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The Children's community team are looking for a enthusiastic Band 3 Health care support worker to join their small dynamic team.

The Children’s Community Support Worker will be responsible for providing a range of clinical health care to children and young people with complex and acute nursing needs in their own homes and within the community setting.

The post holder will be expected to work with the nursing teams and wider MDT deliver high quality care. They will also be expected to work independently under the direction of a registered nurse

Flexibility is required to ensure service needs are met as well as the ability to drive with access to own car

MAIN DUTIES/KEY RESULT AREAS

• has responsibility for care of equipment and resources used by self or others
• contributes to the effectiveness of teams
• will be expected to understand basic reflective techniques to enhance their self-awareness and to develop resilience when facing adverse situations. They must be able to report back on any difficult situations encountered to enable support and guided learning to be offered
• will offer a range of care to children and young people in a variety of community settings. Examples may include undertaking weight monitoring, enteral support feeding and phlebotomy
• will follow plans of care, undertaking defined clinical procedures or therapeutic interventions, recording care given appropriately and reporting back progress or deterioration to the registered practitioner
• will exercise a degree of autonomy as they are working alone whilst recognising the limits of their competence and working to the Trust HCSW Code of Conduct
• must be skilled in communicating with children and young people and their families, acting as advocates when necessary within their delegated workload will be able to prioritise, plan and organise their work
• must be able to work effectively in a team that may include disciplines other than nursing and participate in team development, design and development of service improvements and a range of quality assurance activities, including involvement with audits.

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehalth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven college and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace out 'Right Care' behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make these part of our DNA.

For further details and full details of the role please see the attached job description and person specification attached