Specialist Carer - Band 3 (Part-time)

NHS; Chipping Barnet; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job description

This role may be perfect for you if you are currently, or have been, a Healthcare Assistant and are looking for a part-time role. Here, you'll have the opportunity to build on your experience and be trained to a more specialist level.

Please contact us to discuss the role and hours in more detail.

You will have experience working with babies, children, and young people in a health, education, or social setting.

Aside from experience, we look for individuals who share our core values of kindness, excellence, and courage. We’ll support you to go above and beyond to be there for the children and families we support – we ask that you share this mission with us.

You’ll thrive working autonomously, and once you’ve received your training, you’ll be confident in your ability to deliver care on your own in the community. You’ll know the value of collaboration and will work closely with your team members, other healthcare professionals, and the families you support to provide the very best care.

You will be available to work a variety of shifts, including days, evenings, nights, and weekends. You will have a full UK driving license and access to your own car. You will be paid for travel time, reimbursed for car parking, and will have a generous mileage allowance.

You will adhere to policies and procedures at all times, underpinned by competency in clinical skills.

Main duties of the job

We’re expanding our team and are looking for more Specialist Carers to join our charity. You’ll be joining an award-winning, certified Outstanding team, who do all they can to empower children and families to experience as much life as possible.

As a Specialist Carer, you’ll provide life-changing care for babies, children, and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. You’ll do this by working in collaboration with their family, multidisciplinary teams, and your other Noah’s Ark colleagues.

You’ll be encouraged to put the experience of children and families at the heart of all you do. As well as understanding their clinical needs, you’ll get to know what’s important to each child you support. Whether it’s knowing what their favourite song to listen to is, how they like to play, or what soothes them when they are sad - at Noah’s Ark it’s so important that each child is treated as an individual. You’ll focus on what children can do, rather than their limitations, and will support them to experience things they may never have thought possible.

By providing care for children, either at our state-of-the-art building, The Ark, or out in the community, you’ll be allowing parents and carers to take some time for themselves. The hours of care you’ll provide will make a huge difference, allowing them to live life outside of their child’s condition. By creating this time, you’ll be creating choice – something which can feel impossible for the families we support.

Your commitment to children and families will continue through to end-of-life care. You’ll be a guiding, reassuring presence for families and work with other healthcare professionals to create as much comfort as possible.

Qualifications

• Minimum of GCSE grade C in English and Maths (or equivalent)
• QCF/NVQ level 2 or 3 health/health and social care (or equivalent) or willingness to complete
• Care Certificate

Skills / Knowledge / Experience

• Experience of working with or caring for babies, children, or young people in a health, education, or social setting
• Experience of providing play and fun when caring for babies, children, and young people.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good organisational skills with the ability to manage your own caseload
• Ability to undertake ongoing competency-based training and assessment of complex nursing care
• Experience working with babies, children, and young people with life-threatening and life-limiting conditions, including children with special needs.
• Knowledge of care provision and values at Noah's Ark.
• Experience of using medical equipment such as hoists, feed pumps, and suction machines.

Behavioural / Personal

• Kind, caring, and committed to providing high-quality care.
• Enthusiastic and keen to learn.
• Flexible availability to work unsocial hours including evenings, nights, weekends, and last-minute changes.
• Confidence and initiative to work alone in different home environments and also work effectively as part of a team.
• Willing to work in a palliative care setting.
• A mature approach to personal and professional boundary setting with children, young people, and their families.
• Live Noah's Ark's values which include kindness, courage, and excellence.

Miscellaneous

• Enhanced DBS with Child & Adult Barring.
• Willing to undergo Occupational Health Assessment and receive immunisations where applicable.
• Full UK driving license
• Provide evidence of right to work in the UK.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£28,214 to £29,795 a year pending pay review.