Nursery Nurse/ Child Practioner, Blackburn, Lancashire

Job description

Are you currently working with children and looking for a new role?

Are you passionate about enhancing a child or young person’s everyday life?

Would you like to progress your career by working with children who require complex clinical care?

We are looking for people who have a genuine interest in working with children and young people, to support our young service users who have some complex clinical care needs.

We offer comprehensive training allowing you to enhance your experience of working with children by working in a more clinical role. Training can include but is not limited to;

• Tracheostomy Care
• Ventilation management
• Personal Care
• Moving & Handling
• Gastrostomy Care (PEG feed)

Meet our service user

Our service user is a bright and energetic young girl who lives with her loving family in Blackburn and requires 1:1 support with her complex needs throughout the day and night.

She shows lots of independence and loves to interact with her family and care team. Her hobbies and interests include imaginative play with her toy kitchen, and dolls house and is very much a girly girl who enjoys exploring with her make up, painting her nails as well as pampering her care team.

As a family they often have fun days out visiting the local park and she particularly enjoys going shopping with Mum.

Throughout the night she tends to sleep well, your role will involve observing closely, attending to any clinical care requirements, and promoting a restful environment.

Our service user communicates through gestures, and the use of sign language and Makaton. It is important our care team become familiar with her methods of communication to ensure her wants and needs are met.

Our service user has specifically requested for female staff to work on their team.

It is essential for our candidates to have complex and clinical care experience working with children

Essential experience required

• Personal Care
• Moving & Handling
• Medication administration
• Children's complex care experience

Desirable experience required

• Catheter care
• Knowledge of Makaton & Sign language

Shifts Available

• Part Time Nights 2 shifts per week
• 10:00pm – 7:30am
• Alternate weekends are essential for this position

Take a look out our pay rates

Weeknights: £15.50 per hour (Approx. £147.25 per 9.5-hour shift)

Saturdays: £15.50 per hour (Approx. £147.25 per 9.5-hour shift)

Sundays: £16.50 per hour (Approx. £156.75 per 9.5-hour shift)

Bank Holidays: £16.50 per hour (Approx. per £156.75 per 9.5 hour shift)

This is a personally rewarding role where you can build on your clinical skills and experience, whilst delivering exceptional care and support to our service user and really making an impact on her day-to-day life.

Apollo Home Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer and we advertise a high volume of vacancies on behalf of our clients.

Due to the nature of the vacancies we recruit for, our clients have the right to request whether they wish for female or male staff to work on their team.

These specific requirements do not reflect the views of our organisation.