheostomies and ventilation support. You will be trained to provide care to individual children in their own home and in other community settings and will be supported by a dedicated team of registered nurses.

You will benefit from excellent management and peer support, competency based training, a personal and professional development plan and flexible working arrangements. Experience of working with children, particularly those with special needs would be advantageous.

You will be a car driver/owner with access to a vehicle for work purposes or be able to travel between community visits in a timely manner, which may be anywhere within Lancashire LSCFT's footprint.

For further information about the posts please contact:

One of the nursing team or team operational manager- Telephone 01282628362 or CPOCadmin@lscft.nhs.uk

Successful candidates are required to provide an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau disclosure

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ashton Health Centre

Preston

PR2 1HR

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ashton Health Centre

Preston

PR2 1HR

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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