Specialist Practitioner

Job summary

Join an exciting, innovative and dynamic service dedicated to delivering outstanding care.

As a key clinician within our Core Needs Project and part of the Experts At Hand offer, you will deliver specialist clinical care to your own caseload and across the wider service. Working primarily within schools, you will assess children and young people with neurodiverse needs and formulate person-centred care plans. This role sits within the broader Children's Neurodevelopmental Team, so expertise and knowledge across neurodevelopmental presentations are valued.

You will be an autonomous clinician, accountable for your own clinical practice, delivering evidence-based triage, screening and diagnostic assessments for neurodevelopmental referrals. You will review referral forms, complete holistic and functional assessments, and provide clear advice and care plans.

You will support the Clinical Team Leader in developing and refining our neurodevelopmental assessment pathway, sharing specialist knowledge across the team, providing clinical supervision to peers and junior staff, and building strong links with our wider support and intervention pathways.

You will guide colleagues undertaking referral screening and low-risk triage, and help ensure consistent, safe signposting and risk assessment.

You will practise as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT), working within a fully integrated partnership across health, social care and education, delivering truly joined-up support.

Main duties of the job

• Demonstrates specialist clinical skills when working with education settings as part of the Experts At Hand offer, completing functional and holistic assessments of young people's needs and formulating advice and plans.
• Demonstrates specialist clinical skills in Autism and ADHD triage, referral screening, and diagnostic assessment.
• Demonstrates specialist clinical skills within Neurodiversity to support service development.
• Provides specialist advice to other disciplines within their specific area of practice and supervises staff undertaking referral screening, as well as providing clinical advice to junior staff undertaking low-risk triage and signposting referrals.
• May undertake clinical audits and participate in research activities.
• Is responsible for their own practice and ensures effective patient/service user care is maintained, demonstrating effective time-management skills.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire.Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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