Job summary
Are you an experienced and compassionate carer ready to take the next step in your career?
Join HCRG Care Group as aSenior Community Carer,where you will play a key role in delivering safe, high quality care to children with complex medical needs in their own homes and within the community. This is a rewarding opportunity to use your skills, support families, and help children live safely, comfortably and confidently in familiar surroundings.
In this senior role, you will bring your knowledge and experience to guide and mentor colleagues, support service development, and work closely with families and multidisciplinary teams to ensure every childs care is personalised and effective.
If you are passionate about making a meaningful impact and ready for a role with responsibility, purpose, and progression, we would love to hear from you.
See what a rewarding career as a Community Carer looks like:CCCT VID 2 - YouTube
Main duties of the job
- Deliver consistent, highquality care to children and young people with complex health needs, following care plans and safeguarding procedures.
- Communicate clearly and compassionately with children, families, and multidisciplinary colleagues, adjusting your approach where communication barriers exist.
- Maintain professional boundaries and promptly escalate concerns or changes in a childs condition to the Clinical Case Manager.
- Ensure the availability and safe use of clinical equipment, including ventilators, feeding pumps, oxygen monitors, and other medical devices.
- Develop and maintain advanced clinical competencies in tracheostomy care, ventilation, gastrostomy care, and other complex procedures.
- Administer medication safely and accurately, ensuring all care is appropriately recorded.
- Work independently as a lone worker, managing and prioritising your workload while seeking guidance where required.
- Provide mentorship, support, and informal training to colleagues to help maintain a high standard of care across the service.
Schedule
This is a24/7 service, which includes night shifts and weekend rotations throughout the year.
Please refer to the attached Job Description for the full list of duties.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Senior Community Carer we value you and your wellbeing, offering a range of benefits to help you feel supported and appreciated:
- Starting salary of £26,712 plus Group Pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you are encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
Ideal Candidate
Essential
- NVQ Level 3 in Health or Social Care, or a recognised Nursery Nurse qualification.
- Understanding of the impact of providing care for children with complex medical needs in their homes.
- Experience working with children with additional or complex needs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to build rapport and connect with children and families.
Desirable
- Willingness and ability to develop new theoretical and practical skills.
- British Sign Language Level 1 or Makaton.
- Experience supporting technology dependent children or carrying out relevant clinical procedures.
- Minimum 1 years experience supporting children with complex health needs.
- Minimum 1 years experience working with children in another setting (e.g., nursery, respite care, community service).
Other Requirements
A full driving licence and access to a car for work purposes are essential.
Please see the full Person Specification in the attached Job Description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Senior Community Carer we value you and your wellbeing, offering a range of benefits to help you feel supported and appreciated:
- Starting salary of £26,712 plus Group Pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you are encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
Ideal Candidate
Essential
- NVQ Level 3 in Health or Social Care, or a recognised Nursery Nurse qualification.
- Understanding of the impact of providing care for children with complex medical needs in their homes.
- Experience working with children with additional or complex needs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to build rapport and connect with children and families.
Desirable
- Willingness and ability to develop new theoretical and practical skills.
- British Sign Language Level 1 or Makaton.
- Experience supporting technology dependent children or carrying out relevant clinical procedures.
- Minimum 1 years experience supporting children with complex health needs.
- Minimum 1 years experience working with children in another setting (e.g., nursery, respite care, community service).
Other Requirements
A full driving licence and access to a car for work purposes are essential.
Please see the full Person Specification in the attached Job Description.
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
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.
.jpg){kind=logo}
