Children's Support Worker

To work as a member of a team to carry out delegated tasks, to provide support tofamilies of children with complex care needs with regular support from the children'snurses in the continuing care team.To facilitate the delivery of therapy programmesTo ensure the children in your care are your first concern, treating them as individuals and respecting their dignity.Work with families to promote the child's wellbeing.Provide a high standard of care at all times while on shift meeting the individual needsof the child or young person.

To maintain up-to-date, accurate records, in-put work data into the computer and to provide written reports as requested.To participate in Rio, Care Flow training and ensure that IT systems are usedappropriately.To report accidents and incidents in accordance with health & safety policies.To maintain an up to date record of continuous professional development.To be responsible for ensuring an accurate and up to date annual leave record is available.

To participate in the User Audit process.To ensure that the privacy and dignity of children, young people and their families is maintained at all times.All information concerning patients/clients and staff must be treated as strictlyconfidential at all times.To ensure that children, young people and their families are included in the decisionmaking process.

You will be a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual with a willingness to complete a robust and in-depth training programme which is tailored around the health needs of the child or young person. You will receive ongoing training and support throughout your time with the team.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Whittington Health NHS Trust's Children's Continuing Care Team as a Band 3 Support Worker.

The Continuing Care Team provides care to children or young people, who are in receipt of a Continuing Care package within the London Boroughs of Islington, Camden and Haringey.

The successful applicant will join a dynamic team of Children's Nurses and other Community Support Workers who provide shifts for children and young people in their homes or educational community settings. These children and young people have complex health care needs. You will also have the opportunity to work in the paediatric acute setting., Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

This is a full-time post. Shift patterns are predominantly night shifts with some daytime activities with team days and training. The vacancy is a fixed term period of 12 month.