Health Care Support Worker Children's Palliative

5 months ago


Grantham, United Kingdom United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

This is an exiting opportunity to join the Children’s Palliative Care and Short Breaks Team that provides periods of short break care and family support to children and young people with life limiting conditions within the child or young person’s home. This will include evenings, occasional nights, occasional weekends and before school visits. The care provided is child and family-centered to allow them to use their allocated time as they would wish. The aim of the service is to provide high quality short break care/palliative care to children whilst enhancing the quality of life for the whole family. The team are based at Grantham Hospital but cover the whole County of Lincolnshire so applicants are welcome from all areas. This post has 30 hour fixed term and 22.5 hour substantive contract opportunities.

The post holder will perform specific interventions as identified by competency achievement to enhance the delivery of care such as, but not exclusively: enteral feeding, tracheostomy care, invasive and non-invasive ventilation, medication administration
- oral, enteral, rectal, sublingual and buccal, physiological observations, wound management.

You will receive training in moving and handling, life support, and any other areas that are identified as necessary to meet the individual child’s care needs. This will include nasogastric feeding, gastrostomy care, ventilator care, airway management including tracheostomy care and seizure management.

The role requires the applicant to travel across Lincolnshire so it is essential that you have the ability to travel independently throughout Lincolnshire. You must hold a current driving license and be a car user.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

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