Band 3 Children's Palliative Carer

To provide a high quality, safe, equitable and efficient service to children registered with the Children's Palliative Care Team. Providing interventional support to children, young people and their families in the home environment, nursery, school (main stream and special school settings) and other community settings. A high number of these children will be considered to be very fragile and in the end stages of their life, this will involve independent and team working, clinical competency, for example, administering enteral feeds and medications.

Maximising quality of life through using play and memory making. Liaison with all professionals known to the child and family including contributing where appropriate to Education and Health Care Plans and Safeguarding discussions and Continuing Healthcare assessment and review. Successful candidate will be expected to take part in the auditing of this role with the potential to further develop this way of working across other services.

Be Part of Our Team... Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands. If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you. Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.

Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address To work in partnership with children and young people and their families to deliver planned episodes of care through Continuing Healthcare Funding where it has been agreed the Children's Palliative Care team will provide this support.

To provide nursing care and intervention to children and young people inside or outside of the family home including agreed community settings and schools dependent on clinical needs identified and the appropriateness of this delegation. To demonstrate competence in nominated clinical tasks following an appropriate programme of training. This will include seizure management, airway management using suction and oxygen, tracheostomy management, enteral feeding and management of feeding devices, administration of medications via oral, enteral, rectal and inhalation routes, intermittent catheterization including accessing of Mitrofanoff and end of life care.

To support a child/young person to die in their or their family's place of choice, assisting with basic nursing care/delegated interventions ensuring dignity, care and compassion is of the highest priority. Any intervention will be agreed with parents/nursing team and a signed clinical competency will be undertaken. Care will be evaluated by the named keyworker assigned to the child/young person on a regular basis.

Any concerns around effectiveness of care/intervention/deterioration must be escalated to the named keyworker/team accordingly. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, compassionate and motivated Palliative Carer to join the Children's Palliat