When time is short, every moment matters. Join our dedicated team and help make every minute meaningful for children with life‑shortening conditions and their families.
As a Clinical Support Worker, you’ll provide compassionate, hands‑on care to babies, children, and young people, supported by our experienced nursing team. Your role will combine essential clinical care with creativity, play, and emotional support helping each child live life to the fullest.
Main duties of the job
- Provide holistic care to children and families in the hospice and sometimes in the community, following care plans and working under nursing supervision.
- Deliver clinical care for children with complex needs (e.g. personal care, feeding, seizure management, tracheostomy and oxygen care).
- Administer medication safely under indirect supervision.
- Carry out delegated clinical tasks after appropriate training and assessment.
- Monitor childrens conditions, reporting any changes promptly to senior staff.
- Use and maintain specialist equipment safely, reporting faults when needed.
- Support families emotionally, including pre‑ and post‑bereavement care.
- Engage children in play and activities to support development, enjoyment, and memory‑making.
- Contribute to daily hospice tasks, including light domestic duties and supporting outings (including driving hospice vehicles).
- Communicate effectively with families, colleagues, and external contacts, and share feedback.
- Maintain safety, stock, and equipment standards, and support regulatory (CQC) requirements.
- Work collaboratively with the care team and external agencies.
- Support safeguarding, reporting concerns and participating in supervision processes.
- Promote family involvement in care decisions and respect cultural needs.
- Continue professional development through training, supervision, and reflective practice.
About us
ForgetMe Not Childrens Hospice supports children with life‑shortening conditions, their families and families living with loss across West Yorkshire. We’re here for any family confronted with the news that their child has a life‑shortening condition, however, wherever and whenever they need us.
By providing superb nursing care, hydrotherapy, creative therapy, days out, memory‑making, end of life care, bereavement support and counselling, Forget Me Not helps families make the most of every moment they have together.
Our services include caring for families during pregnancy and birth, as well as respite and clinical care, hospice at home, family support and support for those affected by the sudden and unexpected death of a child. We provide these services to families across Kirklees, Calderdale, Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds.
Qualifications
- NVQ level 2 (health and social care) qualification or equivalent
Experience
- Experience of working with children in a professional children’s setting such as early years, learning disability, education or healthcare
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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