GR - Healthcare Support Worker - Community Outreach Service

Overview

Healthcare Support Worker - Community Outreach Service

Our Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan sets out our Vision, Ambitions and Values that enable excellent care for our patients and service users. A collaborative, person focused approach is at the centre of everything we aspire to achieve, and necessary to deliver care that is high quality, compassionate, safe and effective. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture for people who work for us and use our services.

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and communities and are committed to developing a nursing and midwifery workforce with diverse skills and experiences. We are interested in your passion for developing with us as a leader and aligning with the values and ambitions of our Strategic Plan. We aim to provide strong foundations of clinical education with our Clinical Education and Training team, education coordinators, induction programmes and preceptorship, and to work with you to build on your leadership strengths.

Recruitment is values and competency based, linked to the ambitions in our Strategic Plan. Details on interview questions are provided through the linked information in our process.

Exciting opportunities are available to join the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People (RHCYP) Outreach service team. We have two full-time Healthcare Support Worker positions available, and we are looking for passionate, caring, motivated people to join our team.

The Outreach Service aims to support families with children who have Exceptional Health Care Needs. The children and young people have varied individual needs; many are technology dependent, most are chronically ill with limited life expectancy and exceptional health care needs. All children and young people have an individual package of care and the aim is to provide high quality, consistent and continuous care to help the family live as normal a life as possible.

Successful candidates will work in a rotational post within NHS Lothian. Please note that these are predominantly night shift positions.

For more information please contact Team Lead Gavin Herbert: gavin.herbertt

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please email the Generic Recruitment Team, who will be able to assist: loth.genericrecruitmentt

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If you are an internal NHS Lothian Band 3 candidate we will not proceed with shortlisting and interview and instead you will move to our internal transfer process. To find out more about the internal transfer process, please click on the link below.

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• Please note we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage

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