Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Healthcare Support Worker to join our friendly and experienced Special School Nursing Team. We provide specialist support to nine Special Schools across Southampton, Hampshire, IOW and Portsmouth and we are looking to recruit a Healthcare Support Worker to work primarily in Henry Tyndale School, Farnborough.
The schools we work with provide education to children and young people who have Special Educational Needs and complex health conditions. We work collaboratively with children, families, school staff and the wider multi-disciplinary team within the education setting to ensure a supportive and caring learning environment. The role will include teaching and training of school staff, supervision of delegated skills including children and young people with a range of complex care, epilepsy and seizure management, enteral feeding, and tracheostomy.
The candidate must have recent experience of working with children and people with learning disabilities.
If our Health Care Support Worker role appeals to you and you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to work as a team player, as well as the initiative to work autonomously, we would like to hear from you. We welcome you to contact us prior to interview to discuss this post further.
Main duties of the job
1. On a daily basis assist qualified staff in the provision of care as detailed in the individual care plans, undertake tasks that facilitate the smooth running of the ward /community as directed by qualified staff
2. Develop rapport with patients and treat all patients, carers and staff with dignity and respect
3. Work with nursing staff, multi-disciplinary teams and other allied health professionals
4. Actively participate in team handovers, providing verbal reports as required
5. Frequently use interpersonal and communication skills to de-escalate and reduce aggressive behaviour if encountered from patients and carers
6. Implement agreed standards of care provision in line with local Ward/Unit/community and Trust policies, Adhere to all Trust Policies and Procedures
7. Act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs of all patients
8. Make appropriate objective written entries in patient records, for validation by Qualified staff, to ensure that these are accurate and up to date
9. Using judgement skills when seeking of feedback from patients to inform qualified staff to enable the development of services
10. Be aware of own limitations, seek support if and when the need arises, maintain professional boundaries at all times
11. Periodically collect specimens which may be body fluids, Phlebotomy blood, urine samples
About us
We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.
Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.
The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.
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Qualifications
Essential
12. Healthcare Qualification Level 2, 3 or working towards gaining equivalent levelGood basic education or GSCEs in English and Mathematics