Healthcare Support Worker – Clinical Care - Paediatrics

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A Vacancy at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking for highly driven, passionate, caring individuals to join our team as Healthcare Support Workers across a range of wards and clinical areas for ‘Paediatrics’.

We have opportunities available in the following areas:

ChED

The Children's Emergency Department (CHED) provides emergency care and treatment for infants, children, and young people.

Buxton Ward

This ward encompasses a broad range of specialities including paediatric medicine and surgery, orthopaedics, ear, nose, and throat, plastic surgery, dermatology, ophthalmology, and oral health. There are dedicated high dependency beds for children requiring high dependency care.

Jenny Lind Out-patients (JLOP)

Our Jenny Lind Children’s Hospital is a hospital within a hospital for children and young people. We have a consultant team of acute general paediatricians, neonatal paediatricians, paediatric surgeons and community paediatricians contribute to the services here supported by an extensive team of specialist nurses and other professionals including physiotherapy, dietetics, speech and language therapy and play specialists.

Children’s Assessment Unit (CAU)

The Children’s Assessment Unit (CAU) is a facility at the Jenny Lind Children’s Hospital for the assessment and treatment of children who require urgent specialist care.

 

The successful candidate would work with the multi-disciplinary team to provide care and specialist treatment to a range of patients. The candidate would need to be willing to develop their knowledge and skills and undertake further training, if skills were not held already.

• Escort patients throughout their journey in the department.

• Provide support to children and their families

• Clinical observations

• Minor injury care (e.g, wound care, plaster application, burns dressings) 

• Supporting nursing teams with assessments of patients. 

• Caring for children and families in the resuscitation area

• Communicate effectively with children of different ages

• Assist with personal care where appropriate

• To assist with blood taking and cannulation

• ECGs 

• Escalate concerns as identified

• Support students/ junior members of staff when able

• To document effectively 

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Flexible working hours

• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service

• Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site

• Discounted gym memberships

• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement

• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it

• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site

• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support

• On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane

• On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane

• Support in career development

• Flexible staff bank

• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

Please see the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities. 

Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible

This advert closes on Sunday 15 Nov 2026