Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Children's Community Clinic Facilitator

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Job summary

We are looking for a motivated, creative and passionate person to join our Community and Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics Team (CNP) as a Community Clinic Facilitator. You will work with a variety of members of the team and have peer support from Ashley who is our other Community Clinic Facilitator across our community services.

Like Ashley, you will be instrumental in ensuring children, young people and their families that attend our community clinic settings, have a positive experience and joining a team whom go consistently go above and beyond their duty of care to improve patient experience and sustain our services.

If you have experience of working with children and their families and are motivated, have an ability to work within a team whilst being flexible, able to prioritise your workload, be innovative and an effective communicator; then we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Enthusiasm to support our teams to deliver high quality services is a must for this role, and you will also need to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable and approachable.

We want to make every Child and Young Person (CYP) feel comfortable in attending our settings and this role will be instrumental in ensuring we make this happen, every time!

Core components of this role are:

To assist the CNP Team by providing a high quality clinic facilitator service within the outpatient setting, ensuring the smooth running of outpatient clinics, meeting the needs of the children and their families and responsible for liaising with appropriate staff.
To obtain CYP's growth measurements and their observations to aid other's clinical decision making.
The post holder will work without direct supervision.
To develop and maintain sound management and organisational skills.
To act as patient advocate, ensuring privacy, dignity and confidentiality are met.
To monitor and ensure patient satisfaction and be proactive in managing any issues that are identified

You will have the opportunity to be involved in exciting service transformation plans around further enhancing the environment alongside your core role expectations working alongside the Community Paediatricians and being an active participant within innovative activities and projects that enhance patient service delivery.

About us

Our outpatient provision covers Chorley, South Ribble and Greater Preston. We offer specialist assessment, coordination with other services and long-term support to children and young people and their families with developmental conditions or complex health needs.

We work very closely with our therapy colleagues (physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech & language therapy) and our community and specialist nursing team. We have established links with many other agencies.We have a range of expertise areas including assessing and managing children & young people with:

Neurodisability (neurological problems associated with disability e.g. cerebral palsy)
Developmental delay or abnormal development in pre-school aged children
Suspected neurodevelopmental disorders, which include:
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia)
Sensory impairment e.g. newly diagnosed visual impairment or significant hearing impairment
Neonatal presentations with high risk of developmental delay including those with congenital syndromes
Involvement of the Adoption and Fostering teams - performing medical assessments andparticipation in Adoption Panel Meetings
Special Educational Needs or Disability-clinics held at Special Schools and completion of Health advice

We provide a service to children and young people between the ages of 0 - 16 years, or up to 19 years if they are attending a special school setting.

Date posted

08 June 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£20,330 to £21,777 a year Per Annum, Pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

9 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

438-RC7857

Job locations

Across our community clinic sites

Main base is Broadoaks CDC

Leyland

PR25 3ED

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please do read through the job description to understand more around the roles and responsibilities that this job entails.

The key overview is also outlined within this advertisement but if you are looking to apply, our key take home messages are:

Are you passionate in making a positive difference for Children and Young People accessing health services?
Have you got the transferrable skills from working across a variety of settings in terms of having excellent communication skills with Children and Young People of all ages? This role is not restricted to only candidates whom have worked within the NHS. There will be internal training available.
Are you ready for no two days being the same?

If the answer is yes then we would welcome your application.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please do read through the job description to understand more around the roles and responsibilities that this job entails.

The key overview is also outlined within this advertisement but if you are looking to apply, our key take home messages are:

Are you passionate in making a positive difference for Children and Young People accessing health services?
Have you got the transferrable skills from working across a variety of settings in terms of having excellent communication skills with Children and Young People of all ages? This role is not restricted to only candidates whom have worked within the NHS. There will be internal training available.
Are you ready for no two days being the same?

If the answer is yes then we would welcome your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential

NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent
GCSE Maths & English grade C or above OR level 2 numeracy skills and level 2 literacy skills

Desirable

NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Significant experience of working with children and their families
Experience of working with children and families with health needs
A basic understanding of organisation of nursing care
Understanding of concept and application of confidentiality

Desirable

Experience of working in a health care or related setting
Experience of working within a paediatric outpatient department

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential

NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent
GCSE Maths & English grade C or above OR level 2 numeracy skills and level 2 literacy skills

Desirable

NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Significant experience of working with children and their families
Experience of working with children and families with health needs
A basic understanding of organisation of nursing care
Understanding of concept and application of confidentiality

Desirable

Experience of working in a health care or related setting
Experience of working within a paediatric outpatient department

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Across our community clinic sites

Main base is Broadoaks CDC

Leyland

PR25 3ED

Employer's website

https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Across our community clinic sites

Main base is Broadoaks CDC

Leyland

PR25 3ED

Employer's website

https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)