Job overview

This is a full-time fixed term position,  for a Specialist Support Worker in the Renal Unit to cover maternity leave who will provide a hospital based, Social Work service to children with all forms of kidney disease and their parents attending Birmingham Children’s hospital (BCH). 

The Renal Unit multi-professional team consists of a medical team , a surgical team of urologists and consultants in transplantation, a team of specialist nurses proficient in peritoneal and haemodialysis, and members from dietetics, play therapy, teaching, nursing, psychology, pharmacy and other allied therapies.

The Renal Unit has an extended Multidisciplinary Team which works closely with the transplant team from the University Hospital Birmingham Trust (UHBT). The Team provides an integrated transplant service for cadaveric ad living related kidney transplants.

The Specialist Support Worker will be part of the core team and have an important role in supporting the wider multi-professional team by assisting, guiding, and directing patients and their families, thereby enabling them to manage the many practical issues, including meeting legislative requirements related to complex treatments, generated by their specific disorder.

Main duties of the job

To provide a specialist, social work service to children, young people and their families attending the Renal Unit for management of all aspects of kidney disease, with a particular focus on those with chronic kidney disease requiring dialysis and transplantation.

To promote the well-being of this group of patients and help to achieve the best possible outcome of care.

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. 

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Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.