Main area: Child Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract: Fixed term: 9 months (temporary post for 9 months to cover maternity leave)
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week with flexible working options
Job ref: 319-6939208KD
Employer: Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Child Health Centre
Town: Ashington
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59
Child Health Carer
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients. You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost-effective living, great nightlife, and some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. This is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare.
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, community venues, and people’s homes.
Job overview
Band 4 Child Health Carer:
Child Health Carers have a unique role working with some of the most vulnerable children, those with disabilities, chronic illness, palliative care, or complex health care needs. The Child Health Carer is trained to support families by taking over the care of the child for an extended period allowing the families respite from that care.
This support is offered in a variety of community locations, including home, education, or short break care facility, to suit the assessed needs of each individual child.
This post exposes the Child Health Carers to unpredictable, highly distressing or emotional situations.
Main duties of the job
1. To implement care for children aged 0 to 18 years, in the community in Northumberland and North Tyneside, following assessment by and under the direction of a Registered Children's Nurse.
2. To provide skilled support to children with palliative and complex care needs, and their families, in their own home or other community facility.
3. To work as an integral part of a multidisciplinary team undertaking therapies and interventions as directed by others.
4. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership to shape a collective leadership culture within the trust.
The applicant must have a full and valid UK driver's licence and access to their own car.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals and provide services from facilities in local communities. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Provide and receive routine information requiring tact or persuasive skills.
2. Good communication skills verbal, non-verbal and written.
3. Ability to communicate with children and young people at an appropriate level of their understanding.
4. Required to communicate sensitive information regarding the children to their parents or carers.
5. Requires a caring, empathetic manner towards children with palliative and complex care needs.
6. Interpersonal skills required to work effectively as part of an extensive multidisciplinary multi-agency team.
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
* NNEB or equivalent qualification or experience
* Experience of working with children with a wide range of needs
* Diploma or equivalent appropriate qualification
Experience and knowledge
* Previous experience working in a caring capacity
* Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
* Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
* Experience of community working
Other requirements
* It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner or has a Trust personal lease vehicle.
We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible.
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