Senior Children'S Community Carer - Surrey

Hcrg Care Group; Guildford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group Pension

Discounts via My Reward Hub

Wages-on-demand access

Wellbeing support & coaching

Career development via Learning & The

Job summary

Join HCRG Care Group as a Senior Community Carer in Surrey/Guildford to deliver safe, high-quality care to children with complex medical needs in their homes and community settings.

You will guide and mentor colleagues, support service development, and work closely with families and multidisciplinary teams to ensure personalised and effective care. This role involves 24/7 service with night shifts and weekend rotations, and requires a driving licence and car for work.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in Health or Social Care or recognised Nursery Nurse qualification.
• British Sign Language Level 1 or Makaton.
• Experience supporting children with complex health needs in home settings.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Full driving licence and access to a car.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality care to children and young people with complex health needs, following care plans and safeguarding procedures.
• Communicate clearly and compassionately with children, families, and colleagues; adapt when needed.
• Upscale concerns or changes in a child’s condition to the Clinical Case Manager.
• Ensure safe use of clinical equipment and maintain competency in relevant procedures.
• Mentor and train colleagues to maintain high standards of care.
• Work as a lone worker, prioritising workload while seeking guidance as required.

Skills

British Sign Language

Experience with children

Clear communication

Education

NVQ Level 3 Health or Social Care

Nursery Nurse qualification

Job description

Senior Children's Community Carer - Surrey HCRG Care Group Guildford, United Kingdom

Package Description:

As a Senior Community Carer we value you and your wellbeing, offering a range of benefits to help you feel supported and appreciated:

• Starting salary of £27,674 plus Group Pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

Are you an experienced and compassionate carer ready to take the next step in your career?

Join HCRG Care Group as a Senior Community Carer, where you’ll play a key role in delivering safe, high‑quality care to children with complex medical needs in their own homes and within the community. This is a rewarding opportunity to use your skills, support families, and help children live safely, comfortably and confidently in familiar surroundings.

In this senior role, you’ll bring your knowledge and experience to guide and mentor colleagues, support service development, and work closely with families and multidisciplinary teams to ensure every child’s care is personalised and effective.

If you are passionate about making a meaningful impact and ready for a role with responsibility, purpose, and progression, we would love to hear from you.

• Deliver consistent, high‑quality care to children and young people with complex health needs, following care plans and safeguarding procedures.
• Communicate clearly and compassionately with children, families, and multidisciplinary colleagues, adjusting your approach where communication barriers exist.
• Maintain professional boundaries and promptly upscale concerns or changes in a child’s condition to the Clinical Case Manager.
• Ensure the availability and safe use of clinical equipment, including ventilators, feeding pumps, oxygen monitors, and other medical devices.
• Develop and maintain advanced clinical competencies in tracheostomy care, ventilation, gastrostomy care, and other complex procedures.
• Administer medication safely and accurately, ensuring all care is appropriately recorded.
• Work independently as a lone worker, managing and prioritising your workload while seeking guidance where required.
• Provide mentorship, support, and informal training to colleagues to help maintain a high standard of care across the service.

Schedule

This is a 24/7 service, which includes night shifts and weekend rotations throughout the year.

Please refer to the attached Job Description for the full list of duties.

Ideal Candidate

• NVQ Level 3 in Health or Social Care, or a recognised Nursery Nurse qualification.
• Understanding of the impact of providing care for children with complex medical needs in their homes.
• Experience working with children with additional or complex needs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build rapport and connect with children and families.
• Willingness and ability to develop new theoretical and practical skills.
• British Sign Language Level 1 or Makaton.
• Experience supporting technology‑dependent children or carrying out relevant clinical procedures.
• Minimum 1 year’s experience supporting children with complex health needs.
• Minimum 1 year’s experience working with children in another setting (e.g., nursery, respite care, community service).

Other Requirements

A full driving licence and access to a car for work purposes are essential.

Please see the full Person Specification in the attached Job Description.

For further information please contact Lisa on 07867373045

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year, guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Full-time