Community Healthcare Assistant - Children’s Bladder and Bowel Service

Lancsteachinghospitals; Leyland; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Community Healthcare Assistant for the Children's Bladder and Bowel Service. This role offers the chance to support children through assessments and care plans, making a meaningful impact on their lives. The position provides training and opportunities to develop skills in a collaborative setting, with a focus on delivering specialist care closer to home.

Benefits

Additional training and support

Networking opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in working with children and young people.
• Ability to handle sensitive situations and provide emotional support.
• Transferable skills to enhance service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Support children in assessments and intervention programs.
• Develop and implement individualized toileting programs.
• Collaborate with team members to provide holistic care.

Skills

Motivating children

Care planning

Engagement

Job description

Community Healthcare Assistant - Children’s Bladder and Bowel Service

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Community Healthcare Assistant - Children’s Bladder and Bowel Service

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to be at the forefront of our continued transformation journey within our Children's Community and Specialist Services here at LTHTR.

Our Children's Bladder and Bowel Service provides expert nursing assessment and interventions to prevent and manage incontinence ????, as well as support children and young people with chronic continence conditions across Greater Preston, Chorley, and South Ribble.

The team is based at Broadoaks Child Development Centre, our main Community site for Paediatric Services. This naturally provides great networking opportunities to collaborate with other teams based here.

As the Community Health Care Assistant for our Children’s Bladder and Bowel Service, you will be working within the team, supporting children who require assessment, care planning, and intervention following referral into the service.

This is a rare opportunity to be integral within a nurse-led service where you can make a real difference and have a meaningful impact on how specialised care is delivered closer to home.

You will have the opportunity to utilise your skill set by applying your skills in motivating children, their parents and support staff when empowering and engaging them in their assessment and toilet training program.

You will be instrumental within the service's triaging process and have a real steer on independently developing, implementing and evaluating individualised structured toileting programs and initiate care plans using evidence based advice and information, for children who have been referred for problematic toilet training.

You will also have the opportunity to continue to develop your own and other's development through working collaborate with colleagues from other professional groups in order to provide holistic package of care for children with complex and neurodiversity needs.

In doing this, you will need to prioritise and manage own workload, seeking advice and support from colleagues, where required to do so.

Not only is our team undergoing continual transformation and at the forefront of national practice for Children and Young People; the setting we are based at, Broadoaks Child Development Centre, is too!

We continually strive to provide specialist services closer to the Children and Young People's home here at LTHTR and we would welcome your views and input on this too.

We acknowledge that this is a specialist service and we really do want someone with transferrable skills to enhance our current offer.

If you think this is something you could bring bucketful's of passion, creativity, knowledge and a keenness to continually learn and develop; we want to hear from you.

Additional training and support from the whole team to ensure you continually develop, is a given and we would like you to be open around your areas of further interest and development to ensure we can support your development needs.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mags Bennett Job title: Clinical Nurse Lead Children's Bladder and Bowel Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07928741233

Please feel free to contact myself, or the team to find out more about the service and what we do.

01772 215560

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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