Senior Children's Support Assistant - Tadworth, United Kingdom - The Children's Trust

The Children's Trust

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Tadworth, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

You will lead shifts and will deliver care (including giving medicines dispensed by our pharmacy) to the Children and Young People allocated to them (not IV or injections).

There is always a senior registered nurse on site for clinical and managerial support.

We recognise that the specialised needs of our Children and Young People mean that most people we recruit will require additional training.

We will recruit people with a relevant background in health or care and offer training to meet the competencies required by us and in accordance with the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF).

CSAs recruited with the intention of developing into a Senior CSA role will be in a probationary period of six months to allow time for this.

They can be promoted to a Senior CSA level as soon as they have achieved the competencies if this takes less time.

The competencies will cover all aspects of the day-to-day care of our Children and Young People according to their care plan - including personal care, eating and drinking, emotional care, communication, moving and handling, recreational and social activities, and giving medications.

It will also include learning the requirements of managing the House for a shift. A development programme will be tailored to each person depending on their previous experience and learning needs.

Staff benefits include London weighting, shuttle bus, and moreRead more below

Interviews:
Every Tuesday and Thursday morning

Terms and Conditions

_ Strictly no agencies, please._

As we often receive high levels of applicants for our roles, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interviews. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for an interview on this occasion._

About Us

The Children's Trust is the UK's leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.

Staff Benefits

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including, adoption pay, time off for fertility treatment, enhanced paternity leave, paid carers leave, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms, time off for gender reassignment.

We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.

Rehabilitation of Offender's

We comply with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) code of practice and have a written policy on the recruitment of applicants with criminal records, both of which are available on request.

NHS Covid Pass

The Children's Trust has a duty of care to minimise the risk of all infectious diseases to the vulnerable and extremely vulnerable children and young people in our care, as well as our employees and volunteers.

As a result, we require staff to provide a valid NHS Covid Pass (or proof of Covid vaccinations or medical exemption) for all roles at Tadworth Court and in the Brain Injury Community Service.

We also expect staff to have taken or be willing to take relevant immunisations required by the role to protect them against infectious diseases, (unless you are medically exempt).

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