AACC Senior Clinical Assessor Children & Young People Team

Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children, young people, and their families?

Do you hold a professional clinical qualification such as registered nurse, allied health professional etc with experience of working in the field of children, young people and families?

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Clinical Assessor/Practitioner to join our team.

This is an exciting time to join the service with opportunities to work with a wide range of stakeholder's and in partnership with other agencies.

Our vision is to be consistently recognised for commissioning and enabling delivery of high-quality family centred healthcare, which is innovative, equitable, efficient, effective and, where possible, prevention based, contributing to the healthiest population.

Children and Young People (CYP) referred to Children's Continuing Care service will receive a high-quality service ensuring that the child, family, and carers are at the heart of a personalisation approach. We work closely with adult Continuing Healthcare to deliver the NHS All Age Continuing Care vision.

This role requires working across Children's Continuing Care, including Children and Young People who are eligible for S117 funding.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be working in a collaborative approach to address the child and family's needs; whilst working closely with colleagues from Social Care and Special Education Needs to provide a holistic approach to the support provided.

Though working collaboratively with other key professionals, the successful candidate will need to be able to complete assessments as part of the ICB delivery of the NHS Continuing Care framework, for the children in a full and succinct manner. These assessments are then presented by the team member to a multi-agency panel where eligibility will be discussed and agreed or declined.

The successful candidate will be part of the clinical team where they will work independently managing their own case load, where they whilst ensuring that they fulfil the ethos of looking after the whole child. They will have an opportunity to build cross agency relationships.

We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.

We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.

We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.

Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:

27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement

NHS pension scheme

Sick pay policy

Occupational health services including staff counselling services

Flexible working and family friendly policies

Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers

Health Service Discounts - offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.

Successful candidates will be subject to a six-month probationary period.