We are looking for an enthusiastic support assistant to join our Barnet Children's Integrated Therapies team.
Your role will be as a support worker to a Speech and Language Therapist. You will support in the administrative elements of their role. This role will involve being present in therapy and assessment sessions within schools with children and young people in Barnet.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
Key duties will include various administrative tasks such as taking notes during session, making bookings on the patient record system. Populating clinical documents with information and formatting and editing other documents. Supporting to maintain caseload spreadsheets and ensuring patient data is up to date on the clinical systems.
The role will be based directly with the therapist in schools for 12 hours per week and then administration at Edgware Community Hospital for 4 further hours.
The hours would be:
Tuesday 9-3
Wednesday 9-3
Thursday 9-13
To carry out any other duties commensurate with the grade as directed by the line manager
Prioritise and manage own workload on a day-to-day basis.
The majority of annual leave is required to be taken within the school holidays to meet the needs of the service.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
To carry out scanning and uploading paper records on to the Rio patient record system.
Under the guidance of the Line Manager, provide ad-hoc general admin
support to staff based within the SEMH administration team as required.
Any other reasonable duties as directed appropriate to grade
To participate in on-the-job learning, this includes shadowing experience staff,
reading up on service and policies, asking for guidance, and asking questions to clarify points
of knowledge, experience and understanding.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.