Neurodevelopmental Practitioner

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Health Professional to join our friendly and welcoming team in Wiltshire that provide a specialist assessment service within the Neurodevelopmental Pathway for children and young people when investigating a diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD).

You'll work in partnership with parents/carers and the multi-disciplinary team along with other agencies.

You will be an appropriately qualified Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Mental Health Nurse, or Psychologist.

You will be expected to provide contributions of assessment information to the Neurodevelopmental Pathway, as well as contributing to the team in their specialist areas of knowledge. The Neurodevelopmental Pathway provides robust assessment of children and young people with suspected autism and/ or ADHD, and appropriate onward signposting and referral.

As a Neurodevelopmental Practitioner you will support the service in varied aspects of diagnostic assessment and post diagnostic advice to parents, carers, education staff and children and young people.

We have 2 part-time roles, various hours available.

The base location is to be agreed but will be at one of the following hubs: Chippenham, Bath, Salisbury or Trowbridge

Main duties of the job

• Making assessment and differential diagnosis of a child's communication and social interaction needs through the use of highly specialised standardised and non-standardised assessments, reflection on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of a child's communication, informal observation, specialist knowledge and consultation with parents/carers, and other professionals (Possibly including ADOS, virtual assessment, telephone consultation and completion of diagnostic paperwork)
• Use specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements/decision making for case management
• To accurately collate key information gathered in order to come to the most appropriate diagnostic outcome through liaison with the child/ young person, their family and the Multi-Disciplinary Team

For a full list of role responsibilities please refer to the attached job description.

About us

As a Band 6 Neurodevelopmental Practitioner you will be part of our valued team in our Wiltshire Children's Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £38,682 - £46,580 FTE salary (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Salisbury

Wiltshire

SP4 6AT

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Salisbury

Wiltshire

SP4 6AT

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

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