Children's Continuing Care Assistant
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
London, SE2 0ASView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£30,630 to £32,346
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
21 October 2026
2 days leftJob description
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post. The Community Children's Nursing t...
- To work as a member of the children's community nursing team providing packages of care for named individual children with complex health care needs in their home.
- To ensure that children receive the planned play and stimulation related to their emotional developmental needs in the home and community setting.
- To encourage and maintain high standards of personal care, including hygiene for all babies, children and young people.
- To carry out duties, within good practice guidelines, involving the Assistant Practitioner and Lead Continuing Care nurse when required.
- To work as part of a team offering support and advice to families within own scope of practice.
- To be competent in working with equipment in the home. For example feeding pumps, administration of emergency medication and use of hoists.
- To carry out care plans developed by the Lead Continuing Care nurse and supervised by the Assistant Practitioner.
- To undertake skilled clinic tasks following competency based training for named children for whom they provide care; for example tracheostomy care, enteral feeding (naso-gastric/Gastrostomy/jejunostomy), suctioning, changing oxygen probes and basic life support.
- To be familiar with all equipment required to support the child and to report any deficiency immediately.
- To carry out and record defined safety checks of technical equipment during each shift reporting any issues to the family and Assistant Practitioner.
- To identify concerns and report to the continuing care nurse.
- To implement agreed individual programmes of care and act as key worker if required.
- To carry out duties, within good practice guidelines and involving senior clinicians where required.
- To check and maintain a safe environment and equipment when working.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're
- We Listen
- We Care
Education
Essential: - NVQ 3 or the Cavendish Care certificate
Desirable: - GCSEs or equivalent
Experience
Essential: - Working with children with disabilities and complex health needs
Desirable: - 1 years experience working with children and young people
Experience
Essential: - Working as part of a team
Desirable: - Clinical experience
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First seen
7 October 2026
Last checked
8 October 2026
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