Specialist Practitioner Autism/ADHD Diagnostician Development Post

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare Trust in the UK is looking for registered Occupational Therapists or Speech and Language Therapists to join their team as autism/ADHD diagnosticians. This role, for 2 days a week, involves clinical assessments and collaboration with multidisciplinary professionals. Ideal candidates should have a strong understanding of neurodiversity, effective communication skills, and relevant qualifications. We offer comprehensive training and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Registered with clinical professional body.
• Full understanding of relevant policies for working with children.
• Commitment to continuous professional development in Neurodiversity.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based clinical Autism and ADHD assessments.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary team for detailed diagnostic assessments.
• Engage in supervision and commit to development of competencies.

Skills

Effective inter-personal skills

Good communication skills

Leadership skills

Time management skills

Education

Degree in relevant field

Post-graduate ADHD/ASD diagnostic training

Job description

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 apply for an exciting band 6-7 development post as an autism/ADHD diagnostician.

Please note the role is for 2 days a week and will be mainly clinic based. You will be provided with the relevant training and supervision for the role. You will work through competencies to move through your development.

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 be accountable in own area of clinical responsibility, ensuring the delivery of evidence based clinical Autism and ADHD assessments, interventions and practice.

To demonstrate good clinical skills in Autism and ADHD assessments and when needed provide supervision of staff undertaking assessments and interventions.

To liaise closely with other members of the MDT to ensure a detailed and complete diagnostic assessment is completed in line with NICE guidance.

Be responsible for ensuring clinical outcome data is routinely entered and appropriately collated

To employ excellent presentation skills to promote multi-disciplinary and interagency liaison and collaborative practice to broad range of audiences, including other professionals and service users.

To continuously evaluate the level of clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures

To maintain knowledge of current research and clinical developments and to take the lead in research/audit within adult autism diagnosis.

To engage in the supervision process and commit to development competencies

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. Please note that as this is a development post - job descriptions for the band 6 and band 7 role are available.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Registered with appropriate clinical professional body: e.g. Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Nursing, Speech and Language Therapy or Psychology (Educational, Counselling, Clinical or Forensic) and be registered with the relevant statutory body (NMC, HCPC, ACP, BABCP, UKCP, SWE, SCW, SSSC or NISCC or BACP)
• Educated to degree level or equivalent as required for registration with professional body.
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation and guidance relevant to working with Children.
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit
• Evidenced commitment to CPD and advancement of knowledge in Neurodiversity
• Advanced clinical reasoning skills and understanding of the varied presentations of Autism/ADHD
• Advanced understanding of relevant clinical practice, in particular Autism/ADHD diagnostics, standards and protocols
• Post-graduate ADHD/ASD diagnostic training e.g., Conners, SNAP, ADI-R, ADOS, DISCO

Experience

• Evidence of suitable post-registration professional practice, in hospital or other healthcare setting
• Demonstrable experience of working with neurodiversity
• Evidence of leadership skills e.g. managing people, service development
• Demonstrable track record of assessing ASD or ADHD using recommended tools

Skills and Competencies

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring and teaching
• Able to demonstrate good communication skills across a range of mediums
• Able to communicate effectively and sensitively with children and their carers
• Excellent organisation and time management skills

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.