Children's Continuing Care Assistant | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,651 - £31,312 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 06 March 2026 |
| Location: | London, SE2 0AS |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7779474/277-7779474-CYP |
Summary
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The Community Children’s Nursing team is part of an integrated network of services for children in Greenwich providing high quality, specialist child centred care.
The team of specialist & generic children’s community nurses provide highly skilled, nursing care to children & families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.
The Continuing Care Assistant would work with all members of the team where a child required an individualised package of care to provide direct clinical care to named individual babies, children & young people aged 0-19 years with complex health needs including severe learning disabilities and life limiting, life threatening conditions in their home & in various community settings.
This service is provided by the children’s community nursing team to deliver 24 hours holistic care on a rota basis using individualised single care plans that have been written by the Lead Continuing Care nurse for a named child. Work will be supervised by an Assistant Practitioner & competency based training will be provided by the Clinical Skills Nurse. Nursing duties will be delegated by the Assistant practitioner & the nurses within the Team. The Continuing Care Assistants report any changes in the child’s condition as stated in the care plan to the lead Continuing Care Nurse or a nurse in the Team.
Key Task and Responsibilities
• To work as a member of the children’s community nursing team providing packages of care for named individual children with complex health care needs in their home.
• To ensure that children receive the planned play and stimulation related to their emotional developmental needs in the home and community setting.
• To encourage and maintain high standards of personal care, including hygiene for all babies, children and young people.
• To carry out duties, within good practice guidelines, involving the Assistant Practitioner and Lead Continuing Care nurse when required.
• To work as part of a team offering support and advice to families within own scope of practice.
• To be competent in working with equipment in the home. For example feeding pumps, administration of emergency medication and use of hoists.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re
• We Listen
• We Care
Clinical
• To carry out care plans developed by the Lead Continuing Care nurse and supervised by the Assistant Practitioner.
• To undertake skilled clinic tasks following competency based training for named children for whom they provide care; for example tracheostomy care, enteral feeding (naso-gastric/Gastrostomy/jejunostomy), suctioning, changing oxygen probes and basic life support.
• To be familiar with all equipment required to support the child and to report any deficiency immediately.
• To carry out and record defined safety checks of technical equipment during each shift reporting any issues to the family and Assistant Practitioner.
• To identify concerns and report to the continuing care nurse.
• To implement agreed individual programmes of care and act as key worker if required.
• To carry out duties, within good practice guidelines and involving senior clinicians where required.
• To check and maintain a safe environment and equipment when working.
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Feb 2026
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