Neurodevelopmental Practitioner

NHS; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Salisbury is seeking a Band 6 Health Professional to join their team in providing specialized assessments within the Neurodevelopmental Pathway for children and young people regarding autism and ADHD. Candidates will conduct assessments, collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, and provide diagnostic and post-diagnostic support. This role offers flexible full-time and part-time opportunities with a salary ranging from £38,682 to £46,580, along with comprehensive benefits and continuous professional development.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to discounts and cashback offers

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Online learning and professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Mental Health Nurse, or Psychologist.
• Experience in providing diagnostic assessments for children and young people.
• Ability to collaborate with parents/carers, multidisciplinary teams, and other agencies.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and differential diagnosis for children's communication and social interaction needs.
• Collate information for diagnostic outcomes in collaboration with the family and multidisciplinary team.
• Support in varied aspects of diagnostic assessment and post-diagnostic advice.

Skills

Specialist assessment knowledge

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Clinical judgement

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nursing, or Psychology

Job description

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Health Professional to join our friendly and welcoming team in Wiltshire that provides 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, the multi-disciplinary team and 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 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 and 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.

Benefits

• £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 as well as cashback and voucher offers.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life 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 as 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.

About us

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.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we may need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

Details

Date posted: 12 December 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

HCRGCG/TP/40134/17923

Job locations

HCRG Care Group, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 6AT

Employer details

HCRG Care Group, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 6AT

Website: https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

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.