Right Start and School Nursing Team Support Worker

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
To provide clerical and clinical support for the Right Start & School Nursing Team under the direction of the Right Start / School Nursing Team Leader.

**Main duties of the job**:
Contributing to the delivery of the Early Years offer and Healthy Child Programme

Measure children’s heights, weights, and plot centiles after the completion of training and assessment of competence

Assist the Team in providing a health promoting and health education service for children and families.

Maintain the stock of stationary and other resources used by the Team in the delivery of the service.

Report complaints, accidents, and untoward incidents according to Trust policy.

Attend and participate in team meetings.

To actively promote engagement and participation.

To report signs of child neglect / abuse to the school nurse immediately

Work as part of an integrated team following agreed protocols.

Deal with issues of a sensitive nature (Child Protection) observing security and confidentiality following Policies and Procedures laid down by the Trust.

Provide cover for colleagues during annual leave and sickness absence.

Ensure telephone calls and messages are accurately recorded and responded to and queries dealt with appropriately

Contact clients to make appointments and ensure that the correct administration processes are undertaken/followed up.

Produce health education material if required

Record data as requested for service development and audit purposes.

Identify and maintain stock levels of consumables required within the service

Organise the distribution and return of core programme information, including questionnaires and consent forms

**Working for our organisation**:
**Oldham Care Organisation**

Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Previous experience of working with children in a formal work or voluntary setting.
- Office skills
- Customer care skills

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of working in health or social care setting with children.

**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Good standard of education to include GCSE English and Maths at C or above (or equivalent) IT qualification
- NVQ Level 2 in Child Care or equivalent.

**Skills and Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Good communication skills
- Good organisation skills Able to organise own day to day work
- Understanding of safeguarding
- On the job training relating to work procedures

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