Family Support Worker

3 weeks ago

StokeonTrent, United Kingdom Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and can offer you:

- Our SOOTHE resources - supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
- Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
- “In our Gift” providing a platform for your voice to be heard to inform change
- The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
- Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programs
- Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
- Child Care Vouchers Scheme
- Recognition and engagement through our staff LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and Staff Engagement Surveys
- NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes

We are looking for a motivated Band 4 Family Support Worker to join the Palliative and Complex Care Team to provide essential respite to children currently on the team caseload.

The post holder will work as part of the PACCT Community Nursing Team, with support from the band 5/6’s and the Team Leader. You will be involved in providing care in children’s homes, in community settings, or even within the acute trust (RSUH) for children with largely palliative conditions. The PACCT team supports the Staffordshire ICB with a clear remit of named nurse caseload working, providing ongoing support of children and families, being an advocate for service users, and offering an end-of-life service to enable children to remain at home if this is their wish.

We have a busy and culturally diverse caseload of children and young people with palliative and complex health needs. We also support our acute service, with support involving complex care and palliative care. We also have robust links with multidisciplinary health services and with education and social care.

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Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

The main duty for the post holder will be to provide short-break respite for service users, mainly within the home environment.

You will support registered practitioners to assess service users, and contribute to the development and implementation of programmes of treatment/ care/support for children, young people, their families and carers. The care/support plans may include the following:

- Promoting independence/self-management and maintaining safety
- Provide short breaks and/or support to children and their families with complex heath care needs
- Increased functional ability
- Improvement in health and wellbeing including mental health
- Interventions in disease/condition management
- Prevention and reducing of health inequalities
- Admission avoidance
- Early supported discharge
- Contribute to case management/ treatment /care plans
- Palliative and end of life care

You will use your own knowledge and judgement to consider a range of care and support packages that are available to service users. We always consider the personal circumstances or wishes of our Children and their families, and will adjust any programme to support these wishes, whilst ensuring maximum service provision and care.

Any adjustments made to programmes of care and intervention will be reported back to the registered practitioner.

All of the responsibilities of the post holder will be outlined in detail within the attached job description and person specification.

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