Healthcare assistant Eating Disorder Service

The Healthcare Assistant (HCA) is an integral member of the EDYs team. They will assist and support nursing, medical, and other professional staff in the delivery of high standards of holistic family centred care to children and families. Clinical tasks undertaken by the post holder will be ratified by the community division. The HCA and team manager are jointly responsible for ensuring competency. Clinical tasks undertaken will therefore be specific to the speciality, clinical area, or patient group. Working under agreed supervision and support structures and in line with defined care plans and related policies and procedures, utilising basic observation, therapeutic communication, and relationship skills, to support day-to-day working with children who have complex and challenging presentations, including working with families to ensure a collaborative approach.,

• To work collaboratively with the core team, to assist in or lead on defined tasks and activities in the day-to-day assessment and treatment of care needs.
• To undertake defined observations or tasks related to a particular child, or group of children, to inform the assessment and treatment process. This includes ensuring effective and timely communication of any information received including incident or personal observation which may affect the child's physical/mental well-being or increase risk to others.
• To assist and support the provision and further development of the therapeutic milieu through processes concerning active participating in risk assessment, risk management and therapeutic activity planning.
  
  As one of Europe's biggest and busiest children's hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions.In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children's medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world's leaders in children's healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children's specialists. Alongside this is ourInnovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies. We know that a children's hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.