Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Specialist Neurodevelopmental Practitioner
The post holder will predominantly be responsible for supporting young people and families who access the neurodevelopmental service. This role will involve managing duty telephone calls, managing referrals into the service and assisting in the assessment of children and young people pursuing a neurodevelopmental diagnostic assessment. The post holder will also have opportunities to develop and facilitate intervention groups directly with children and young people or, if a nurse, train to be a nurse prescriber for the service depending on Service needs.
Closing date: 14 June 2026
Main duties of the job
* Contribute to the triaging of referrals for children and young people pursuing a diagnostic assessment for ADHD and/or Autism, often in the context of other suspected or diagnosed neurodevelopmental conditions, traumatic experiences, and emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.
* Contribute to the maintenance of diagnostic assessment waitlists.
* Carry out developmental history assessments directly with parents/carers, and create subsequent reports as part of the diagnostic assessment process.
* Gather, analyse, report, and present information as part of the diagnostic assessment and report‑writing process.
* Support, and with training, lead on structured interviews and observation‑based diagnostic assessments with a registered clinician.
* Create post‑diagnostic reports to include personalised recommendations.
* With appropriate training, contribute to the delivery of cognitive assessments, and subsequent interpretation and report creation, under supervision from an HCPC‑registered psychologist.
* In line with service demands, co‑facilitate psychoeducation and skills‑based intervention groups for children and young people with a range of presentations, with a registered clinician.
* Assess, plan, organise, and deliver goal‑based brief interventions with children, young people, and parents/carers, in line with skills, training, and experience, as agreed with the supervising clinician, and in line with service demands and clinical governance.
About us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill‑health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Qualifications
* HCPC/NMC/Social Work Registered Professional
* Post graduate diploma level specialist training in relevant field
Experience
* Experience working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental, behavioural, and/or emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties
* Previous experience of triaging and assessing ND conditions
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.
Salary: £51,657 to £58,785 per annum, pro rata, including HCAS.
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