Highly Specialist Neurodevelopmental Practitioner

HCRG Care Group; Woking; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

5% Fringe Living Allowance

Career development opportunities

Wage access

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Highly Specialist Neurodevelopmental Practitioner to join a multi-disciplinary team in Surrey. You will conduct specialist autism assessments, support families, and contribute to care plans within the Social Communication Pathway.

You will work across Redhill, Woking, Guildford or Chertsey with travel across Surrey, delivering evidence-based practice and promoting professional development within a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional (AHP) with relevant professional registration.
• Minimum 2 years' post‑qualification experience and evidence of continued professional development.
• Specialist training and experience in autism and neurodevelopmental assessments, including ADOS‑2.
• Strong understanding of health, education, safeguarding and professional standards.

Responsibilities

• Conduct specialist autism and neurodevelopmental assessments, contributing to multidisciplinary diagnostic decision-making.
• Develop evidence-based care plans and deliver high-quality, child-centred care.
• Prepare assessment reports and contribute to EHCPs and multidisciplinary care planning.
• Provide guidance and training to colleagues and partner agencies.
• Build partnerships with schools and healthcare professionals to support service delivery.
• Participate in clinical supervision and ongoing professional development.

Skills

Nurse registration

AHP registration

Autism expertise

ADOS-2 experience

Caseload management

Clinical communication

Job description

As a Highly Specialist Neurodevelopmental Practitioner you will be part of our valued team receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: £49,387.00 - 56,515.00 FTE Band 7 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions + 5% Fringe Living Allowance. Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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.

• £49,387.00 - 56,515.00 FTE Band 7 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions + 5% Fringe Living Allowance.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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.

Job Description

Provide specialist assessments for children referred for neurodevelopmental evaluations, contributing to multidisciplinary diagnostic decisions for autism within a multi-disciplinary team. Support children, parents, carers, and professionals throughout the assessment process by providing evidence-based advice, guidance, and specialist knowledge. Deliver high-quality, child-centred care in line with best practice, commissioning requirements, and service standards, while contributing to the ongoing development and improvement of the Social Communication Pathway to ensure service objectives and KPIs are achieved.

Location

Based in Redhill, Woking, Guildford, or Chertsey, with travel required across Surrey.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct specialist autism and neurodevelopmental assessments, contributing to multidisciplinary diagnostic decision-making.
• Manage complex cases independently, developing evidence‑based care plans and delivering high-quality, child‑centred care.
• Provide specialist advice, support, and guidance to children, families, carers, colleagues, and partner agencies.
• Prepare assessment reports and contribute to Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and multidisciplinary care planning.
• Build and maintain effective partnerships with schools, healthcare professionals, community teams, and other stakeholders.
• Deliver training, supervision, and clinical support to colleagues and other professionals.
• Contribute to service development, policy reviews, quality improvement initiatives, and operational objectives.
• Participate in multi‑agency meetings, safeguarding activities, and risk management processes as required.
• Maintain high standards of clinical governance, audit, data reporting, and evidence-based practice.
• Take responsibility for ongoing professional development and participate in clinical supervision.

Person Requirements

Essential

• Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional (AHP) with relevant professional registration.
• Minimum 2 years' post‑qualification experience and evidence of continued professional development.
• Specialist training and experience in autism and neurodevelopmental assessments, including ADOS‑2.
• Strong understanding of relevant health, education, social care, safeguarding, and professional standards.
• Experience managing caseloads, report writing, and working with children and young people.
• Excellent communication, relationship‑building, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams and supporting, supervising, or training colleagues.

Desirable

• Experience using EMIS.
• Training in ADI‑R and/or QbTest, with experience contributing to autism assessments.
• Experience delivering clinical supervision, training, and workforce development activities.

Other Requirements

• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work-related travel.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.