Are you an experienced practitioner with a passion for working with children who are neurodiverse and their families? Can you develop positive relationships to support and empower children and their families to identify needs and make robust plans to meet them? Do you understand the challenges children, and their families experience when they have additional needs? Can you inspire colleagues across the system? Do you thrive on being creative, and collaborative when problem solving? If so, you might be the person we are looking for. The Role This exciting new role will give you the opportunity to work alongside a range of ND expertise in the city. Working closely with colleagues, children and their families you will help us to better understand the challenges they face when children have additional needs and help shape our work to meet these needs. You will deliver a range of information, advice and guidance for children, families and practitioners, and you will be central to improving the way in which we as a city support children, families and practitioners to navigate the many challenges and successes of being neurodiverse. You will ensure that practitioners across the workforce are able to map a child's individual profile and plan to meet their needs. You will ensure information, advice and guidance is provided to children, families and practitioners in the most effective way to ensure that improved outcomes are achieved, including reducing demand on high-cost specialist services. There will be occasional evening and out of hours working. The ideal candidate You will need to have/be A nationally recognised qualification such NVQ level 4 or other higher-level qualification or equivalent experience. An up to date working knowledge of safeguarding children and young adults Experience of working with young people and their families and have a positive attitude to helping young adults and delivering a safe and effective offer. Experience of delivering training for parents and professionals would be an advantage. You need to have an up-to-date working knowledge of neurodiversity and, the impact it can have on children and families. A car driver with access to transport or able to easily access public transport to move across Portsmouth City. Please ensure that you read the full job profile attached for the details and expectations of this role, paying particular attention the section 'Who is the person' as you will need to refer to this when completing your Personal statement. Working Arrangements: The successful candidate will be expected to work from the office base at the civic offices twice a week in line with the council's hybrid working policy. Contact Details for an Informal Discussion: Claire Mason, Neurodiversity Service Lead, claire.mason@portsmouthcc.gov.uk or call 023 92 841273 Interview date: 25th March 2026 Application process We anonymise applications during application & shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. As part of your application, we ask that you complete apersonal statement, this statement is crucial and is where you must demonstrate how you meet the requirements of the job against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person'points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills.This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience. We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found at Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal We are committed to offering an interview to all those candidates that qualify under our corporate commitments and meet the minimum criteria, however, for roles that receive a large number of applications, we will select the candidates that best meet the minimum criteria. If applying as a secondment you will need permission from your current line manager releasing you for this secondment. Please state you have this on your Personal statement. You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it. We are unable to offer sponsorship on this role Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616 800.