Healthy Family Support Worker Apprentice

Job Introduction
As a Healthy Family Practitioner you’ll join a team who are focused on having a positive impact on children and families by supporting those in your local community through facilitating parenting groups and offering 1:1 guidance to really make our service users and staff feel the difference.

Main Responsibilities
As a Healthy Family Support Worker within HCRG Care Group you’ll join a team who are focused on clinical excellence and positive outcomes for children and families.

Your days will be rewarding and varied and include:

- Working across the Lancashire Young People & Healthy Families Service with preschool and primary school aged children and their families under the direction of Health Visitor, School Nurse and Staff Nurses.
- Utilising your knowledge of child developmental milestones to provide key elements of the Healthy Child Programme.
- Targeted support based on need as delegated by a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse / Team Leader and members of the wider team.
- You will predominantly work within the School Nursing team supporting the delivery of the National, Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), School Health Needs Assessment and other targeted work related to children and families.

You will have a good general education and evidence of personal and professional development. You will have experience of working in partnership with families and liaising with parents regarding their child’s needs. Most importantly we are looking for someone who can work as part of an effective team and is passionate about the wellbeing and development of children in the local area.

About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.

From around 500 locations across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

As a Disability Confident Committed company, we work in partnership with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to make our business an inclusive place for all.

HCRG Care Group, its subsidiary companies and the LLPs are part of the HCRG Care Group and provide publicly funded health and social care services. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.

Package Description
As an **Apprentice Healthy Family Support Worker**, you will complete a nationally recognised **Level 3 senior healthcare support worker qualification**, with diploma in healthcare awarded through City and Guilds. To support you in successfully completing your programme you’ll be given **monthly learning days with weekly study time to develop your knowledge and skills.**

A **dedicated assessor** who will support you in your journey and help you realise and achieve your career aspirations. A work mentor who works in your department to support you through your apprenticeship and settle you into your new role.

You can find out more about this qualification here Senior Healthcare Support Worker Level 3 - TLE (thelearningenterprise.co.uk)

We also offer the **care certificate** to all our unregistered health care professionals. This is the start of your education and training with us and forms part of a robust induction programme giving you the fundamental evidence-based training to support you in your role with us.

**Along with receiving this professional development opportunity, you will also have access to exclusive reward and benefits including**:

- Salary of **£21,000 and a group pension**:

- **Membership of My Reward Hub**, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- **Access to your wages as you earn them** to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- **Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing** - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- **Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development **through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- **An open, just culture** where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least **£100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year**:

- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the **highest clinical and quality standards**: with **100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission