Band 3 Special School Complex Care Assistant (Enteral Feeds)

Birmingham Community Health Care Nhs Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 9,000 - 15,000; Part time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking staff to join the Special School Nursing Service, supporting children with enteral feeds during the school day. You will work as part of a team delivering safe, person-centred care and assist with growth monitoring of children within the Healthy Child Programme.

The role involves multi-agency collaboration within a special school and other settings, reporting to the Team Leader, plus completing routine administrative duties to keep

Responsibilities

• Provide health care support to children/young people requiring enteral feeds during the school day.
• Work as part of a team delivering high standards of care and contribute to growth measurement within the Healthy Child Programme.
• Collaborate with multi-agency teams within a special school and other establishments under the Team Leader, reporting relevant information.
• Undertake administrative duties to enable the service to function effectively.

Job description

You will work as part of the Special School Nursing Service in providing health care support to children/young people who require enteral feeds during their school day. (Enteral feeding refers to intake of food via gastrointestinal tract through a tube directly into the stomach or small intestine for children who are unable to have all their diet and fluids by mouth).

To work as part of a team supporting the Special School Nursing Service to deliver a high standard of care to children/young people. To contribute to safe and effective growth measurement of children/young people within special school nursing service in line with Healthy Child Programme.

To work as part of a multi-agency team within a special school and other establishments under the direction of the Team Leader, reporting relevantinformation to special school nurse

To undertake administrative duties to enable the service to function effectively.

If you have experience of working with Children, especially Children with complex learning and health needs, we would like to hear from you.

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

The Post is for 18 hours per week, Monday - Friday, term time contract, fixed term for 12 months.