Job Introduction
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Support Worker to join the Community Children's Learning Disability Service's.
The successful candidate will have a experience in supporting children with learning disabilities.
This is a part time role for 22.5 hours a week. Our service hours are Monday to Friday 9-5pm.
Main Responsibility
Working closely with our Registered Learning Disability Nurses in the region of Bath and North East Somerset.
You’ll support the nurses with meeting the needs of the children with learning disabilities. This will include supporting with admin tasks, supporting the nurses with observations in home visits or educational settings. Supporting families with advice, resources and care plans written by the nurses as appropriate. Working within a hub, hybrid or school environment.
You’ll care for children and their families in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work. You will need to raise all care matters relating to the child and family and follow all safeguarding procedures.
Our teams are based at St Martins BA2 5RP. There will be an expectation to be able travel to home visits, school locations as required across BaNES. Mileage is paid.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have knowledge of children with learning disabilities. You will have knowledge of child protection procedures and strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences every stage of the children's healthcare journey.
So why not click apply to find out where your journey with HCRG Care Group can take you! If you’d like to discuss the role further, please contact Naomi Dawson (Clinical Lead) via Naomi.Dawson@hcrgcaregroup.com
Package Description
As a Community Children's Learning Disability Support Worker, you’ll be part of our valued team in Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES) in St Martins Hospital BA2 5RP.
You will feel valued as a Community Children's Learning Disability Support Worker, within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £23,100 pro-rata with group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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 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
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
