Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative carer
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 820-7212172-CF
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lansdowne Health Centre
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £24,625 - £25,674 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 3 Palliative Carer
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, compassionate and motivated Palliative Carer to join the Children’s Palliative Care Team working with children and young people to work with life limiting/life threatening conditions that have Continuing Healthcare funding. All of the children/young people will have identified complex healthcare needs and/or learning disability and all will be being managed on a Palliative Care pathway.
We are looking for someone who is committed to offer an exceptional level of care with the focus being on quality of life and enabling children and young people to reach their full potential in their chosen place of care.
Flexibility and previous experience of working with children and young people with the commitment to further develop your own skills and knowledge in the area of complex healthcare needs is desired.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high quality, safe, equitable and efficient service to children registered with the Children’s Palliative Care Team.
Providing interventional support to children, young people and their families in the home environment, nursery, school (main stream and special school settings) and other community settings.
A high number of these children will be considered to be very fragile and in the end stages of their life, this will involve independent and team working, clinical competency, for example, administering enteral feeds and medications.
Maximising quality of life through using play and memory making. Liaison with all professionals known to the child and family including contributing where appropriate to Education and Health Care Plans and Safeguarding discussions and Continuing Healthcare assessment and review.
Successful candidate will be expected to take part in the auditing of this role with the potential to further develop this way of working across other services.
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
- Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To work in partnership with children and young people and their families to deliver planned episodes of care through Continuing Healthcare Funding where it has been agreed the Children’s Palliative Care team will provide this support.
- To provide nursing care and intervention to children and young people inside or outside of the family home including agreed community settings and schools dependent on clinical needs identified and the appropriateness of this delegation.
- To demonstrate competence in nominated clinical tasks following an appropriate programme of training. This will include seizure management, airway management using suction and oxygen, tracheostomy management, enteral feeding and management of feeding devices, administration of medications via oral, enteral, rectal and inhalation routes, intermittent catheterization including accessing of Mitrofanoff and end of life care.
- To support a child/young person to die in their or their family’s place of choice, assisting with basic nursing care/delegated interventions ensuring dignity, care and compassion is of the highest priority.
- Any intervention will be agreed with parents/nursing team and a signed clinical competency will be undertaken. Care will be evaluated by the named keyworker assigned to the child/young person on a regular basis. Any concerns around effectiveness of care/intervention/deterioration must be escalated to the named keyworker/team accordingly.
We would encourage anyone considering applying for this post to visit the team prior to application and interview and to discuss the role with Rebecca Carless, Team Leader for Children’s Community Nursing, Palliative Care and Rapid Response.
07784 007 462
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name
Rebecca Carless
Job title
Team Leader for Children’s Community Nursing, Palliative Care and Rapid Response.
Telephone number
0121 245 5775/ 07784 007 462
Person specification
Qualifications / training
Essential criteria
- Minimum of NVQ 3 in Caring for Children and Young People, NNEB or equivalent.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience or an interest in supporting children/young people and their families with a life limiting/life threatening condition throughout their palliative care journey.
- Experience of play/interaction with children/young people with or without disability.
Desirable criteria
- Experience with caring for children/young people with complex healthcare needs
- Experience of working in the community.
- Significant experience as Nursery nurse, Carer or Family Support Worker in health, social care,short breaks or education setting
Skills/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of managing children with physical and learning disabilities.
- Contact and communicate effectively to members of the multidisciplinary team
- To have the ability to be able to communicate effectively with children/young people and their families from diverse backgrounds with different stages of child development/learning ability
- Able to report back in a factual and concise manner to multidisciplinary team.
- An understanding of personal/profession al boundaries.
- Knowledge of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
- Knowledge of record keeping.
- Good knowledge and understanding of Basic IT skills.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to act in accordance to emergency plans and procedures
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Motivated, enthusiastic and able to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Flexible attitude to meet the needs of the children and families we manage and support.
- To be able to demonstrate care and compassion to support through the palliative care journey
- Motivated and enthusiastic in maximising quality of life through memory making and supporting the child/young person to reach their full potential.
Other job requirements
Essential criteria
- Good interpersonal skills in order to facilitate good relationships with children, young people, their families and other professionals
- Good basic level of written and verbal English language and numeracy skills and excellent communication skills.
- Much of the work with children with complex health needs and learning disabilities can be physically demanding and will also involve regular fine motor skill activity therefore a good level of physical health and ability is recommended
- Ability to remain calm and composed
- Ability to travel to a variety of community settings by specified times – car owner and regular user with clean/ low points driving license.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Carless
- Job title
- Team Leader for Children's Community Nursing
- Telephone number
- 07784 007 462
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