Neurodevelopmental Practitioner

HCRG Care Group; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent health services organization is seeking a Band 6 Neurodevelopmental Practitioner in Salisbury, UK. The role involves assessing children's communication and social interaction needs, working closely with parents and a multi-disciplinary team. Ideal candidates should be qualified Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Mental Health Nurses, or Psychologists. This position offers competitive salaries and opportunities for professional development. Full-time and part-time options are available.

Benefits

Competitive salary ranging from £38,682 to £46,580

Membership to My Reward Hub

Access to earned wages

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Opportunities for continuing professional development

Encouragement of innovation within a supportive culture

Commitment to high clinical standards and quality

Qualifications

• Appropriately qualified in a relevant health profession.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
• Ability to engage with children and families.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments of communication and social interaction needs.
• Collaborate with families and professionals for diagnosis.
• Provide post-diagnostic advice and support to stakeholders.

Skills

Specialist knowledge in communication disorders

Ability to conduct assessments

Collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams

Excellent communication skills

Education

Relevant professional qualification (Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Mental Health Nurse, or Psychologist)

Job description

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 full-time and part-time opportunities 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

Main Responsibilities

• Making assessment and differential diagnosis of a childs 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 childs 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

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2.

Job responsibilities

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 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 lifes 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 youre 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

Person Specification

General Requirements

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.