Band 7 Highly Specialist Autism Practitioner
HCRG Care Group, Hare Street, Harlow
Band 7 Highly Specialist Autism Practitioner
£57528-£64750
HCRG Care Group, Hare Street, Harlow
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 3 days ago, 8 May | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: a26313d4e1a649a084cfd0c9ad51cac8
Location ref: Hare Street, Harlow
Full Job Description
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission, Our JADES team includes a Senior Clinical Psychologist, Community Paediatricians, Specialist Speech and Language Therapists, an Occupational Therapist, Specialist Neurodevelopmental Nurse and ADHD Nurse, alongside other dedicated colleagues. We work closely together to provide high-quality autism assessments for children and young people, drawing on a range of professional perspectives and areas of expertise., Contribute to multidisciplinary autism assessments for children and young people, using information from formal and informal sources.
- Undertake assessment activities including direct assessment, developmental history taking, educational observations, formulation, and multidisciplinary discussions.
- Deliver assessments across a range of settings, including Child Development Centres, Family Hubs, and educational settings where required.
- Work closely with children, young people, and families, ensuring clear, compassionate communication and appropriate support throughout the assessment process.
- Share specialist knowledge and evidence-informed practice with colleagues and partner agencies.
- Support and supervise junior colleagues, contributing to the wider multidisciplinary team.
- Collaborate with wider services including Community Nursing, Healthy Family Teams, Community Paediatrics, and therapy services.
- Engage in regular clinical supervision, team meetings, and ongoing professional development.
We are looking for a motivated and skilled Clinical Psychologist, registered Allied Health Professional or Nurse to join our JADES (Journey of Autism Diagnosis and Early Support) Team on a permanent basis within HCRG Care Group. This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and experienced multidisciplinary team working within the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service., Registered Health and Care Professions Council Allied Health Professional or Nursing and Midwifery Council Nurse, with experience supporting children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs, including autism. - Strong clinical assessment skills, sound clinical judgement, and a good understanding of this client group.
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to assessment and diagnostic decision-making.
- Excellent communication skills, with a thoughtful and compassionate approach to clinical practice.
- Desirable: Experience within autism assessment services and familiarity with standardised tools such as ADOS-2 (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition).
- Commitment to ongoing professional development, with willingness to develop specialist assessment skills through training and supervision.
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Direct job link
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