A Vacancy at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge).
Are you passionate about improving the lives of children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs? Do you enjoy leading, inspiring and developing others while remaining clinically involved? If so, we would love to hear from you!
We are looking for an experienced Lead Neurodevelopmental Practitioner to join our Community Paediatric Service and provide compassionate, visible leadership across our neurodevelopmental pathway. In this role, you will shape and lead a skilled nursing and allied health workforce, ensuring children & families receive timely, high‑quality & evidence‑based care.
You will work closely with families, clinicians and partners, playing a key role in complex neurodevelopmental and diagnostic assessments, including ADOS. You will support and develop staff, drive service improvement, and contribute to governance, audit & quality initiatives that genuinely make a difference.
This is a varied and rewarding role where your clinical expertise, leadership skills and commitment to children with SEND will be valued and supported.
You will be a Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional, educated to Master’s level or with equivalent experience including senior experience in community paediatrics or neurodevelopmental services.
Join us and help shape a service you can be proud of—where children, families and staff are at the heart of everything we do.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 21 May.
Independent prescribing and ADOS training are required or a willingness to work towards them.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
* Lead and deliver the skill mix Neuro‑developmental model across Cambridgeshire, including nursing/allied health professional activity and advanced skills such as independent prescribing and diagnostic assessments.
* Provide effective leadership and direction to the nursing/allied health team and administrators, ensuring operational day‑to‑day management, resource development and clinical direction.
* Act as an expert clinician and role model, supporting delivery of an evidence‑based commissioned service within a multidisciplinary team.
* Plan and implement improvements to meet EEC organisational obligations for improving outcomes for Children and Young People with SEND; respond to local area inspections.
* Provide highly specialised interventions for a defined caseload and advise colleagues on care for children and young people with complex needs.
* Provide expert advice across professional boundaries and streamline care pathways.
* Serve as a prescriber (non‑medical prescribing qualification required if appropriate).
* Participate in diagnostic assessments (e.g., ADOS) and train colleagues.
* Manage the nursing/allied health team within community paediatric services.
* Promote and be involved in developing practice through research linking policy, national strategy and best practice.
* Develop clinical guidelines, protocols, SOPs and patient information resources.
* Lead clinical audit and support evidence‑based, safe, effective care.
* Design, deliver and evaluate training programmes for the skill mix team.
* Participate in quality visits, good practice visits and governance reporting.
* Maintain quality information, audit, incident, complaints and clinical risk management.
* Support the compassion in practice agenda and 6C’s values and behaviours.
* Attend mandatory training as required.
* Raise awareness of the importance of service provision for vulnerable children and young people with SEND.
* Promote the protection and safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults.
* Implement NICE guidance and other statutory/best practice guidelines.
* Prevent and control infection.
* Contribute to risk identification, reduction and monitoring of quality and compliance.
* Support the Head of Service in productivity and financial management of the clinical service.
* Support the Clinical Lead to ensure compliance with CQC, Ofsted and contractual requirements.
Communication
* Communicate with children, young people and families, using advanced communication skills, especially when delivering difficult or unwelcome news.
* Build partnership with carers to enable informed choices about care and treatment.
* Effectively communicate and resolve complex conflicting interests.
* Influence decisions regarding service delivery through meetings and change management.
* Maintain positive relationships with clinical colleagues, divisions and the Trust, as well as key stakeholders internally and externally.
* Analyse and report on data, communicating results appropriately.
Budgetary Responsibility
* Act as an authorised signatory.
* Order stationery, maintain stock control.
* Work with Clinical Service to meet financial targets.
* Collaborate with Head of Service and Clinical Leads to develop business cases and service level agreements.
* Participate in setting yearly income targets and expenditure budgets.
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional at Master’s level or equivalent experience.
* Senior experience in community paediatrics or neurodevelopmental services.
* Non‑medical prescribing qualification (if appropriate) or willingness to attain.
* Ready to undertake independent prescribing and ADOS training.
This advert closes on Sunday 31 May 2026.
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