Adult Neurodevelopmental Practitioner - Croydon - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Description

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

We are seeking enthusiastic and innovative neurodevelopmental practitioners to join our dynamic, multi-disciplinary services within the Croydon locality. You will be part of our Assessment and Liaison and Community Mental Health Teams.

About the Role

We are looking for a practitioner with a passion for working with adults with neurodevelopmental conditions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct specialist Autistic Spectrum Diagnostic clinical assessments.
• Support the development of a stepped-care approach to assist adults with neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Aim to improve access, experience, and outcomes for this population.
• 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 and CMHT team members in Neurodevelopmental disorders including Autism, ADHD and Learning Disabilities.
• To participate in the development and implementation of 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 and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
• To offer training to mainstream services.

What We Offer

• A collaborative and supportive work environment.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth.
• The chance to make a meaningful impact on the lives of adults who are neurodiverse.

Requirements

• Relevant qualifications and experience as a Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist, Pharmacist or Psychologist.

If you are enthusiastic about making a difference and meet the above criteria, we would love to hear from you

About the Location

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

Benefits

• 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: part-time 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 from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.

Other Benefits

• 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 evidence-based 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

• To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.
• To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
• To identify service gaps for people with Neurodevelopmental conditions. Working in collaboration with Neurodevelopmental Services and Commissioners to contribute to service improvements.
• To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects.

KR 4 Care or management of resources

• To take care of, and use carefully, the Trust's equipment and physical resources.
• To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.
• To ensure that the cleanliness and safe functioning and use of equipment that will be used by clients or other persons.
• To monitor and advise clients on the safe use of materials and processes.
• To ensure adequate confidential and safe storage for artefacts produced during the therapy process in line with professional guidelines.
• To be responsible for obtaining, storing and maintaining all materials and equipment for the provision of therapy in work setting within budgetary constraints.

KR 5 Management and supervision

• To collaborate with the Croydon A&L team leaders in providing clinical supervision to care coordinators within the Croydon Assessment and Liaison team who are case managing service uses with Neurodevelopmental diagnosis or requiring formulation of such needs.
• To supervise trainees within own area of specialism after completion of the relevant Supervision Training.

KR 6 Teaching and Training

• To provide specialist training to other professions as required to grow the knowledge of Neurodevelopmental conditions in A&L.
• To disseminate research/service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.

KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance

• To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.

KR 8 Research and development

• To undertake regular complex service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs.

KR 9 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from A&L Team Leader and a Neurodevelopmental senior professional according to discipline, professional body and Trust guidelines.
• To maintain own Continuing Professional Development in line with professional body and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and professional Standards for Continuing Professional Development.
• To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.
• To comply with professional body Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics/Standards of Proficiency.

KR 10 General

• To travel to home visits, community placements, meetings etc. as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
• To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management.

This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Oct 2025.