Home Support Workers - Night Care

Job summary

We currently have vacancies for new night care packages across Worcestershire, full training and support will be provided.

As a Home Support Worker you will be delivering care to children or young people within the home environment. This involves being trained to competently deliver specialist care procedures, e.g. tracheostomy care, home ventilation, enteral feeding dependant on individual needs.

We have various night hours available (minimum of 20 hours per week), to work flexibly over 7 days per week.

Do you have experience working with children with additional or complex health needs? Are you dedicated to providing help, care, and support to those who most need it?

We are looking for committed people to work within our dedicated Home Support Team who provide essential complex health care to children, young people, and their families.

This is an opportunity to really make a difference to the lives of children, young people and their family by providing clinical care within the home setting. This is predominantly night working (various hours) with flexibility to work day hours for training.

By joining our team, you will be providing valuable opportunity for a child, young person, and family to meet their full potential and achieve their chosen life outcomes. View a short video of Jacob attached.

If you would like to discuss informally if this is the right role for you, get in touch, details can be found on the top right-hand side of the advert.

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team involved in the assessment and care of children with complex nursing needs. View a short video of Polly attached.

You will communicate at an appropriate level for individual children, young people and their carers.

Undertake nursing duties, as agreed with the Orchard Service who are responsible for the child/ young person. This may include ventilation, tracheostomy, enteral feeding etc.

Receive training to understand individual plans of care to ensure appropriate action is taken in the event of a change in condition or problem occurring.

Assist with the personal care and comfort of the child and to maintain the child`s dignity and privacy at all times. Assist in maintaining a safe environment for the child, family/carers and staff, including safe use of equipment.

Join our team, we pride ourselves in providing outstanding care to patients across Worcestershire. We will provide you with resources to develop and progress a long term career as well as flexibility, continual professional development as well as a wide range of wellbeing and support.

About us

We are community hospitals, neighbourhood teams and community health services across Worcestershire and the provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire. We work in partnership with other organisations to keep our community well at home for as long as possible.

We provide services for people of all ages, across a range of settings, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions.

We have an open and supportive culture, recognised by the CQC and other external regulators. We want you to thrive, offering you every opportunity to develop. We will support you; help you fulfil your ambitions with a varied and flexible training programme; and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We endeavour to offer an attractive work-life balance, with flexibility in our approach to help you get the most out of your career.

We provide our staff with direct access to a wealth of resources to support their wellbeing, from our Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub, to wellbeing festivals or access to free online exercise classes.

At the core of our values, we are committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights. We take every opportunity to strengthen our approach to equality and diversity in delivering best patient care and the employment of our staff.

We would encourage you to visit the Trusts Recruitment Microsite, click the Employer Website link.

Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Princess of Wales Community Hospital

Stourbridge Road

Bromsgrove

B61 0BB

Employer's website

https://careers.hacw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Princess of Wales Community Hospital

Stourbridge Road

Bromsgrove

B61 0BB

Employer's website

https://careers.hacw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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