Job overview

To provide practical and emotional support to Children and siblings. 

•           To work in liaison with other family/ sibling support services to ensure multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working, to enable a seamless system for children and families. 

•           To provide practical and emotional support to the siblings and immediate family following a child’s death. 

•           To work closely with team members using your own initiative, good organisational leadership and time management skills.

Main duties of the job

To guide and assist the nurses & short break facilitators in assessing the emotional needs of the child and immediate family. 
Developing an individualised plan of care. 
Enabling the short break facilitators to provide distraction techniques utilising therapeutic, sensory and developmental play activities. 
To attend and contribute to team meetings, case load updates and meetings relevant to the child.
To participate in the development of projects which lead to service improvements 
To liaise and create links with the mortuary, funeral directors, and other agencies as part of end of life care for child and immediate family.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.