Children's Continuing Care Assistant

Oxleas; Greater London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in London is seeking a Continuing Care Assistant to join the Community Children’s Nursing team. You will provide direct clinical care to named children aged 0-19 with complex health needs in their homes and community settings, on a 20-hour-per-week part-time contract with night shifts.

You will work under supervision of the Lead Continuing Care nurse and with an Assistant Practitioner, following individual care plans and ensuring safety checks and proper use of

Qualifications

• NVQ 3 or the Cavendish Care certificate.
• GCSEs or equivalent
• Working with children with disabilities and complex health needs.
• 1 year experience working with children and young people.
• Working as part of a team.
• Clinical experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide packages of care for named individual children with complex health care needs at home.
• Support play and development in home and community settings.
• Maintain high standards of personal care including hygiene for all babies, children and young people.
• Carry out duties with the Assistant Practitioner and Lead Continuing Care nurse when required.
• Work as part of a team offering support and advice to families within own scope of practice.
• Be competent in working with equipment in the home and report any issues.

Skills

Teamwork

Education

NVQ 3 or Cavendish Care certificate

GCSEs or equivalent

Job description

Main area Children & Young People Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent: Flexible shift patterns Hours Part time - 20 hours per week (10 hour night shifts) Job ref 277-8296345-CYP

Site Bostall House Town London Salary £30,630 - £32,346 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

The Community Children’s Nursing team is part of an integrated network of services for children in Greenwich providing high quality, specialist child centred care.

The team of specialist & generic children’s community nurses provide highly skilled, nursing care to children & families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.

The Continuing Care Assistant would work with all members of the team where a child required an individualised package of care to provide direct clinical care to named individual babies, children & young people aged 0-19 years with complex health needs including severe learning disabilities and life limiting, life threatening conditions in their home & in various community settings.

This service is provided by the children’s community nursing team to deliver 24 hours holistic care on a rota basis using individualised single care plans that have been written by the Lead Continuing Care nurse for a named child. Work will be supervised by an Assistant Practitioner & competency based training will be provided by the Clinical Skills Nurse. Nursing duties will be delegated by the Assistant practitioner & the nurses within the Team. The Continuing Care Assistants report any changes in the child’s condition as stated in the care plan to the lead Continuing Care Nurse or a nurse in the Team.

Main duties of the job

Key Task and Responsibilities

• To work as a member of the children’s community nursing team providing packages of care for named individual children with complex health care needs in their home.
• To ensure that children receive the planned play and stimulation related to their emotional developmental needs in the home and community setting.
• To encourage and maintain high standards of personal care, including hygiene for all babies, children and young people.
• To carry out duties, within good practice guidelines, involving the Assistant Practitioner and Lead Continuing Care nurse when required.
• To work as part of a team offering support and advice to families within own scope of practice.
• To be competent in working with equipment in the home. For example feeding pumps, administration of emergency medication and use of hoists.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

• To carry out care plans developed by the Lead Continuing Care nurse and supervised by the Assistant Practitioner.
• To undertake skilled clinic tasks following competency based training for named children for whom they provide care; for example tracheostomy care, enteral feeding (naso-gastric/Gastrostomy/jejunostomy), suctioning, changing oxygen probes and basic life support.
• To be familiar with all equipment required to support the child and to report any deficiency immediately.
• To carry out and record defined safety checks of technical equipment during each shift reporting any issues to the family and Assistant Practitioner.
• To identify concerns and report to the continuing care nurse.
• To implement agreed individual programmes of care and act as key worker if required.
• To carry out duties, within good practice guidelines and involving senior clinicians where required.
• To check and maintain a safe environment and equipment when working.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Person specification

Education

• NVQ 3 or the Cavendish Care certificate
• GCSEs or equivalent

Experience

• Working with children with disabilities and complex health needs
• 1 years experience working with children and young people

Experience

• Working as part of a team
• Clinical experience

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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