ASD Co-Ordinator

The post holder will provide a responsive and efficient administrative service to meet the needs of the team. The post holder will use their reason, intellect, and judgement to work on their own initiative to deal with matters on behalf of their Manager and Neurodevelopmental service delivery supporting patients through the autism pathway within the Neurodevelopmental service. The post holder will be an effective decision maker, who is able to prioritise own workload whilst responding to interruptions. The post holder will be able to deal with unpredictable work patterns and proactively deal with issues without reference to others.,

• Provide high quality confidential and comprehensive administrative service including the management of patient clinic bookings (eg. ADOS, 3DI, Cognitive assessment clinic, ASD solo/joint) matching clinician diaries for clinics on background of using room booking system, follow up clinics and rebooking cancelled/rescheduled appointments.
• To provide administrative co-ordination of care including processing of new referrals and informing the relevant clinician of children added to waiting list, supporting the administration of patient caseloads, waiting lists, and adding children to relevant pathways as required.
• Follow up and progress patients stuck on the neurodevelopmental pathway as escalated by clinicians.
• Set up of parent groups, psychoeducation groups, booking of school and home visits as directed for further information on children.
• Outcoming of clinics which may include discharge of patients to the relevant provider and support of children flowing through the neurodevelopmental pathway.
• Prepare patient lists ready for multidisciplinary meetings and perform outcomed post-meeting action plans promptly in support of safe, effective care to the patient.
• Responding to email/telephone queries including parents'/carers' (complaints and requests) and forwarding relevant queries to wider Neurodevelopmental team as required.
  
  Starting with NELFTNELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.