Neurodiversity expert by experience (Child and Young People)

• be a family member or carer of a neurodivergent child or young person. They may be both neurodivergent and family member or carer of a neurodivergent child or young person.
• bring another viewpoint that comes from a person’s own experience.
• be willing to share their lived experience in a way that promotes positive development and change, both in terms of service development, and for individual children and their families.
• play a key part in the planning and designing of the new Neurodiversity in Enfield team for under 6s.
• Help the team understand better the views and experiences of families of neurodivergent children.
• liaise with families and carers to identify their needs and to reassure them that the team will support their child.
• share appropriate information about accessing services and local support.
• be expected to attend need-specific clinics (e.g. sleep, toileting, feeding etc) to support parents and carers, to guide them as to where to access the services and to provide emotional support.

We Would Hope That Parent Worker Could Draw Upon Their Personal Experience And Knowledge Of Parenting Or Caring For a Child With a Neurodevelopmental Condition To

• Inform clinical practice, i.e. the way the team is working
• Offer support in the facilitation and development of parenting support groups.
• The parent or parents would need to commit to coordinating and facilitating support groups for parents and we anticipate that the worker will participate in facilitating parenting groups and courses.
• Share/teach strategies with other parents
• Provide valuable contributions to regular steering group meetings and would be involved in further developing the parent worker role in the team.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Cooke Job title: Service Lead ND Pathway Email address: [email protected]