Support Worker

7 days ago


Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time


Job overview

We are really excited to be expanding our team so that we can support more children and their families at home. By providing support to Children and young people in their own homes, it enables parents/carers to get a good night's sleep.

The role does involve being trained in a variety of clinical skills but you will be given training to achieve all the clinical skills. We offer a individualised induction programme to ensure that all new starters are supported to be confident and competent with each skill. If you do not currently have the clinical experience but have transferrable skills do get in touch to find out more.

Team members provide clinical care into children's homes to allow parents to take a break from their caring responsibilities

Watch the video below to find out more about the Children's Complex Care Team

Please be advised this advert might be closed early once we receive enough suitable applications.

  • Closing Date 14th June 2024
  • Interviews to be held 27th June 2024

A Driving License is required as this is a role involving county-wide travel.



Main duties of the job

The skills that you can potentially learn include the following

  • Medication administration
  • Feeding via a gastrostomy tube/button
  • Using a nebuliser
  • Supporting a child on a ventilator
  • Hoisting
  • Oral suction
  • Observations

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.



Working for our organisation

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

  • 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
  • 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
  • 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
  • 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.



Detailed job description and main responsibilities
  • Provide care directly to children requiring specific interventions to maintain their quality

    of life
  • Carry out a range of nursing care tasks for the child according to the child's care plan

    ensuring the child's physical/emotional and educational/play needs are met
  • Help with personal care and use of appropriate equipment to hoist, move and handle

    child safely.
  • Assist with assessing and reviewing needs of child/young people and help implementation of care programmes, this will entail attending patient assessments with Team Leader for Complex care team and liaising with other clinical support workers in

    the team to ensure effective delivery of care.

We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners. In addition to the programme we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module "Preceptorship for Healthcare" (AP7026).

Newly qualified Social Workers are offered the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment programme (ASYE) which is similar to a preceptorship programme.



Person specification

essential

Essential criteria
  • Care Certificate or Willingness to Undertake
  • Lone working in a community setting
  • A valid Driving License is required


Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working with Children
  • Experience of clinical skills
  • Communicating with children who have limited verbal communication skills


Desirable

Essential criteria
  • Working with children in a community setting or within a healthcare environment


Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working with Children


When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:

  • Free car parking at many of our sites
  • 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
  • A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
  • A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Social Workers, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
  • Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
  • Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
  • Recognition and long service awards
  • Fast Track physiotherapy
  • Our Wellbeing line
  • Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.


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