Senior Children's Community Carer - SW Surrey

HCRG Care Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in community health services is seeking a Senior Children's Community Carer. In this vital role, you will provide high-quality care to children with complex needs, supporting their health and well-being. Ideal candidates will have a NVQ 3 in health or social care and experience in childcare settings. Flexibility in working arrangements is offered to support your professional and personal life.

Benefits

Access to My Reward Hub for discounts

Access to wages as earned

Support for mental and physical wellbeing

Opportunities for continuing professional development

Free tea and coffee at base location

Qualifications

• Experienced in working with children with complex health needs.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to relate and create rapport with children.

Responsibilities

• Deliver consistent, high-quality care to children with complex needs.
• Communicate effectively with families and multidisciplinary teams.
• Administer medication and operate medical devices.
• Maintain professional boundaries and report changes in conditions.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Leadership

Education

NVQ 3 in health or social care

Job description

Senior Children's Community Carer - SW Surrey

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Job Introduction

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

Job Introduction

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

Join HCRG Care Group as a Senior Community Carer, where you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality care and support to children with complex medical needs in their homes and within the community.

In this leadership role, you will work closely with families and multidisciplinary teams, ensuring that care is safe, effective, and tailored to each child’s needs.

As a Senior Community Carer, you’ll provide mentorship and guidance to colleagues, contribute to service improvements, and help create a safe and stimulating environment where children can thrive.

If you are dedicated to making a meaningful impact and are ready to embrace this rewarding opportunity, we would love to hear from you.

Base:

You will be based at one of our Surrey-wide office hubs, working out in the community, with the flexibility of hybrid working to support your professional and personal needs.

At HCRG Care Group, we are proud to be a flexible-first employer. Our agile working approach allows our teams to thrive in a supportive and adaptable environment while delivering high-quality care.

Main Responsibility

• Deliver consistent, high-quality care to children/young people with complex health and well-being needs, following care plans and safeguarding procedures.
• Communicate effectively with children, families, and the multidisciplinary team, addressing barriers to understanding.
• Maintain professional boundaries and report concerns or changes in a child’s condition to the Clinical Case Manager.
• Ensure clinical equipment is available and operate medical devices such as ventilators, feeding pumps, and oxygen monitors with precision.
• Develop and maintain competencies in tracheostomy, ventilator, gastrostomy, and other advanced care tasks.
• Administer medication as trained and deemed competent, ensuring accurate documentation of all care provided.
• Manage and prioritise workload independently as a lone worker, seeking guidance from the Clinical Case Manager when needed.
  
  

Schedule:

• 24/7 service with night shifts across the year, including weekends
  
  

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• NVQ 3 in health or social care or recognised nursery nurse qualification
• Understanding the impact of providing/receiving care in the home for children with complex medical needs and their families
• Experience of working with children with additional needs
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to relate and create rapport with children.
  
  

Desirable

• Ability to learn theoretical/practical skills
• British Sign Language level 1
• Makaton
• Experience of relevant clinical procedures and technology dependency
• Minimum of 1yr experience working with children with complex health needs
• Minimum of 1yr working with children in other setting, e.g., nursery, respite service
  
  

Other requirements: the successful applicant will need to have a full driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.

Package Description

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

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

• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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.
  
  

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.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

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