Job summary
The purpose of this job description is to outline the level of responsibility and accountability of this post. This will ensure that all work undertaken by our staff is clearly identified and carried out under clear lines of accountability.
The post holder will have a delegated caseload under supervision the Speech and Language Lead and other senior staff members. The post holder will have a responsibility to carry out specific clinical support duties care for patients, families/ carers, particularly support for language development. The post holder will work in partnership with the Multi-Disciplinary Team, and other agencies, to ensure that excellent standards of care are provided within the Communication development pathway of the Health Visiting Workforce pilot.
Services are delivered in Family Hubs, nursery settings, children and family and homes. Building the capacity of other professionals and parents to support children and young people with developmental difficulties is a key priority for our team.
The Assistant practitioner support qualified therapists, and other key staff such as Health Visitors and Family Hub practitioners in providing both specialist-level assessment and intervention and targeted-level support through 121 and group interventions.
The GP Care Group 0-19 Universal teams provide a safe, effective, and high-quality service to clients using research-based evidence to inform practice within agreed professional standards.
Main duties of the job
- Triage 12-month review for social communication difference / speech & language needs.
- Deliver early support for social communication difference (e.g. iBASIS-VIPP) to targeted allocation on a monthly basis one one-one level, as per agreed pathway.
- Work with Family Hub practitioner in facilitating low to moderate group intervention for the Little Talker programme.
- Develop, manage, and maintain positive, and trusting relationships with families, demonstrating respect, kindness, compassion and empathy.
- Sensitively communicate with and provide emotional support to distressed patients/relatives, always demonstrating empathy.
- Escalate in situations where the post-holder feels that families are not being supported adequately.
- Provide impromptu advice to families and be a source of knowledge in school and in the home.
- Make follow up phone calls and visits to families as required.
- Communicate with children and relatives using verbal and non- verbal skills acknowledging sensitivity and utilizing approaches appropriate to the complexity of the context or culture. This will include people who may have difficulties understanding or communicating.
- Work jointly with interpreters and advocates as required facilitating effective communication to children, their families and other carers.
- Use effective interpersonal skills to encourage children, parents and carers to become active participants in their care.
This is a fixed term role ending in March 2025.
About us
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
Read up more about Tower Hamlets here: http://www.towerhamlets.is/
The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
- Innovation and support for primary care
- Being a great place to work
- Integrating primary and community care
- Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
- Influencing improvements in health outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Triage 12-month review for social communication difference / speech & language needs.
- Deliver early support for social communication difference (e.g. iBASIS-VIPP) to targeted allocation on a monthly basis one one-one level, as per agreed pathway.
- Work with Family Hub practitioner in facilitating low to moderate group intervention for the Little Talker programme.
- Develop, manage, and maintain positive, and trusting relationships with families, demonstrating respect, kindness, compassion and empathy.
- Sensitively communicate with and provide emotional support to distressed patients/relatives, always demonstrating empathy.
- Escalate in situations where the post-holder feels that families are not being supported adequately.
- Provide impromptu advice to families and be a source of knowledge in school and in the home.
- Make follow up phone calls and visits to families as required.
- Communicate with children and relatives using verbal and non- verbal skills acknowledging sensitivity and utilizing approaches appropriate to the complexity of the context or culture. This will include people who may have difficulties understanding or communicating.
- Work jointly with interpreters and advocates as required facilitating effective communication to children, their families and other carers.
- Use effective interpersonal skills to encourage children, parents and carers to become active participants in their care.
- Understands a range of organisations in the local area across health, education, social care and charities and signpost or refer families appropriately.
- Develop a basic-level understanding of all the common developmental difficulties that children and young people who access our service have.
- Develop a detailed understanding of the relevant development difficulties within the area of work assigned to the post-holder.
- Complete training in specific therapy skills and techniques to assist children to reach their full potential. These techniques require skill, accuracy, and therapeutic handling.
- Participate in Clinical and management programmes to receive direction, support.
- Maintain own caseload of allocated children as delegated by the SLT Lead, acting within the advice and guidance given by the therapist.
- Maintain accurate, up to date daily client records in line with national legislative policies, professional standards and local procedures, under the supervision of a supervisor or independently once a specified standard has been achieved.
- Conduct initial interviews with parents and other carers gathering information in a structured way, making sure this is recorded in the patient management system.
- Participate in research and quality improvement activities.
- Complete complex research activities including data collection and analysis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Triage 12-month review for social communication difference / speech & language needs.
- Deliver early support for social communication difference (e.g. iBASIS-VIPP) to targeted allocation on a monthly basis one one-one level, as per agreed pathway.
- Work with Family Hub practitioner in facilitating low to moderate group intervention for the Little Talker programme.
- Develop, manage, and maintain positive, and trusting relationships with families, demonstrating respect, kindness, compassion and empathy.
- Sensitively communicate with and provide emotional support to distressed patients/relatives, always demonstrating empathy.
- Escalate in situations where the post-holder feels that families are not being supported adequately.
- Provide impromptu advice to families and be a source of knowledge in school and in the home.
- Make follow up phone calls and visits to families as required.
- Communicate with children and relatives using verbal and non- verbal skills acknowledging sensitivity and utilizing approaches appropriate to the complexity of the context or culture. This will include people who may have difficulties understanding or communicating.
- Work jointly with interpreters and advocates as required facilitating effective communication to children, their families and other carers.
- Use effective interpersonal skills to encourage children, parents and carers to become active participants in their care.
- Understands a range of organisations in the local area across health, education, social care and charities and signpost or refer families appropriately.
- Develop a basic-level understanding of all the common developmental difficulties that children and young people who access our service have.
- Develop a detailed understanding of the relevant development difficulties within the area of work assigned to the post-holder.
- Complete training in specific therapy skills and techniques to assist children to reach their full potential. These techniques require skill, accuracy, and therapeutic handling.
- Participate in Clinical and management programmes to receive direction, support.
- Maintain own caseload of allocated children as delegated by the SLT Lead, acting within the advice and guidance given by the therapist.
- Maintain accurate, up to date daily client records in line with national legislative policies, professional standards and local procedures, under the supervision of a supervisor or independently once a specified standard has been achieved.
- Conduct initial interviews with parents and other carers gathering information in a structured way, making sure this is recorded in the patient management system.
- Participate in research and quality improvement activities.
- Complete complex research activities including data collection and analysis.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children with special educational needs or Disability (SEND).
- Experience of administration tasks within a health care, educational or office setting.
- A sound understanding of child development, parenting.
- Knowledge of most common developmental difficulties e.g. autism and how these can impact on children and their families.
- To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of social, economic and cultural background.
- Ability to demonstrate good written and oral communication skills with all disciplines.
- Able to work under delegation from the Health Visitor/School Nurse and report concerns back appropriately.
- Able to implement specific action plans in partnership with parent, child and family.
- Effectively uses specialist knowledge and communication skills to initiate and sustain open and honest interactions, recognising the individual and collective needs of clients and other professional agencies.
- Ability to demonstrate good interpersonal skills to develop and maintain positive working relationships with professional and non-professional colleagues and clients. Providing advice and guidance with tact and sensitivity.
- Ability to work on own initiative and manage own workload.
- To be able to work as part of a wider team to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 0 - 19.
Abilities
Essential
- Experience of working as a therapy assistant (or equivalent AHP support worker role).
- Experience of providing personalised care to individuals, adapting the care to an individuals needs.
Qualifications
Essential
- NNEB or Diploma in Childcare & Education (CDE) awarded by CACHE or NHC in Childcare & Education (Scotland)/Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years (DEXCEL)/Nursing Associate
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of life experience which demonstrates and ability to work alone
- Experience of facilitating groups.
- Experience of working within a community setting.
- Experience of working with safeguarding children issues.
Other requirements.
Essential
- To be able to manage self in often demanding situations.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children with special educational needs or Disability (SEND).
- Experience of administration tasks within a health care, educational or office setting.
- A sound understanding of child development, parenting.
- Knowledge of most common developmental difficulties e.g. autism and how these can impact on children and their families.
- To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of social, economic and cultural background.
- Ability to demonstrate good written and oral communication skills with all disciplines.
- Able to work under delegation from the Health Visitor/School Nurse and report concerns back appropriately.
- Able to implement specific action plans in partnership with parent, child and family.
- Effectively uses specialist knowledge and communication skills to initiate and sustain open and honest interactions, recognising the individual and collective needs of clients and other professional agencies.
- Ability to demonstrate good interpersonal skills to develop and maintain positive working relationships with professional and non-professional colleagues and clients. Providing advice and guidance with tact and sensitivity.
- Ability to work on own initiative and manage own workload.
- To be able to work as part of a wider team to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 0 - 19.
Abilities
Essential
- Experience of working as a therapy assistant (or equivalent AHP support worker role).
- Experience of providing personalised care to individuals, adapting the care to an individuals needs.
Qualifications
Essential
- NNEB or Diploma in Childcare & Education (CDE) awarded by CACHE or NHC in Childcare & Education (Scotland)/Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years (DEXCEL)/Nursing Associate
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of life experience which demonstrates and ability to work alone
- Experience of facilitating groups.
- Experience of working within a community setting.
- Experience of working with safeguarding children issues.
Other requirements.
Essential
- To be able to manage self in often demanding situations.
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.
