Children's Community Support Worker

Would you like to make a difference to the community you live in and love? Our teams support families to live independently and improve their quality of life in the place they like to call home. As a Lifetime Support Worker, you'll play a vital role in our service. You will work closely Community Children's Nurses to provide ongoing clinical care to children in their own home and/or at school. This exciting role is flexible and dynamic around family life providing an excellent work/life balance and you will have access to training and development if you wish to pursue a career in nursing, training, or management. We will offer a tailored training package to suit your development needs to make sure you feel fully supported within your new role - should you wish to progress further in your career then Sirona can offer a number of opportunities such as apprenticeships, where we have strong links with local higher education partners. **We currently have vacancies in the following areas**: Bristol North Somerset South Gloucestershire BANES The purpose of this role is to provide care to children with complex, life limiting health care needs. Comprehensive training and support will be provided until you are fully competent to carry out your role independently. You will undertake a range of important clinical tasks to support each individual with personal care and with other practical and therapeutic support that will be set out in their care plans - every child has their own specific care needs so you will gain experience caring for a wide variety of health needs and specialised equipment. **Personal Care**: - Manual handling - Changing incontinence pads - Bathing and washing - Getting dressed - Cleaning teeth - Meeting nutritional and fluid requirements A period of comprehensive competency-based training and support which will be provided by a qualified nurse. Once trained, you will work on your own but with continual guidance and support from experienced staff within your team. **Healthcare activities may include**: - Tracheostomy care and airway management - Ventilation - Enteral feeding via gastrostomy, jejunostomy or naso-gastric tube - Care of the child requiring oxygen administration - Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide monitoring and maintain records as appropriate - Seizure management - Administration of medication as prescribed We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, it’s about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care we would expect for ourselves and our families. **Benefits**: We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and the NHS pension scheme plus much more Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for details. We offer NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) salary including annual leave supplement, Stakeholder pension, a range of health and wellbeing incentives, high street discounts, plus much more We have full and part time hours available and can support flexible working patterns. What our current Lifetime S upport W orkers have to say about their role “I am in awe of the children I care for and the families I support. I hope that my small part in their sometimes short lives has made a difference to their quality of life. They have certainly made a difference to mine. I feel privileged to have been accepted into their homes, it’s not just a job, I have been doing this for 8 years and wish I had found it years ago”. - Lizzie "I feel honoured to be a part of our special children's lives. Knowing that we make a huge difference to the parents so they get some much needed rest, safe in the knowledge that their child is being cared for is an enormous privilege." - Ally “I am new to Lifetime, and I can say that I have been welcomed and really well supported by a very friendly team. Even though I had relatively little nursing experience the training has been so thorough and I have learnt so much. The children we work with are amazing, and at the end of each shift I feel that I have made a small yet essential contribution to their health and well-being, and provided some much needed rest to their families.” - Megan