Children's Community Nursing Health Care Assistant - Truro, United Kingdom - Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Truro, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Children's Community Nursing Health Care Assistant:

Band 3:

Main area

Health Care Assistant

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Grade

Band 3

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Contract

Permanent

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Hours

Full time hours per week (Hours to be worked Monday to Friday)

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Job ref

Site

Truro Health Park

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Town

Truro

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Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
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Salary period

Yearly

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Closing

22/08/2023 23:59

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Interview date

08/09/2023Thank you for your interest in joining us at
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

_ Strategic Themes_

_ Great Care_
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

_Great Organisation_
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

_Great People_
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

_Great Partner_
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a 'home' office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._

Job overview:

This is an opportunity for a dynamic individual to join the children's community nursing teams in a newly created role, that is part of the wider service transformation.

The post holder will support the Children's Community Nurses (CCN's), Special School Nurses (SSN's) and Paediatric Epilepsy Nurse Specialists (PENS) with providing high quality, holistic, family centred care for children/young people with a variety of different nursing needs including; long term conditions and complex needs, life limiting conditions, palliative care and acute short term nursing interventions.

The post holder could be required to work anywhere in Cornwall to meet the needs of the commissioned service.

The service is moving to a 7 day week provision including bank holidays.

This role will be predominantly Monday to Friday, but there may be an expectation to support at weekends as required.

Whilst previous experience of working with children and young people is essential for this role, any additional skills training will be provided, with regular supervision and continuous development opportunities.

Main duties of the job:

The post holder will protect, safeguard and promote the wellbeing of children in accordance with 'The Children Act' and 'Working Together to Safeguard Children'

To assist in the provision of nursing care to children/ young people in the community, regularly working without direct supervision but as a member of the proactive nursing team.

To assist in the completion of patient and routine records, report information to the registered nurse on progress of child/young person and any variance/change in their care management.

To obtain blood and other relevant samples from children and young People through either venous or capillary as requested for testing in the community.

To support with the delivery of equipment/ consumables to families.

Working for our organisation:

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us.

As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes