Community Health Care Assistant Liverpool, England
Job description
There is an exciting opportunity to join and established team. Multiple vacancies are available to be part of a team providing care to complex needs children in the community.
Homecare is provision of bespoke care packages commissioned by local Integrated Care Boards (ICB) to provide care for children/young people with complex needs. Homecare is a branch of the Integrated Children’s Community Nursing team (ICCNT) at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. Carers provide a seamless service and act as an advocate for the child/young person (C/YP) and their family 24/7 Monday to Sunday in their own home or community setting
Develop and maintain clinical competence and skills by undertaking a competency-based training programme, with assessment and re-assessment at regular intervals.
- Provide close observation of the highly dependent child.
- Maintain and meet dietary requirements including enteral feeds according to policy and training.
- Learn clinical skills specific to the child including ventilation and tracheostomy competencies, enteral feeding via gastrostomy or jejunostomy, oxygen therapy, medication administration, oral – nasopharyngeal suctioning, saturation observations, and basic observations.
- Undertake interventions e.g., physiotherapy
- To carry out all aspects of care according to set guidelines, policies and procedures after completion of a competency-based training programme.
- Maintain written clinical records using Trust documentation.
- Work in partnership with the multidisciplinary team according to the care plan under the guidance and delegation of appropriate professionals.
- Communicate effectively with the child and family acting as an advocate when needed.
- Communicate efficiently with all professionals to provide a seamless service
- To work in conjunction with the family, teachers, other carers, long term ventilation team and other health care professionals to ensure a holistic approach to the child’s care, wherever it is needed, and working without direct supervision.
We are committed to continually improving for the benefit of our patients.
We are open and honest and engage everyone we meet with a smile.
We show that we value every individual for who they are and their contribution.
We work across the Alder Hey community in teams that are built on friendship, dedication, care and reassurance.
Homecare is provision of bespoke care packages commissioned by local Integrated Care Boards (ICB) to provide care for children/young people with complex needs. Homecare is a branch of the Integrated Children’s Community Nursing team (ICCNT) at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. Carers provide a seamless service and act as an advocate for the child/young person (C/YP) and their family 24/7 Monday to Sunday in their own home or community setting
