Overview
We are recruiting for a Children's Community Clinical Support Worker who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Children's Continuing Care Team provides specialised, child specific respite service to children and their families with complex health needs/profound disabilities in the child's own home throughout East & North Hertfordshire.
Clinical Support Workers will be responsible for independently delivering specialist nursing care within the family home without direct supervision. All necessary training will be given with ongoing facilitation from qualified nurses.
Please review the attached 'week in the life' document which will give you an insight into the role of a Children's Community Support Worker. Please note night shifts will be expected in this role.
In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 5% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,258 and a maximum payment of £2,121 per annum pro rata.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
You will undertake all necessary training in order to provide nursing care to children with complex health needs within the family home in an unsupervised capacity.
Undertaking such skills as enteral feeding, c/o tracheostomies, c/o children who are long term ventilated, seizure management, oxygen administration.
Work collaboratively and co-operatively with others to meet the needs of patients and their families.
Participate in the development of self and others.
About East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
We are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
* Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Feb 2026.
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