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Children's Clinic Assistant | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 09 August 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £24,071 - £25,674 Per annum (pro rata)
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 08 September 2024
Location: Moss Side, M14 4GP
Company: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6473316/349-LCO-6473316

Summary


The Community Paediatric Service is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Children's Clinic Assistant, with an awareness of children’s disability, to join their team.

Your role will be to promote the smooth and efficient running of all community paediatric clinics across the city, ensuring all necessary patient information is available to support the doctors in the clinics.

You will be required to support children with a range of disabilities including complex disability and challenging behaviour, and their families/carers, whilst attending community paediatric clinics. You will undertake the weighing and measuring of all children and young people prior to the consultation with the doctor and assist families to complete any relevant paper work. In addition to this you will also be expected to assist with the day to day smooth running of the service including administration and housekeeping duties.

You will be required to support the Child Protection clinic at the Coral Suite, Moss Side on a regular basis.

You must be able to travel across the city to support locality clinics.

To support children with complex disability and challenging behaviour and their families/carers, whilst attending community paediatric clinics.

To work as part of the Community Paediatric Service to support a range of community clinics, including Looked After Children and Child Protection clinics.

To ensure the safe and effective running of all clinics.

To ensure all necessary patient information is available to support the doctors in the community paediatric clinics.

To ensure the smooth and efficient running of the community paediatric clinics.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!


This advert closes on Sunday 25 Aug 2024

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