Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
To provide practical and emotional support to children and siblings.
To work in liaison with other family/sibling support services to ensure multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working, to enable a seamless system for children and families.
To provide practical and emotional support to the siblings and immediate family following a child's death.
To work closely with team members using your own initiative, good organisational leadership, and time management skills.
Main duties of the job
* To guide and assist the nurses & short break facilitators in assessing the emotional needs of the child and immediate family.
* Developing an individualised plan of care.
* Enabling the short break facilitators to provide distraction techniques utilising therapeutic, sensory, and developmental play activities.
* To attend and contribute to team meetings, case load updates, and meetings relevant to the child.
* To participate in the development of projects which lead to service improvements.
* To liaise and create links with the mortuary, funeral directors, and other agencies as part of end-of-life care for the child and immediate family.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford, and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. To be even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits, and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
* Degree level study in child health
* Counselling Skills Training
* Safeguarding knowledge
* Understanding grief and bereavement
* Knowledge and oversight of spiritual care
* 2 years training in a childcare setting
* Evidence of working with child and family in difficult situations
* Ability to communicate with the wider MDT
* Awareness of needs relating to palliative care patients and complex needs
* Advanced communication
* Awareness of outside agencies
* Awareness of legislation relating to children and young people
* Experience of working within healthcare, hospice, palliative care environment, and community
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.
Employer Name
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
£29,970 to £36,483 a year, pro rata
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