Description
Join HCRG Care Group as a Senior Community Carer, where you'll play a key role in delivering safe, high-quality care to children with complex medical needs in their own homes and within the community.
As a Senior Community Carer, you'll bring your knowledge and experience to guide and mentor colleagues, support service development, and work closely with families and multidisciplinary teams to ensure every child's care is personalised and effective.
Main Responsibilities
- Deliver consistent, high-quality care to children and young people with complex health needs, following care plans and safeguarding procedures.
- Communicate clearly and compassionately with children, families, and multidisciplinary colleagues, adjusting your approach where communication barriers exist.
- Maintain professional boundaries and promptly escalate concerns or changes in a child's condition to the Clinical Case Manager.
- Ensure the availability and safe use of clinical equipment, including ventilators, feeding pumps, oxygen monitors, and other medical devices.
- Develop and maintain advanced clinical competencies in tracheostomy care, ventilation, gastrostomy care, and other complex procedures.
- Administer medication safely and accurately, ensuring all care is appropriately recorded.
- Work independently as a lone worker, managing and prioritising your workload while seeking guidance where required.
- Provide mentorship, support, and informal training to colleagues to help maintain a high standard of care across the service.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £27,674 plus Group Pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year