Children's Community Clinical Support Worker

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Welwyn Garden City is seeking a Children's Community Clinical Support Worker to deliver specialized nursing care to children in their homes. The role requires a commitment to training and working in a flexible environment. Ideal candidates will have Level 2 and Level 3 qualifications in health care, along with prior experience in healthcare settings. Competitive salary along with a High-Cost Area Supplement and supportive training provided.

Benefits

5% High Cost Area Supplement

Qualifications

• Previous experience with children and/or in a health care setting.
• Previous experience within Continuing Care.

Responsibilities

• Undertaking all necessary training to provide nursing care to children.
• Work collaboratively with others to meet patient needs.
• Participate in the development of self and others.

Skills

Able to act on own initiative

Basic IT skills

Competencies in clinical nursing skills

Education

Level 2 studies in Paediatric Support or Health and Social Care or equivalent

Level 3 in Health Care studies

Job description

Go back East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Children's Community Clinical Support Worker

The closing date is 03 December 2025

We are recruiting for a Children's Community Clinical Support Worker who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Children's Continuing Care Team provides specialised, child specific respite service to children and their families with complex health needs/profound disabilities in the child's own home throughout East & North Hertfordshire.

Clinical Support Workers will be responsible for independently delivering specialist nursing care within the family home without direct supervision.

All necessary training will be given with ongoing facilitation from qualified nurses.

Please review the attached 'week in the life' document which will give you an insight into the role of a Children's Community Support Worker.

Please note Night shifts will be expected in this role.

In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 5% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,258 and a maximum payment of £2,121 per annum pro rata

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

You will undertake all necessary training in order to provide nursing care to children with complex health needs within the family home in an unsupervised capacity.

Undertaking such skills as enteral feeding, c/o tracheostomies, c/o children who are long term ventilated, seizure management, oxygen administration.

Work collaboratively and co-operatively with others to meet the needs of patients and their families.

Participate in the development of self and others.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

• Level 2 studies in Paediatric Support or Health and Social Care or equivalent
• Level 3 in Health Care studies

Previous Experience

• Previous experience with children and/or in a health care setting
• Previous experience within Continuing Care

Skills

• Able to act on own initiative
• Basic IT skills
• Competencies in clinical nursing skills

Knowledge

• An understanding of safeguarding issues
• Knowledge of information governance
• An understanding of lone working and conflict resolution

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

£24,937 to £26,598 a year Per annum, Plus 5% High Cost Area Supplement