Paediatric Healthcare Support Worker

NHS National Services Scotland; Inverness; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Highland is expanding its Paediatric Complex Care team to support children and families in the home and wider community.

The post offers flexible day, evening, weekend and night shifts, with travel across locations and accommodation provided where needed. Training takes around eight weeks, after which you will work under supervision to meet each child’s healthcare needs and support education and hospital appointments as part of the team.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with Children and/or community care is essential to this role.

Responsibilities

• Accompany child and/or family during school/nursery, hospital appointments/admissions, outings and respite during shifts.
• Support children and families across NHS Highland in the home environment and wider community.
• Work within guidelines and competency structures with supervision from the team leader.

Skills

Experience with Children/CommunityCare

Job description

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Full and Part-time Hours Considered

The Paediatric Complex Care team is expanding due to an increase in children being referred to the service. The Complex Care Team support children and their families across NHS Highland in the home environment and wider community.

This is a very rewarding post to enable these children/families to be able to access education, allow parents to have a restful sleep overnight knowing their child is being cared for to a high standard. The post holder will be joining a team to support the children within the service. The post holder will accompany the child and/or family during school/nursery, hospital appointments/admissions, outings and respite etc during their shift.
Experience of working with Children and/or community care experience is essential to this role.

Training and support will be provided to achieve various tasks and skills with assessed competency. Training takes approximately 8 weeks. Following training and assessment, competencies are achieved the post holder will lone work with the child/family with direct responsibility for the child’s healthcare needs. The post holder will work within a set of guidelines and protocols and under the remit of devised competency structures with support and assessment from the team leader.

This post holder is expected to be flexible and work a variety of day, evening, weekend and night shifts does include shifts and is a 24/7 service.

Children at present live within various locations throughout NHS Highland and travel is an essential part of the role. Travel expenses will be reimbursed and accommodation provided for stays.

Access and use of own car is essential.

Informal enquiries welcome to:

Samantha Tait – [e-mail]
Rebekah Black – [e-mail]

Additional information for candidates

Flexible Working

• Flexible working options may be available, depending on the role and service needs. If this is important to you, please discuss it at interview.

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What is it like to work for NHS Highland?

• Visit https://www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk/careers/ to find out more about living and working in our area


• Applications are welcome from Gaelic speakers

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Dignity and respect

Openness, honesty and responsibility

Quality and teamwork