Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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 where a child is unwell or where a child may be dying or where a child has died.
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 in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
Job 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 and back to other team members to ensure continuity of care.
5. Requires a caring, empathetic manner towards children with palliative and complex care needs, their parents or carers.
6. Interpersonal skills required to work effectively as part of an extensive multidisciplinary multi-agency team.
7. Required to communicate organised workload to Children's Community.
8. Required to keep contemporaneous records of their contacts with children.
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, e.g. foundation degree; or NVQ3 level qualification plus short courses or relevant experience to diploma level
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 and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
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.
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