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Health Care Assistant - Paediatric Neurodisability Nursing Service
| Posting date: | 17 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,129 - £28,649 pa pro rata inc HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 July 2024 |
| Location: | South Croydon, CR2 6DF |
| Company: | Croydon Health Services |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6376196/199-6376196-RB-NA |
Summary
A Vacancy at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.
Paediatric Neurodisability Health Care Assistant
*A rare opportunity has arisen for a Band 3 to join our team of HCAs as part of the Paediatric Neurodisability Nursing Team at St Giles School*
Tulip- The Paediatric Neurodisability Nursing Service have a Special School Nursing Team based out of St Giles School. The role will support CYP with disabilities and complex health needs to attend school by delivering daily planned healthcare interventions. HCAs support with enteral feeding, catheter and stoma care, assisting the nurses with the delivery of respiratory symptom management plans and the administration of risk assessed medications during the school day. The role comes with training and support offering the completion of the HCA care certificate as part of the initial preceptorship period.
Additional non-clinical tasks include reviewing continence needs and product provision via the Tena, Indigo system, management of stock and equipment including Nutricia Homeward, monitoring and recording of regular heights and weights and support during the delivery of public health clinics held at the school.
Please note this role isMonday- Friday 36.5hrs per week term time onlyand the salary will therefore be pro rata at 86% of the total AFC Band 3 with HCAs outer London allowance.
The Paediatric Neurodisability Nursing Team provides co-ordination and case management of children with highly complex and unstable long-term conditions in partnership with health, education and social care organisations.
The aim of the service is to provide a dedicated specialist children’s nurse to promote standards of excellence and manage the clinical risk of complex, unstable and vulnerable children in the community within the context of family centred care thereby reducing the need for secondary care interventions.
The Special School Nursing Pathwayfacilitates children and young people with healthcare needs, between the ages of 2 and 19 years of age, to access the education curriculum. The Band 3 healthcare assistants support the staff nurses to provide nursing care to children and young people with complex medical needs and learning disabilities carrying out daily clinical care as allocated by the nurse in charge. The post holder will work between the special schools in Croydon and be based at St Giles School.
Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.
CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough’s only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team.
Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.
Our experienced staff take care of people of all ages across the borough of Croydon.
We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.
Join us and be a part of the team that is making Croydon proud.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESONSIBILITIES
1. Provide a high standard of nursing care to children with complex needs / additional medical needs in schools across CHS as requested by the registered nurse once trained and competency achieved.
2. Carry out risk assessed clinical care on a daily basis as allocated by the nursing staff, including but not inclusive of, enteral feeding, tracheostomy care, stoma care, catheterisation, suctioning and wound care.
3. Contribute to effective team work to best manage the delivery of care to children and young people who have additional medical needs or learning disabilities.
4. Maintain accurate paper and electronic records relating to client care as per CHS Policy.
5. Give advice to parents / carers, school staff and others within agreed parameters and appropriate to the scale of the post.
6. Re-assess and order incontinence products for the children at the Special Schools, with liaison with parents / carers.
7. Oversee stock checks alongside the team administrator and ensure appropriate levels of equipment is ordered via Nutricia and CHS procurement routes, ensure value for money for the Trust.
8. Assist with minor injuries and report to trained member of staff.
9. Help with the care of unwell children, record observations once trained and provide reassurance to the child. Escalate concerns to the registered nurse.
10. Assist with clinics held in the schools by undertaking
· Height and weight measuring
· General observations
Escort unwell children to hospital
This advert closes on Sunday 30 Jun 2024
Paediatric Neurodisability Health Care Assistant
*A rare opportunity has arisen for a Band 3 to join our team of HCAs as part of the Paediatric Neurodisability Nursing Team at St Giles School*
Tulip- The Paediatric Neurodisability Nursing Service have a Special School Nursing Team based out of St Giles School. The role will support CYP with disabilities and complex health needs to attend school by delivering daily planned healthcare interventions. HCAs support with enteral feeding, catheter and stoma care, assisting the nurses with the delivery of respiratory symptom management plans and the administration of risk assessed medications during the school day. The role comes with training and support offering the completion of the HCA care certificate as part of the initial preceptorship period.
Additional non-clinical tasks include reviewing continence needs and product provision via the Tena, Indigo system, management of stock and equipment including Nutricia Homeward, monitoring and recording of regular heights and weights and support during the delivery of public health clinics held at the school.
Please note this role isMonday- Friday 36.5hrs per week term time onlyand the salary will therefore be pro rata at 86% of the total AFC Band 3 with HCAs outer London allowance.
The Paediatric Neurodisability Nursing Team provides co-ordination and case management of children with highly complex and unstable long-term conditions in partnership with health, education and social care organisations.
The aim of the service is to provide a dedicated specialist children’s nurse to promote standards of excellence and manage the clinical risk of complex, unstable and vulnerable children in the community within the context of family centred care thereby reducing the need for secondary care interventions.
The Special School Nursing Pathwayfacilitates children and young people with healthcare needs, between the ages of 2 and 19 years of age, to access the education curriculum. The Band 3 healthcare assistants support the staff nurses to provide nursing care to children and young people with complex medical needs and learning disabilities carrying out daily clinical care as allocated by the nurse in charge. The post holder will work between the special schools in Croydon and be based at St Giles School.
Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.
CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough’s only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team.
Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.
Our experienced staff take care of people of all ages across the borough of Croydon.
We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.
Join us and be a part of the team that is making Croydon proud.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESONSIBILITIES
1. Provide a high standard of nursing care to children with complex needs / additional medical needs in schools across CHS as requested by the registered nurse once trained and competency achieved.
2. Carry out risk assessed clinical care on a daily basis as allocated by the nursing staff, including but not inclusive of, enteral feeding, tracheostomy care, stoma care, catheterisation, suctioning and wound care.
3. Contribute to effective team work to best manage the delivery of care to children and young people who have additional medical needs or learning disabilities.
4. Maintain accurate paper and electronic records relating to client care as per CHS Policy.
5. Give advice to parents / carers, school staff and others within agreed parameters and appropriate to the scale of the post.
6. Re-assess and order incontinence products for the children at the Special Schools, with liaison with parents / carers.
7. Oversee stock checks alongside the team administrator and ensure appropriate levels of equipment is ordered via Nutricia and CHS procurement routes, ensure value for money for the Trust.
8. Assist with minor injuries and report to trained member of staff.
9. Help with the care of unwell children, record observations once trained and provide reassurance to the child. Escalate concerns to the registered nurse.
10. Assist with clinics held in the schools by undertaking
· Height and weight measuring
· General observations
Escort unwell children to hospital
This advert closes on Sunday 30 Jun 2024