Regional Clinical Paediatric Lead
Job Reference Nbr: ZR473
Full -Time: 37.5hrs,
Monday to Friday
Home -Based – Nottingham Area
Pay: £44,850 - £48,750
per annum
HomeCareDirect are currently
seeking a Regional Clinical Paediatric Lead to join their team on a full -time
basis. You will be home and community based and will work autonomously,
managing your own caseload of clients living with a range of complex health needs
in the Nottingham area.
Your role is to ensure that
the people you support are given the best opportunities to remain healthy and
out of hospital, whilst assisting them to ensure their lives are enriched and
they are achieving their goals.
This is a support management
position to help people to live an independent life in line with their care and
support plan. Your role is to ensure that the people who use the
HomeCareDirect service are supported to achieve their goals and aspirations to
care standards whilst making a success out of directing their own support at
home.
You will have a client
caseload to provide ongoing visits to create care and support plans, undertake
annual support reviews, risk assessments, personal assistant inductions,
supervisions, team and MDT meetings and other visits as necessary to keep the person
safe.
Key Tasks:
· Support the person (and their family where
appropriate) to live independently whilst working
closely with the HomeCareDirect Independent Living Team to solve problems with
a pro -active 'can -do' attitude and approach
· Support the person in their support at home, to
meet their assessed needs
· Be pro -active to improve the quality of life of
the person living at home
· Visit prospective new service users, family/legal guardian at home or
in hospital to provide information and advice on how HomeCareDirect can help
people to live independently at home
· Create the care and support plan to meet the
assessed needs in partnership with the person, family/legal guardian whilst assessing the training
needs of their personal assistant(s) to the professional standards to which you
are qualified
· Undertake risk assessments for both the person
and their personal assistant(s) and report any non -compliance to head office
· Complete documentation to the timescales
required to meet professional standards
· Work in partnership with the HomeCareDirect
head office to help ensure that Health & Safety standards are met
· Undertake interviews and supervision of
personal assistant(s) in partnership with the client
· Undertake clinical observations of the personal
assistant(s) in line with their role
· Visit the client as often as indicated in the
support plan with a minimum of twice yearly supervisions for personal
assistants
· Undertake annual support reviews to CQC
standards
Requirements
Essential
Qualifications/Experience/Personal Qualities:
* You will be a qualified Paediatric Nurse with a
minimum Band 5 registration
* Registered with the NMC with a valid PIN
* Have clinical, complex care experience
* Have a commitment to undertake continuing
professional development (CPD)
* You will need to have extensive experience
of working in the community as a lone worker and in a senior role
* Have good IT skills, fully conversant with
Microsoft Office software, with internet access to enable use of our
bespoke online care planning system
* Have some care -planning experience
* Able to provide personal assistant
training in line with your competencies
* Have a full, UK driving licence
* Have a compassionate and caring outlook
with the ability to relate well to people, with families and personal
assistants, in a supporting role
* Be a good listener to the views, opinions
and needs of the individual (or family where appropriate)
* Be flexible and non -judgmental in
accepting individual situations and environments
* Good attention to detail, with a high
personal standard for service quality whilst ensuring you follow the
policies and procedures of HomeCareDirect
* Able to talk to people at a professional
level
* Be flexible and willing to make necessary
changes to meet the changing needs of the company
* Must live in the Nottingham or surrounding region
or be willing to relocate
Benefits
Benefits
o A salary of: £44,850, increasing to £48,750
per annum after a successful 6 month probationary period
o Mileage is paid at 48p per mile for the
first 10,000 miles, 25p per mile thereafter
o Food allowance for overnight stays are
paid at £10.00 for breakfast and £20.00 for evening meals. Overnight stays where required, are paid
for by HomeCareDirect via our corporate account
o Contribution towards professional
registration of £80.00 per annum
o Holiday entitlement of 20 days plus 8 bank
holidays which increases to 25 days plus 8 bank holidays after 1 year of
service
o Auto -enrolment into our pension scheme
o Sick pay after probation
o Birthday day off
o Blue Light Card with access to high street
discounts
o Employee Assistance Programme which
provides a 24/7 confidential helpline
o Access to our wellbeing app which provides
nutrition, fitness, podcasts and meditations along with self -help guides
o Excellent staff engagement activities
including competitions, team -building and employee awards
o On -site use of our wellbeing room when at
Head Office
HomeCareDirect are
industry -leading specialists in personalisation. We help a wide variety of
people to take control over their care at home using personal budgets, personal
health budgets, direct payments or their own funding.
Our organisation is committed
to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and
serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained and supervised
fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective and
compassionate care.