Adult Neurodevelopmental Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you passionate about supporting individuals with autism and/or ADHD? Do you want to make a positive difference to people's lives, while using the full range of your skills and experiences?

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and innovative neurodevelopmental practitioners to work within the Croydon locality Assessment and Liaison and Community Mental Health Teams.

The post holder will undertake specialist clinical assessments and support the development of a stepped-care approach to supporting adults with neurodevelopmental disorders with a view to improving access, experience and outcomes for this population.

The main responsibilities of this role include:

To provide specialist interventions according to discipline including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
To offer expert consultation and advice to A&L team members in Neurodevelopmental disorders including Autism, ADHD and Learning Disabilities.
To develop and implement a stepped care pathway for people presenting with neurodevelopmental disorders.
To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
To promote service evaluation, audit and research.
To scope clinical gaps for people with Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment an discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor
To offer training to mainstream services.

There are great opportunities for service development, teaching, training and the supervision of others within this role. The service also offers opportunities to undertake research.

A wide range of CPD opportunities are available and the post holder will be supported to develop skills in their areas of interest.

Appropriate training and supervision will be provided.

About the location:

This role will be based at Jeanette Wallace House, Eldridge Road, Croydon CR0 1ER

Benefits:

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
Work life balance,flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: parttime working and job sharing.
Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes.
Car lease,our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
Accommodation,our staff benefit fromkeyworker housing which is available on selected sites
NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of wellknown retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Childcare vouchers
Staff restaurants

Key Responsibilities:

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care

To provide specialist assessments, formulations and interventions for individuals and their support network where the identified client has a Neurodevelopmental condition such as Autism, ADHD and Learning Disabilities.
To provide culturally appropriate interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
To provide reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users and their families.
To select and deliver evidencebased specialist interventions, drawing from a spectrum of ideas and models, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary, based on the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple, family or group.
To promote psychological support for carers (or families as appropriate) of referred clients.

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

To contribute to the effective working Croydon A&L team.
To contribute to the team or service's delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
To liaise with the service/s MDT and other professionals.

KR 3 Policy and service development