Senior Community Carer - Surrey

NHS; Chertsey; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Senior Community Carer, delivering high-quality care to children with complex medical needs. In this leadership role, you'll mentor colleagues and ensure tailored care in a flexible, supportive environment. Your expertise will directly impact the lives of children and their families.

Benefits

Free tea and coffee

Membership of My Reward Hub

Access to wages as earned

Online and face-to-face support for wellbeing

Access to eLearning and career pathways

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children with additional needs.
• Minimum of 1 year experience working with children with complex health needs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver consistent, high-quality care to children with complex health needs.
• Communicate effectively with children, families, and the multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Communication

Rapport Building

Education

NVQ 3 in health or social care

Job description

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 duties of the job

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

About us

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 may need to close it earlier than the date shown here. If you're keen to join our team, please apply as soon as possible.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

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 everyday purchases, cashback, and voucher offers for treats for you and your loved ones
• 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 support for your mental and physical wellbeing, including healthy recipes, activity challenges, post-trauma support, legal, debt, and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways, and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture encouraging ideas to help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care, backed by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding annually
• The pride of working for an organization committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with most services rated good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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 everyday purchases, cashback, and voucher offers for treats for you and your loved ones
• 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 support for your mental and physical wellbeing, including healthy recipes, activity challenges, post-trauma support, legal, debt, and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways, and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture encouraging ideas to help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care, backed by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding annually
• The pride of working for an organization committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with most services rated good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.

Ideal Candidate

Essential

• NVQ 3 in health or social care or recognized 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 1 year experience working with children with complex health needs
• Minimum of 1 year working with children in other settings, e.g., nursery, respite service

Other requirements: the successful applicant will need to be a car driver.

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and a disclosure check is required to ensure suitability.