Community Neurodevelopmental Paediatric Practitioner

at  Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Community Neurodevelopmental Paediatric (CNP) service is looking to welcome 2 (1.6 WTE) CNP practitioners.
The CNP service comprises of two community based assessment centers, Ashton Health Centre and Brodaoks Child Development Centre. These newly created roles will work across both sites primarily supporting patients undergoing an ADHD assessment through the delivery of QB testing. Furthermore, the role will also support wider neurodevelopmental work through nursery/school observations, report scoring and the delivery of service specific workshops.
You will also support the clinic facilitators at each site ensuring the smooth running of daily duties across both sites.
We are looking for a pro-active and caring person, to work in our evolving service. If this sounds like a opportunity you may be interested in and want to hear more about our service or arrange a visit please do get in touch with Ben Croasdale on benjamin.croasdale@lthtr.nhs.uk.
️ Communicating effectively with children and MDT colleagues.
Provide a robust assessment of children’s development in line with typical developmental stages.
Ensure that personal development needs are fully met.
Contribute to service improvement and the delivery of excellent care and treatment.
Maintain accurate clinical records.
Actively contribute to a patient’s assessments and accurately maintain pathway records.
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
You will primarily be responsible for setting up and conducting QB tests for the Community Neurodevelopmental Paediatric (CNP) ADHD pathway to support paediatricians in concluding a diagnostic decision. Additionally, you will form a key part of the multidisciplinary team and be involved in monthly MDT meetings contributing to a patient’s assessment.
You may at times be required to confidently assess a child’s development by observing and interacting with children in a variety of environments who have been referred to Community Paediatrics for an assessment of their development. The observations obtained by observing children in a social setting will be evaluated and evidenced in a report completed by the Children’s Community Neurodevelopment Practitioner; to aid further medical review, such as for a social communication assessment or for complex cases.
️ Additionally, you will be responsible for managing the daily administrative duties for the ADHD pathway, including but not limited to updating and maintaining the ADHD assessment spreadsheet, transferring/filling in developmental history, creating and distributing monthly MDT agendas and following up on actions, booking patient appointments, sending out questionnaires, liaising with families and schools, and scoring questionnaires/reports.
️ You will demonstrate professional, well-established, and effective communication skills, both within and external to the organisation.
Experience and awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), ADHD, and Neurodiversity, alongside a robust understanding of child development, is essential to this role.
You will work as a member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team by contributing to and assessing a child’s development to support identification of need for children with developmental delays, with future scope to initiate and run group workshops to support patients under the CNP service.
You are expected to travel across sites as requirement by the service

Please refer the Job description for details