Job Introduction
Are you passionate about making a positive difference in the lives of children, young people, and their families? We are looking for a compassionate and motivated Children's Support Worker to join our Children's Continence Team.
The post holder will provide support to the Registered Nurses in delivering nursing care, support, training, health advice, and education to children, young people, their families, and carers within the home and community setting. They will work in close partnership with a range of statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure coordinated, high-quality care.
The role will also support children and young people to express their views in an individually appropriate way, ensuring their opinions are considered in the development of services.
The successful candidate will work under the direction of the Registered Nurse.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
This is a part-time role working 22.5 hours per week based at Saltway Centre, Pearl Rd, Middleleaze, Swindon SN5 5TD
The ideal candidate will have:
Essential:
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Experience of working with children with additional needs
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Experience of supporting children with bladder and bowel needs
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Able to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary interagency team.
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Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
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Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
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Ability to prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands and meeting deadlines.
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Commitment to client-centred practice.
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Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments.
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Ability to communicate effectively complex and sensitive written and verbal information.
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Ability to maintain accurate records within professional and organisational guidelines and process.
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Basic IT skills (or willingness to learn)
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Experience of working within the community/primary care setting.
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Ability to travel to meet the needs of the job.
Desirable:
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Care certificate or willingness to undertake
Package Description
As a Children's Continence Support Worker, you’ll be part of our valued team based at Saltway Centre. You will feel valued as a Children's Continence Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
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A salary of £25,500 - £27,098 Pro Rata with access to our group pension
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Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
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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
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Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
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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
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Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
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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
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.
