Paediatric Family Care Assistant | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 19 Medi 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 19 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Bedford, MK42 9DJ |
| Cwmni: | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7435311/418-AHP5311-SJ |
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Bedford Hospital is offering an exciting opportunity for a compassionate and dedicated individual to join our team as a Family Care Assistant. This Band 3 role plays a vital part in supporting patients and their families across a variety of care settings within the Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
As a Family Care Assistant, you will contribute to the delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate care. Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, you’ll help maintain a supportive environment for patients and their families, ensuring dignity, comfort, and respect are upheld at all times.
If you’re looking for a meaningful role where you can make a real difference in people’s lives, we encourage you to apply and become part of our caring and committed team.
To assist the trained staff in the delivery of care to children and their families, ensuring the highest possible standards of care are received by children and their families / carers while on the unit, under the supervision of qualified staff.
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job
The Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this job, please review for the full details and responsibilities
· Following a period of training, you will carry out basic observations and admission assessments of babies, children and young people (BCYP) under the supervision of a qualified nurse/nurse associate.
· Following a period of training, you will carry out basic phlebotomy skills on babies, children and young people (BCYP) under the supervision of a qualified nurse/nurse associate.
· You will use EPR to record observations under the supervision of a qualified nurse/nurse associate.
· You will support BCYP, in collaboration with their parents and carers in providing basic hygiene needs.
· You will support BCYP in collaboration with their parents and carers in providing food, fluids and other basic nutritional requirements (including patients with eating disorders).
This advert closes on Friday 3 Oct 2025