Health Care Assistant - Children's Community Services | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Manchester is seeking a health care assistant to join their children's long-term ventilation team. The role involves delivering crucial care packages for children with complex needs in family homes and community settings. Candidates should be prepared for diverse shifts across a 7-day week. The ideal applicant will have experience in pediatric care and demonstrate flexibility and teamwork skills, contributing to high standards of care in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave allowance

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering care packages for children with complex needs.
• Ability to work flexible hours including days, evenings, and nights.

Responsibilities

• Deliver continuing care packages for children and young people with life-limiting needs.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary partners and work across community settings.

Job description

Are you a health care assistant / support worker that has a desire to work within a great team, with remarkable people, who make a difference every day?

If this is you, then we would love you to come and work with us and see for yourself the difference you can make within your role.

Disability Confident

About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please refer to the Disability Confident page.

Team and Setting

We are looking for experienced people to join our children's long term ventilation team; this dynamic service has its footprint within the Oldham locality and is provided mainly within family homes, but also across special school sites and community-based settings.

Immigration and Salary

Changes to the UK immigration policy introduced on the 9th April 2025 increased the minimum salary threshold for certificates of sponsorship applications for Health and Care Worker Visa from £23,200 (£11.90 per hour) to £25,000 (£12.82 per hour). For further information on the Health and Care Worker visa, please visit the Home Office website.

As per Agenda for Change, if you are new to the NHS your starting salary would be £24,937 (minimum Band 3 salary point from 1st April 2025 in line with National Living Wage requirements). This salary point is below the new minimum threshold, and therefore not eligible for sponsorship. For further information please check the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook on the NHS Employers website.

Role Summary

The post holder will work alongside immediate team colleagues and external multidisciplinary partners, to deliver continuing care packages for children and young people, aged 0 – 19, who have life limiting / complex care needs and/or technology dependence. The hours worked will be based within family homes and community settings across a 7 day working week and across day, evening and night shifts.

The post holder will work within the Children’s Long-term Ventilation and Complex needs team but may at times utilise their skills and knowledge, by working across other areas of the wider children’s community nursing service as deemed necessary and appropriate by the service lead.

About Us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

Benefits

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.