Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Healthcare
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term or Secondment for 12 months)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 270-TF164-ACS
- Employer
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sudborough House, St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- Kettering
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Healthcare Support Worker
Band 4
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Senior Support Worker to work within Specialist Children’s Services, working with the Community Paediatric team in North Northants. We work with children and young people, families, and carers alongside our colleagues in the community, acute, social and education settings.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will at times be lone working in other settings and we want to recruit a forward thinking, dynamic healthcare support worker into this fixed term / seconded position. The post holder will be part of a developing and progressing service working with colleagues who present with enthusiasm for innovative and high standards of practice and be able to work autonomously. As a healthcare support worker the post holder will be working alongside the nurses and community paediatricians who are responsible for managing children and young people’s health in the community, the role requires you work alongside children and young people and families/carers with varying needs, health needs, to support and to present health promotion sessions tailored to meet the needs of the individual, to carry out delegated appropriate tasks such as blood pressure monitoring, reviewing height and weight, supporting families to navigate through the health journey, work in collaboration with other agencies.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Application and Interview
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people
Desirable criteria
- Minimum of 4 years experience
Interview
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people with complex presentation
Desirable criteria
- Experience of SEND
Interview
Essential criteria
- Experience of health promotion
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Deirdre Heath
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07717889996
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