Child and Well-Being Practitioner in Manchester inManchester PUBLISHED FRI 14 FEB 2025 Jump to job information section
Job description
To provide practical and emotional support to Children and siblings.
o To work in liaison with other family/ sibling support services to ensure multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working, to enable a seamless system for children and families.
o To provide practical and emotional support to the siblings and immediate family following a child's death.
o To work closely with team members using your own initiative, good organisational leadership and time management skills.
- To guide and assist the nurses & short break facilitators in assessing the emotional needs of the child and immediate family.
- Developing an individualised plan of care.
- Enabling the short break facilitators to provide distraction techniques utilising therapeutic, sensory and developmental play activities.
- To attend and contribute to team meetings, case load updates and meetings relevant to the child.
- To participate in the development of projects which lead to service improvements
- To liaise and create links with the mortuary, funeral directors, and other agencies as part of end of life care for child and immediate family.
About us
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
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Benefits
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