Overview
Go back Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Neurodevelopmental Specialist Practitioner
The closing date is 03 February 2026
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.
Main duties of the job
* Contribute to the triaging of referrals for children and young people pursuing a diagnostic assessment for ASC and/or ADHD, 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 a 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.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Job responsibilities
Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.
Person Specification
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
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.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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