Healthcare Support Worker

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust; Bicester; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in Bicester is looking for a part-time Healthcare Support Worker to join the Specialist Children's Short Break Team. The role involves working closely with children who have severe learning disabilities, helping them with personal care and promoting their health and wellbeing. Ideal candidates should be compassionate and have strong communication skills. Opportunities to support the children in fun activities are included.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Commitment to sustainability and diversity

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in providing therapeutic support to service users.
• Ability to assist Registered Professionals in care planning.
• Strong communication skills for interaction with multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide support and therapeutic time with service users.
• Assist with the physical health and wellbeing of service users.
• Identify and report risks of harm to senior colleagues.

Skills

Compassion

Communication

Teamwork

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 3 Healthcare Support Worker to join the Specialist Children's Short Break Team at Dragon Square (Part time - up to 33.75 hours per week) The service provides overnight short breaks for children and young people with severe learning disabilities and other associated complex needs such as behaviours of concern and complex health needs. The role involves working as part of a team of Registered nurses and Healthcare Support workers in conjunction with the wider multi-agency team such as school, social workers, consultants, specialist nurses, community nurses and parents/carers to meet the needs of the children and young people and achieve positive outcomes for them, as well as supporting families and minimising the risk of family breakdown. The role is very diverse and varied and involves supporting the children and young people to meet their personal hygiene, diet and nutrition, communication, religion, and cultural needs, and health and wellbeing, as well as social and sensory needs, and developing daily living skills and independence. There are lots of opportunities to support the children to have fun when they are on a short break. If you feel you are compassionate, have a positive outlook and have lots of motivation, please apply. The service is registered with Ofsted and is rated Good. North Staffs Combined Healthcare Trust is rated outstanding by CQC.

Key Responsibilities

• PLEASE NOTE - SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR THIS ROLE, To provide support and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of service users.
• To promote and support the physical health, comfort, wellbeing and recovery of service-users, and to assist them in re-establishing their place in the community, as appropriate. To assist Registered Professionals in assessments and care planning/ implementation and evaluation of individualized care plans. To provide support and day-to-day supervision to junior staff members as required, demonstrating the Healthcare Support Worker role and role modelling good practice.
• Working for our organisation: As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care. We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working. We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 and to achieve net zero through a suite of initiatives. We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
• Communicates with service-users and carers, all members of the multi-disciplinary team and staff in external agencies using a variety of methods including Information Technology. Regularly reports and effectively communicates service-users health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to Registered Health Professional staff members and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Identifies, minimizes and reports risks of danger, harm and abuse to senior colleagues.
• In the event of exceptionally high levels of response, we reserve the right to close the post before the date stated above in order to prevent the number of applications received being unmanageable. You are advised to submit your completed application form as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered.
• Priority will be given to NHS staff across the region who are at risk of redundancy, where the vacancy is at the same band or one below their current band and candidates meet the essential criteria for this post.
• All employees new to the Trust will be subject to a 6 month probationary period.
• All clinical staff bands 2-4 that are new to the Trust will be required to complete a Care Certificate.
• Canvassing of members of the Trust or of any Committee of the Trust directly or indirectly for any appointment under the Trust shall disqualify the candidate for such appointment.
• The Trust does not pay travel expenses for candidates attending interviews.
• ALL POSTS INVOLVING ACCESS TO PERSONS IN RECEIPT OF HEALTH SERVICES WILL BE SUBJECT TO A DISCLOSURE & BARRING SERVICE DISCLOSURE.
• Please provide full contact details for all referees, especially their email addresses where possible. Failure to do may result in significant delays in your application. There may also be a requirement to provide additional referee details.