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Associate Practitioner - Childrens continuing care team
NHS AfC: Band 4
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Do you want to make a positive impact to the lives of children, young people and their families as well as your colleagues within your role?
Come and be part of an inclusive, caring and compassionate children's continuing care team where you can enhance and enrich the lives of children and young people and their families as well as your colleagues.
The Lifetime Service is a joint Community Children’s Nursing and Psychology Service for Children and young people with life limiting, life threatening conditions, and those who meet Children’s Continuing Care criteria. The team is based in Kingswood Hub, South Gloucestershire and currently provides a service across four Integrated care board (ICB) areas, Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire, supporting children aged 0-19 and their families. The Children’s Continuing Care Team also provide a small service in B&NES. The post holder needs the ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service to cover a 7-day period covering 365 days per year if and when the Service requires. This involves both day and night working, night shifts are 22.00-07:00 unless in exceptional circumstances |
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
The purpose of this role is to predominantly work in the continuing care team to undertake clinical shifts usually working alongside the Lifetime support workers (LSW) in the child’s home or school setting. To observe their clinical competencies and undertake annual clinical assessments of the LSW’s to enable them to undertake the clinical interventions to the children and their families who meet Continuing Care Criteria (Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset, and B&NES). |
This role will undertake the line management of LSW’s which includes providing training and assessment to a large team of LSW, having 6 weekly one to one meetings and Performance development reviews as well as supporting attendance reviews in accordance with Sirona’s policies and procedures.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.
We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.
Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.
We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.
Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.
Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.
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Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role and can only accept applications from UK based applicants.
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Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Level 2 maths and English
- Nursing Associate registration
Meini prawf dymunol
- NVQ level 3 in health and social care
Skills experience and knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Extensive experience of working as a support worker in a community environment
- • Experience of working with children with complex health needs
- • Experience in performing safe and effective clinical skills eg: Tracheostomy care, monitoring and recording vital observations and interpreting results, suctioning, enteral feeding
- • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- • Ability to manipulate fine tools, e.g., for Venepuncture and other clinical tasks
- • Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate and the ability to take part in reflective practice, clinical supervision activities and apply research to practice
- • Knowledge of Clinical governance processes (e.g., audit)
- • Knowledge of Information governance (e.g., data protection)
- • Knowledge of Mental capacity, deprivation of liberty and safeguarding children and adults
- • Knowledge of the Principles of infection control
- • Knowledge of Equality, diversity, and anti-discriminatory practice
- • Knowledge of Applying evidence-based practice in line with research
- • Evidence of up-to-date clinical skills relevant to the position or willingness to undertake
- • Range of IT skills including electronic communication and clinical records systems
- • Ability to work unsupervised
- • Positive approach to change and supporting others through change
- • Ability to work in partnership with the team and others
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Line management experience
- • Local geographical knowledge
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Sarah Taylor
- Teitl y swydd
- Team Lead, Childrens continuing care team
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0300 1245916
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Please reach out for an informal discussion to obtain more information about the role.
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