Children's Healthcare Worker-Domiciliary

Role: Children's Health Care Worker- Domiciliary

Location: Greater Manchester  - Within the Community

Role Type: (Full-time or Part-time)

Salary: £12 per hourly rate

Lagan’s Foundation is an established provider of specialist home healthcare to children across the Northwest of England.

We are excited to invite the right candidate to join our amazing and inspirational, award-winning team, to help grow and reach new families across Greater Manchester  in line with our growth and development strategy.

The Opportunity

Children’s Health Care Worker

Location: Greater Manchester

Role Type: Variable hours

Hourly rate: £12

Lagan’s Foundation is an established provider of specialist home healthcare to children with in the community and their own home.

We are excited to invite the right candidate to join our amazing and inspirational, award-winning team, to help grow and reach new families in line with our growth and development strategy.

The Opportunity

As a Children’s Health Care Worker, you’ll join our internal care team team helping to deliver a first-class care service. Working in collaboration with our existing Care Team, you will deliver care to children aged 0 to 19 years, within their own homes and in the community. You will promote positive life experiences and choices and make memories with children who may have short lives.

You’ll be responsible for delivering high quality care. You’ll build strong relationships with other carers and staff within Lagan’s Foundation and the families to provide exceptional care at every stage and promote internally and externally the amazing work the charity offers through donated and commissioned care streams.

Key accountabilities of our Children’s Health Care Worker will also include:

• To complete Level 2 TQUK Care for children and infants with heart defects and feeding difficulties.
• Complete induction training
• Maintaining a positive, honest and transparent personality
• Attend team meetings to share best practice, resolve challenges and offer morale support to others and continue team building
• Complete ongoing 6-weekly supervisions
• Always remain compliant
• Mentoring / buddying new members of staff following completion of probation
• Working to proactively to source additional activities for the children to engage with during term and non-term time.
• Providing exceptional care including feedback within dedicated communication channels for staff and managers and completion of visit records and any other necessary documents

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for individuals who hold the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience working with children and young people
• Clean Enhanced DBS-Child and Adult Workforce
• Ability to embrace change
• Have a positive, honest and transparent personality at all times.
• Good understanding of the Care Quality Commission and what / why it regulates.
• Effective prioritisation & time management
• Strong work ethic
• Ability to build and establish effective relationships
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative busy team environment
• Confident & skilled communicator (verbal & written)
• Customer service orientated
• Good attention to detail
• Resilient
• Strong planning and organisational skills
• Proficient in relevant computer applications
• Ideally, you’ll hold or be willing to /actively working towards L3 Health and Social Care
• Full Driving Licence with own car (business use car insurance is essential we will not advance anyone, without this, to the next stage).
• Passion to embrace the charity vision and values

This role will also involve travel across Greater Manchester therefore a full driving licence and own car with business use insurance cover is essential for the role.

What’s In It For You

• 28 days holiday inc statutory bank holidays
• Pension Scheme
• Hospital Saturday Fund – Health Cash Plan
• Blue Light Card Eligibility
• Flex Benefits including salary sacrifice scheme

Be Yourself

Lagan’s Foundation embraces Diversity and Inclusion. We celebrate what makes us different, as well as what we have in common. This enables us to work better as one team shaping a dynamic, innovative and inclusive culture.

Lagan’s Foundation is a Disability Confident Committed employer so if you require any reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process, please get in touch and let us know. We’re also happy to discuss flexible working options should the role accommodate it.