Job summary
This role may be perfect for you if you are currently, or have been, a Healthcare Assistant. Here, you'll have the opportunity to build on your experience and be trained to a more specialist level.
You’ll have experience working with babies, children and young people in a health, education or social setting.
Aside from experience, we look for individuals who share our core values of kindness, excellence and courage. We’ll support you to go above and beyond to be there for the children and families we support – we ask that you share this mission with us.
You’ll thrive working autonomously and once you’ve received your training, you’ll be confident in your ability to deliver care on your own in the community. You’ll know the value of collaboration, and will work closely with your team members, other healthcare professionals and the families you support to provide the very best care.
You will be available to work a variety of shifts, including days, evenings, nights and weekends. You will have a full UK driving license and access to your own car. You will be paid for travel time, reimbursed for car parking and will have a generous mileage allowance.
You will adhere to policies and procedures at all times, underpinned by competency in clinical skills, working under the delegation of a registered children's nurse.
Main duties of the job
We're expanding our team and are looking for more Specialist Carers to join our charity. You’ll be joining an award-winning, certified Outstanding team, who do all they can to empower children and families to experience as much life as possible.
As a Specialist Carer, you'll provide life-changing care for babies, children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. You’ll do this by working in collaboration with their family, multidisciplinary teams and your other Noah's Ark colleagues.
You’ll be encouraged to put the experience of children and families at the heart of all you do. As well as understanding their clinical needs, you’ll get to know what’s important to each child you support. Whether it’s knowing what their favourite song to listen to is, how they like to play, or what soothes them when they are sad - at Noah's Ark it's so important that each child is treated as an individual. You'll focus on what children can do, rather than their limitations, and will support them to experience things they may never have thought possible.
By providing care for children, either at our state-of-the-art building, The Ark, or out in the community, you'll be allowing parents and carers to take some time for themselves. The hours of care you'll provide will make a huge difference, allowing them to live life outside of their child's condition. By creating this time, you'll be creating choice – something which can feel impossible for the families we support.
Your commitment to children and families will continue through to end-of-life care. You'll be a guiding reassuring presence for families and working with other healthcare professionals to create as much comfort as possible.
DBS
In addition, an enhanced DBS disclosure with Child Barring will be required for this post. Our recruitment checks, induction, ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding the families we support.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We believe that everyone deserves to be treated equally. It is central to our charity's mission. We ensure that no member of staff, or job applicant, is treated less favourably because of their sex, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, disability, gender identity or marital status.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will guarantee an interview to those candidates with a disability if they meet the minimum requirements of the role.
We particularly welcome and encourage applications from groups who are currently under-represented in our staff.
Part of our commitment is to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for a job vacancy, and consider them based on their abilities.
Our Diversity Council is working hard to construct positive changes within our organisation, and we particularly welcome applications from groups who are currently under-represented in our staff.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, we kindly advise you to submit your application as early as possible.
About us
We exist to help babies, children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, and their families, make the most of every day. Our mission is to enable those we support to enjoy life as children, not patients; as families, not just as carers.
Because everyone deserves to live life as themselves, beyond their condition or circumstances. We do this by listening to families. We know one size doesn’t fit all, so we cater our services to each individual person we support. We can do this from the point of diagnosis.
Our help is available wherever it is needed. Our expert staff and trained volunteers can provide support in a family's home, in the community, or at our state-of-the-art building, The Ark, in Barnet. We work in collaboration with key NHS Trusts and other care providers to deliver the very best support to children and families. We have created a space where children with complex needs are accepted as they are, safe to play, explore, express themselves and build confidence.
Job responsibilities
This role may be perfect for you if you are currently, or have been, a Healthcare Assistant. Here, you'll have the opportunity to build on your experience and be trained to a more specialist level.
As part of the Specialist Care Team, you will be required to facilitate clinical and holistic care to babies, children, and young people in our care. You will be required to work in our Woodlands inpatient unit, our families’ homes and in the community, delivering the highest quality family-centred palliative care. You will need to be available to work a variety of shifts across a rota including days, evenings and weekends. There will also be regular travel across our operating region.
Specialist Carers provide care for children and young people with life-threatening and/or life-limiting conditions and support for their families and carers. This will involve working collaboratively with the family, and internal and external multidisciplinary teams and colleagues. You will use your skills, knowledge and expertise in a variety of situations within the hospice as well as out in the community and in family homes. You will be trained and competent to work as a lone worker in the community. Shift patterns will include a rotation of weekends, bank holidays, early morning/evening and night shifts, which are an integral part of the service delivery.
You will safeguard all children and young people accessing our services, by responding to concerns raised in a timely and appropriate manner and effectively escalating these in accordance with policies and procedures.
ABOUT YOU
You will enjoy creating experiences, activities and play for those in your care, as well as working with your team to ensure their nursing care needs are met.
You will adhere to policies and procedures at all times, underpinned by competency in clinical skills, working under the delegation of a registered children’s nurse.
You will need to be available to work a variety of shifts across a rota including days, evenings, nights and weekends.
You will need to have a full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle for business use. This is essential to cover our wide geographical operating region.
As a valued member of Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice, we will offer you free uniforms, free DBS, ongoing professional support and role-specific training. Time for travel will be paid, including free car parking and a generous mileage allowance.
In addition, an enhanced DBS disclosure with Child Barring will be required for this post. Our recruitment checks, induction, ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding the families we support.
Noah's Ark Children's Hospice is a Disability Confident employer.
Part of our commitment is to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for a job vacancy, and consider them based on their abilities.
Our Diversity Council is working hard to construct positive changes within our organisation, and we particularly welcome applications from groups who are currently under-represented in our staff.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, we kindly advise you to submit your application as early as possible.
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