To provide practical and emotional support to children and siblings.
1. Work in liaison with other family/sibling support services to ensure multi-disciplinary and multi-agency collaboration, enabling a seamless system for children and families.
2. Provide practical and emotional support to siblings and immediate family following a child's death.
3. Work closely with team members, using initiative, good organisational, leadership, and time management skills.
4. Guide and assist nurses and short break facilitators in assessing the emotional needs of the child and immediate family.
5. Develop individualised care plans.
6. Enable short break facilitators to provide distraction techniques using therapeutic, sensory, and developmental play activities.
7. Attend and contribute to team meetings, case load updates, and relevant meetings.
8. Participate in project development to improve services.
9. Coordinate with the mortuary, funeral directors, and other agencies as part of end-of-life care for the child and immediate family.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, with a turnover of over £3bn, creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients served annually.
Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services across Manchester, Trafford, and beyond, we promote collaborative working and transformation, offering our 30,000 staff the opportunity to pursue ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts aspire to emulate, providing a scale of opportunity that is extraordinary.
We have developed a digitally enabled organisation to enhance clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational efficiency, and innovation through systems like Hive, our Electronic Patient Record launched in September 2022.
As a major academic research and education centre, we support high-quality research programmes. We are also committed to sustainability through our Green Plan, demonstrating our role in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, offer equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, and prioritize your health and wellbeing, shaping the future of our organisation together.
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