Healthcare Support Worker

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare institution in the UK seeks a passionate Healthcare Support Worker to support children and young people, promote their wellbeing, and assist professionals in care planning. The role involves working with a dynamic team in a Young Persons Ward, ensuring a nurturing environment. Applicants should be communicative, understanding, and dedicated to children's health standards.

Benefits

Wellness opportunities

Flexible working

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with children and young people.
• Ability to report health status effectively to professionals.
• Understanding of equality, diversity, rights, and responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Support an allocated group of children and young people.
• Promote physical health and recovery.
• Assist professionals in assessments and care planning.

Skills

Communication with children and young people

Risk identification and reporting

Professional boundaries maintenance

Team collaboration

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provide support and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of children and young people.
• Promote and support the physical health, comfort, wellbeing and recovery of children and young people, and assist them in re‑establishing their place in the community, as appropriate.
• Assist Registered Professionals in assessments, care planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised care plans.
• Provide support and day‑to‑day supervision to junior staff members as required, demonstrating the Health Care Support Worker role and role‑modeling good practice.

Background

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 (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. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme. 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.

Qualifications

1. Communicate with children and young people and carers, all members of the multi‑disciplinary team and staff in external agencies using a variety of methods including Information Technology.
2. Regularly report and effectively communicate children and young people 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.
3. Relate appropriately with children and young people, carers, colleagues and others – at all times maintaining professional boundaries.
4. At all times ensure that own actions support the equality, diversity, rights and responsibilities of individuals.
5. Identify, minimise and report risks of danger, harm and abuse to senior colleagues.
6. At all times minimise risks to self and others by undertaking safe working practices.
7. At all times work within agreed and established Trust policy and operational procedures.
8. Work with other Trust services to promote seamless service‑user person centred care from referral/admission, to transfer and discharge on identified care pathways.
9. Responsible for contribution towards planning and undertaking delivery of planned therapeutic activities with an identified group of service users.
10. Responsible for undertaking elements of a holistic assessment, under the direction of Registered Health Professional staff. Responsible for regularly working with children and young people to negotiate and review existing plans to address identified needs under the supervision of Registered Professionals.

Additional Information

• 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.
• 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 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.

There is an exciting opportunity to work as a Healthcare Support Worker within the Darwin Centre. We are searching for extra special Healthcare Support Workers who have experience, passion and pride when caring for younger persons and this vacancy would suit someone who is looking for an exciting opportunity and wants to work on a Young Persons Ward.