medical assistant Nottingham, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work with a dedicated and professional team of nurses and nursing assistants in Oakfield Special school for children from 3-19years.
You will be trained to care for complex children who require medical support and intervention to help them access school and education. You will work 1:1 with a child each day during term time enabling the child or young person to access their education. All training will be provided and will be specific to the child you are caring for.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
You will care for a complex health needs child /young person delivering all their health needs to enable them to attend education. This may be chest physio, suction or care of a tracheostomy. You will meet nutritional needs by learning to gastrostomy feed children. This is just a few examples and you will be taught many skills for caring.
