Clinical Support worker

Employer:Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Position: Clinical Support worker

Salary:£24,937 – £26,598 a year 

Job Types:Permanent, Part-time

Work location: Portsmouth

FULL JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary

The post holder will be part of the Community Paediatric Medical Service (CPMS) to provide clinical support and administrative assistance for the Community Paediatricians and the Nursing Team. Offer support before, during and after Neurodevelopment and Looked After Children clinical sessions to ensure they run efficiently and effectively, whilst ensuring the health and wellbeing of the children and young people is always priority.

When requested, provide vision, hearing, and growth screening across various community-based sites within Southampton City and South West Hampshire / Portsmouth City, Havant, Fareham and Gosport as required.

To provide administrative support to the CPMS clinics, including preparation and any follow up required and to ensure accurate updating of electronic patient records. To gather and collate user response forms and assist the Lead Nurse with the reporting of response of service users.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

● Prepare for clinic sessions by ensuring that records have been received

● On request test vision, hearing and accurately measure the growth of children during appointments.

● To communicate effectively with children and young people

● Promote and encourage user feedback

● To undertake Schedule of Growing Skills developmental assessments for children 1-5yrs

● To support clinicians by gathering investigation results and sharing as appropriate

● To work closely with colleagues in a second or parallel clinic when necessary.

● Follow up and maintain accurate records

● To organise/plan tasks/play activities for the child as necessary during the consultation

● Ensure records comply with the agreed record keeping systems.

● Ensure new and replacement equipment is calibrated, tested, and maintained to a good standards, in accordance with Trust policy.

● To ensure condemned equipment is disposed of appropriately, via the approved routes.

● Follow all infection prevention and control procedures as per Trust policy.

● Ensure that any concerns with risk, safety and/or patient care are escalated to senior staff, and that an incident form is completed in a timely manner.

● Follow Trust clinical governance requirements as per Trust policy.

● Work positively with colleagues to maintain effective relationships.

● To participate in on-going audit and professional development as required.

● To help reduce Was Not Brought (WNB) numbers, maximise capacity and reduce waiting times for CPMS by confirming attendance prior to clinics.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person’s care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Description

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone – if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust’s Recruitment team – detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working – all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

● Educated to NVQ Level 3, Health and Social Care Diploma or equivalent

● Good general education including English and Maths

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.

Work Location: in person

APPLICATION PROCESS

If you’re interested in this role, check out more information on the OFFICIAL WEBSITE HERE and apply now!!