Autism Care Co-ordinator

4 weeks ago


Gateshead, United Kingdom Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to support the Autism Assessment Service within the Trust Community Paediatric Service for children (< 5years) with suspected Autism. This is a newly created post to support the redesigned assessment pathway. The post holder will work with the clinical team within the Trust and provide a link to wider agencies eg 0-19 service, SALT, OT, Portage, HINT Early Years Specialist Teachers, nursery settings. By providing effective and efficient child focused co-ordination of information and supporting with face to face clinical assessments it will enable children to be appropriately assessed with a diagnostic decision as soon as possible.

This is a permanent post and there are two posts available.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of this role is to gather and co-ordinate information about a child from referral from an established multi-agency meeting, through their journey with allied health professional and education services. By matching the information collated regarding each child's developmental strengths, difficulties and progress against the DSM-V diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder this will reduce the face to face time required for assessment and add significantly improve the efficiency of the service with a resultant reduction in waiting times whilst maintaining a high standard of assessment. The post-holder will also work directly with the community paediatrician in the delivery of face to face assessments using their knowledge of pre-school child development and Autism to make highly reliable observations of a child's presentation to inform diagnostic decision making.

The post holder will work closely with the Child Development Clinic Co-ordinator to ensure that the pathway is co-ordinated efficiently and effectively and patient pathways are actively tracked to support the delivery of RTT performance. The postholder will be expected to identify delays within the assessment pathway and work collaboratively to provide solutions for these.

The role does not require a professional registration and applicants are welcome from a variety of backgrounds but experience of working with children is essential.

About us

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Work as a core member of the Autism Assessment Clinic team alongside the clinical team in all aspects of the patient pathway from referral to diagnosis.

Support the Child Development Clinic coordinator and clinical team to ensure smooth running of face to face clinic appointments and MDT meetings.

Ensure that documentation containing clinically relevant information from all involved services is prepared in advance of each childs Autism Assessment Clinic appointment and any MDT meetings.

Engage with the child, and where appropriate their family, in the face to face clinic appointment to both ensure that the childs comfort and safety is maintained and provide highly reliable and clinically relevant observations of the childs play, interaction and behaviour so as to enable on the day diagnostic decision making by the paediatrician wherever possible.

Work closely with the clinical team, Child Development Clinic Co-ordinator and Trust transformation team to continuously improve the Autism Assessment Service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with pre-school children

Desirable

Experience of working with children with ASD

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