Bank Children's Continuing Care Assistant Band 3

We are looking for experienced continuing care assistants to support children and young people with complex needs, in their homes, at night. You will be expected to provide excellent clinical care and intervention to enable parents/carers to get some respite. You will be working alone, offering 1-1 support to the most complex children and young people for a 10-hour period. You will need to build rapport with the child or young person and their family to ensure they get the personalised care they need. You need to have experience of completing tasks such as tracheostomy management, ventilation management, enteral feeding, seizure management, patient handling, personal cares, and medicines management. At Oxleas, we will offer you training to develop on these skills and be able to perform them with confidence as a lone worker. You will have the support of the clinical skills trainers, and senior nurses within the team to ensure you feel well supported, and competent in the tasks we are asking you to complete. This is an exciting opportunity to work with the most complex children and young people and make a difference to their lives., As a band 3 children's continuing care assistant, your main roles and responsibilities will be to ensure the child or young person is safe, and well over night. In turn, you will ensure parents and carers get the respite they need to be able to care for their children/young people in the day. This is a very clinical role, and the expectation is that you will work alone, at night, offering 1-1 care. The needs of each child or young person will vary, and you will work between various packages supporting different people. The tasks you will be expected to complete include: 1. Observations using PEWS format and recognising the deteriorating child/young person. 2. Following specialist care plans to ensure the needs of the child/young person are met. 3. Completing initial equipment checks, and cleaning to maintain a safe environment. 4. To take and give thorough handovers at the start and end of the shift. 5. To complete clinical intervention which may include tracheostomy management, ventilation management, respiratory intervention such as suction, medicinesmanagement, enteral feeding, seizure management, personal care, patient handling, and comforting interaction with children and young people when they are distressed. 6. You will maintain a high standard of clinical work when carrying out interventions.

Oxleas - About Us Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care