<div><h3>Nurse Consultant/Allied Health Professional (Autism Service)</h3><p><b>The closing date is 18 June 2026</b></p><p>This is an exciting opportunity to join the Great North Childrens Hospital in a newly established Nurse Consultant /AHP Autism role. We are seeking a highly motivated, values-driven and experienced senior nurse or allied health professional to provide expert clinical leadership within our Autism and Special Educational Needs pathways.</p><p>The postholder will play a key leadership role in enhancing patient experience and outcomes, contributing to service transformation, and strengthening autism provision for children, young people and their families.</p><h3>Main duties of the job</h3><p>The post will operate across the four key domains of practice: clinical expertise, leadership, education, and service development.</p><p>Key responsibilities include:</p><ul><li>Deliver expert clinical assessment, decision-making, and first-line triage within autism pathways</li><li>Provide clinical leadership across multidisciplinary teams, influencing practice and supporting workforce development</li><li>Lead and contribute to service development, quality improvement and innovation in autism services</li><li>Develop and deliver education and training programmes to enhance capability across teams</li><li>Represent the service locally, regionally, and nationally through professional networks and partnerships</li><li>Support Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and contribute to statutory processes where required</li><li>Strengthen integrated working across hospital and community services, including local authority and voluntary sector partners</li></ul><h3>About us</h3><p>As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.</p><p>With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:</p><ul><li>Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)</li><li>Freeman Hospital</li><li>Newcastle Dental Hospital</li><li>Newcastle Fertility Centre</li><li>Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria</li><li>Northern Genetics Service</li></ul><p>These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.</p><p>We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.</p><h3>Job responsibilities</h3><p><b>About the Service</b></p><ul><li>The role sits within Community Childrens Services at the Great North Childrens Hospital and will work closely with Community Paediatrics and wider multidisciplinary teams</li><li>The service is undergoing significant development to meet increasing demand for autism assessments and improve pathways for children aged 04 years, alongside wider special educational needs provision</li><li>You will contribute to delivering high-quality, family-centred care while supporting system-wide improvements across health, education and social care</li></ul><p><b>What We Offer</b></p><ul><li>A unique opportunity to shape and lead the development of autism services</li><li>Supportive, forward-thinking multidisciplinary teams</li><li>Opportunities for professional development and strategic influence
</li><li>A role with real impact on patient care, experience, and system transformation</li></ul><h3>Person Specification</h3><h3>Qualifications & Education</h3><ul><li>Registered Nurse, Midwife or AHP</li><li>Current NMC/HCPC registration</li><li>Possession of a Masters Degree or established on pathway and able to provide evidence of academic achievement at this level</li><li>Evidence of specialist education related to area of clinical expertise</li><li>Possession of or working towards a Doctorate</li></ul><h3>Knowledge & Experience</h3><ul><li>Evidence of supervision and assessment in practice</li><li>Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context</li><li>Has understanding / experience of adult / child safeguarding</li><li>Highly developed advanced specialist in field and applies theory to practice</li><li>Has expert knowledge in practice, research, education, and leadership in specialist area and within the field of your profession</li><li>Extensive experience of clinical work in specialist area</li><li>Audit / research experience</li><li>Extensive clinical and leadership experience in the specialist field</li><li>Experience of contributing to the development of your profession at a regional / national level</li><li>Experience / evidence of professional leadership in relation to their service at a regional and/or national level</li></ul><h3>Skills & Abilities</h3><ul><li>Effective report writing skills</li><li>Effective organisation and time management skills</li><li>Ability to prioritise a complex workload and work in a rapidly changing environment</li><li>Acts autonomously and independently within appropriate organisational boundaries and achieve results and outcomes based on own decision making</li><li>Is able to assimilate risk / benefits and rationalise decision based on extensive knowledge, skills & experience</li><li>Current driving licence if relevant to role</li><li>Moving and handling patients and objects in line with Trust guidelines using appropriate aids</li></ul><h3>Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3><p>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.</p><p>The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust</p></div>