Advanced Practitioner ASD/ADHD diagnostician

Integrated Care System; Hessle; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

An innovative healthcare trust is seeking an Advanced Practitioner ASD/ADHD diagnostician to join their Neurodiversity Services. This part-time role (2 days a week) is focused on clinical assessments for children with neurodevelopmental conditions. The ideal candidate will have strong communication and leadership skills, along with relevant clinical qualifications. Experience in autism assessment is essential, and flexibility in work arrangements can be discussed.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children with neurodevelopmental conditions.
• Demonstrable experience of autism assessment and diagnosis.
• Evidence of CPD relevant to advanced clinical practice.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose, and treat patients requiring clinical service.
• Provide leadership and supervision of MDT assessments.
• Ensure compliance with NICE guidelines for diagnostic assessments.

Skills

Strong engagement skills

Excellent communication skills

Clinical leadership

Experience with neurodevelopmental conditions

Education

Current HCPC registration

Advanced/expert clinical qualification

Job description

Advanced Practitioner ASD/ADHD diagnostician

Are you passionate about working with children and young people? Do you have a real passion for supporting young people with Neurodiverse needs? Join our award-winning Trust and make a positive impact on the lives of young people with Neurodiverse needs across the Hull and East Riding area.

We would like to invite registered Occupational Therapists/Speech and Language Therapists to become an Advanced Practitioner Autism and ADHD Diagnostician in our dynamic Neurodiversity Services.

Please note the role is for 2 days a week and will be mainly clinic based.

As a crucial member of our multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to assessing, and supporting children with neurodevelopmental conditions.

The successful candidate will need to be adaptable and have strong engagement skills, excellent communication skills and experience of working and collaborating with highly skilled and passionate experts, including nurses, clinical psychologists, allied health professionals, and psychiatrists.

If you are enthusiastic about making a difference and dedicated to supporting the well-being of young people, we invite you to be part of our innovative and transforming service.

Main duties of the job

• To practice autonomously without direct supervision.
• To utilise advanced clinical skills to assess, diagnose, treat and refer patients requiring the clinical service
• To recognise the need for, initiate and where appropriate interpretrelevant diagnostic investigations.
• To recognise the need for and initiate where appropriate advice of relevant specialisms.
• To demonstrate advanced clinical skills in ASD and/or ADHD assessments and provide leadership, training and supervision of staff undertaking assessments as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
• To liaise closely with other members of the MDT to ensure a detailed and complete diagnostic assessment is completed in line with NICE guidance, demonstrating skill and confidence in identifying the need for further specialist in person assessment.
• Act as lead senior practitioner to provide clinical/managerial leadership for the team in the absence of other senior team members
• Be responsible for ensuring clinical outcome data is appropriately collated and routinely recorded to the Trust and professional clinical regulatory body standards
• To employ excellent communication skills, both verbal and written to promote multi-disciplinary and interagency liaison and collaborative practice to broad range of audiences, including other professionals and service users

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation and guidance relevant to working with autistic adults.
• Full understanding / application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within Occupational therapy, Nursing, Speech and Language Therapy or Clinical Psychology..
• Evidence of undertaking audits / surveys
• Member of specialist interest group/network, regionally or nationally
• Good working knowledge of relevant IT systems to own area of work

Experience

• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
• Demonstrable experience of working in the designated field - Autism assessment, diagnosis and intervention
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to Occupational therapy, Nursing, Speech and Language Therapy or Clinical Psychology to advanced level e.g. Masters/post-graduate diploma and equivalent knowledge / experiential learning
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
• Professional networking regionally and nationally
• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact / change within service delivery / practice at an advanced / expert level
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing

Qualifications

• Current HCPC registration
• Additional training related to clinical field/demonstrates interest in Neurodiversity.
• Advanced / expert clinical qualification
• Prepared to undertake or hold an accredited leadership qualification
• Student learning in Practice (SLIP) qualification or Apple accredited.

Effort and environment

• Ability to effectively use telehealth to conduct diagnostic assessment and use virtual conferencing to maintain clear lines of communication with the MDT.

Personal Attributes

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring and teaching
• Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
• Be able to demonstrate leadership / management skills at an advanced level

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Part-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working