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.
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+ 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., + To contribute to the provision of high-quality verbal and written clinical reports in relation to defined care and management plans and in line with related policy and procedures
+ To actively access and participate in clinical supervision and support process enabling the development of a range of skills to enhance therapeutic activities, observation and communication skills.
+ To co-work in defined formal therapy group work and education activities with the support and guidance of the multi-disciplinary team.
+ To follow agreed policies and protocols.
+ To organise and deliver on defined activities on a daily and weekly basis in line with assessment and treatment goals for individual and groups of children.
+ To report on any needs around staffing or other aspects in relation to planned activities you are responsible for as they arise.
+ To support the team in the provision of a safe and healthy environment autonomous.
This is not an exhaustive list but gives an indication of the types of tasks you will be expected to autonomously undertake or ensure completion daily:
+ Meal planning/ order to kitchens.
+ Outcome/feedback forms from children and their carers
+ Identify and ensure supplies maintained - bread, milk, basic stores, linen etc.
+ General filing - nurse office.
+ Keeping storage areas clean, tidy and safe.
+ Basic emergency file/checks
+ To ensure personal training and development needs are defined and met in line with the service learning/development/competency requirements for band 3 staff and in line with the agreed PDP processes. This includes developing skills in providing evidence-based practice through professional study and participation of tasks related to research and audit.
+ To actively participate in, and at times contribute to, team training and development programme.
+ To provide mentor role to new support staff working in the service and support their ongoing development needs under the direction of the clinical and assistant clinical leads.
We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.
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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients' homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site., 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 our Innovation 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.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We're also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
+ Great flexible working opportunities
+ Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
+ Generous annual leave and pension scheme
+ Extensive staff health and well-being programmes