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14 month Fixed Term Contract - Apprenticeship

Are you enthusiastic, compassionate, self-motivated and want to gain experience as a Health Care Support Worker in Paediatrics? If so, this is the post for you! We are looking for Health Care Support Workers to work on Buxton Ward and our Children’s Day Ward.

Buxton and Children’s Day Ward are busy wards looking after patients from all medical and surgical specialties. We also have a 6 bedded high dependency unit. Our HCSW’s are really valuable members of our team in supporting the registered Nurses and providing the high standard of holistic Family-centred care we pride ourselves on.

Jenny Lind Children’s Hospital also comprises of our Children’s ED, Children’s Assessment Unit, Children’s Day ward, NICU and Outpatients. We like to offer successful candidates experience in all these areas during induction and probation, as we ask staff to redeploy to other areas when clinical need requires.

We will offer the successful applicant all relevant training and opportunities to develop skills relevant to Paediatrics as well as supporting them in completing study related to the college course.

If you share our passion for providing best possible care to children and their parents when they need it the most and want to work in a team which consistently strives to provide every patient with the care we want for those we love most then we would like to hear from you.

As the successful candidates, you will work either on Buxton or Children’s Day Ward.

Buxton is a 33 bedded ward, caring for children from all medical and surgical specialties as well as on our HDU unit.

The Children’s Day ward where children come for day procedures and treatments including elective surgeries, chemotherapy, Allergy food challenges and much much more.

Day-to-day care for an Apprentice HCSW would be carrying out observations, cares for the babies on the ward as well as older children, supporting with feeding, washing and dressing patients as well as providing support to the wider family around the child.

We would offer all additional relevant training required to extend their knowledge and skills to care of our patients. We also offer all staff the opportunity to become a link for areas that they have particular interest in and give opportunities to gain experience and receive training in this area and disseminate learning to colleagues.

This opportunity would allow the successful candidate to develop skills and experience in caring for children attending hospital and provide the high standard family centred care we pride ourselves on.

If this sounds like an opportunity you are interested in, we are excited to hear from you.

Interview date: 25th November 2025

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mary Woodhouse Job title: CDW and JLOP Ward Manager Email address: Mary.woodhouse@nnuh.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01603 286286

Ext. 5238

About the Company

The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is a 1,000 bed teaching hospital with state-of-the-art facilities for modern patient care. We work closely with the University of East Anglia's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences to train health professionals and undertake clinical research. We also run Cromer and District Hospital on the north Norfolk coast and this hospital was redeveloped in a £15 million scheme, opening in March 2012. Our staff of more than 7,000 treat more than 800,000 people from Norfolk, neighbouring ... Know more