BANK B7 Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist – ASD diagnostics

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Greater London is looking for an experienced Bank OT to join the Specialist Children and Young People’s Services. This role focuses on undertaking ASD diagnostic assessments within a multidisciplinary team. Candidates must have relevant experience in ASD diagnostics and a passion for working with children and young people. The position emphasizes a strong commitment to providing specialist clinical services while promoting inclusive care for diverse backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Experience working as an independent practitioner managing a clinical caseload.
• Skills in undertaking assessments and developmental histories.
• Ability to develop streamlined patient care pathways.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist assessment and diagnostic services for autism.
• Independently undertake assessments and interpret information.
• Write reports following diagnostic assessments to departmental standards.

Skills

Experience in ASD diagnostics

Neurodevelopmental conditions expertise

Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Communication skills

Education

Relevant healthcare qualification

Job description

A Vacancy at East London NHS Foundation Trust

This is a BANK opportunity. Shift availability demand dependent. No guarantee of minimum number of hours. As this is a bank position the successful candidate(s) will already be experienced in ASD diagnostics.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Bank OT to join the Specialist Children and Young People’s Services (SCYPS) in Newham to undertake ASD diagnostic assessments.

This post sits within the Child Development Service, working in the CHAND (Children with Autism in Newham Diagnosis) team.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, forward‑thinking practitioner with experience of neurodevelopmental conditions and an interest in ASD to join our staff bank.

The post holder will undertake ASD assessment working in partnership with the wider multidisciplinary team, contribute to multi‑professional assessments of neurodevelopmental conditions in children and young people, provide specialist advice across professional boundaries, develop streamlined patient care pathways between nursing, GP’s and paediatricians, set up shared care arrangements for each child as appropriate, and discuss assessment outcomes with patients, carers and other health care professionals, promoting health education and self‑management whilst keeping the child, young person and family at the centre of all care.

To work within the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Team to provide a highly specialist assessment and diagnostic service in the CHAND team: to deliver highly specialist clinical services to children across the age range, as part of a multidisciplinary team, for assessment and diagnosis of autism and related disorders.

To undertake ADOS assessments as part of diagnostic assessments.

To work independently, as part of a team, and across teams, in partnership with parents, education, social care, voluntary and other health professionals to provide ASD diagnostics for clients, their families, carers and educators.

To provide advice to parents and professionals on creating supportive communication environments to enable young people to access information and to understand the interventions being offered.

To work as a highly skilled autonomous practitioner managing a clinical caseload.

Provide a service which takes into consideration working with children, young people and families from a range of cultural, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds in the context of a multicultural, diverse inner‑city London borough.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people’s lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Key Responsibilities

1. To be part of the CHAND diagnostic MDT team providing highly specialist assessment and diagnostic services to children and young people aged 0-11 years of age.
2. To independently undertake assessments and developmental histories as part of autism assessment.
3. To be able to undertake joint and single clinician assessments.
4. To provide highly skilled and specialist assessments for autism gathering and interpreting information from a number of community sources so as to reach a diagnostic conclusion.
5. To support more junior staff in the CHAND service.
6. To write reports following diagnostic assessments to departmental standards.

This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Dec 2025.