Job Introduction
You’ll be part of our friendly and welcoming team in Wiltshire that provide a specialist assessment service within the Neurodevelopmental Pathway for children and young people when investigating a diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD).
You’ll work in partnership with parents/carers and the multi-disciplinary team along with other agencies.
You will be a registered Children’s Nurse or Specialist Public Health Nurse.
You will support children and young people and their families with sleeping difficulties associated with neurodevelopmental conditions (Autism and ADHD) and will support the Neurodevelopmental pathway team in developing the Neurodevelopmental Specialist Nursing Services to children with neurodevelopmental conditions - particularly ADHD.
This is a part-time (30 hours per week) fixed-term (until 31st March 2026) opportunity.

Main Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with paediatric colleagues to identify children and young people (CYP) where ongoing assessment and support is required. This may include collecting information to support medicines review or monitoring care and treatment plans.
• Work collaboratively with other colleagues in the neurodevelopmental pathways team to integrate services to maximise efficiency and optimise the experience of the service for CYP and their families.
• Help therapeutically with children and young people (CYP) and their families to identify strengths and strategies for management at home and educational setting.
• Deliver ADHD medication review clinics across B&NES and/or Wiltshire as required to meet the need of the population, to support children and families where ADHD has been diagnosed. This will include sleep and management of behaviours.
• Help ensure that the care plan is kept up to date and that this is communicated to GP colleagues and other relevant health colleagues, including education settings.
• Work closely with School Nurse colleagues to identify children not in school but accessing care as part of pathways.
• Work alongside colleagues in other teams to increase capacity by up-skilling.

The Ideal Candidate

A FULL LIST OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND REQUIREMENTS CAN BE FOUND IN THE ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION.

About The Company
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.
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Package Description
As a Band 6 Neurodevelopmental Nurse you’ll be part of our valued team in Wiltshire

You will feel valued as a Band 6 Neurodevelopmental Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £37,338 - £44,962 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• 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 a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with paediatric colleagues to identify children and young people (CYP) where ongoing assessment and support is required. This may include collecting information to support medicines review or monitoring care and treatment plans.
• Work collaboratively with other colleagues in the neurodevelopmental pathways team to integrate services to maximise efficiency and optimise the experience of the service for CYP and their families.
• Help therapeutically with children and young people (CYP) and their families to identify strengths and strategies for management at home and educational setting.
• Deliver ADHD medication review clinics across B&NES and/or Wiltshire as required to meet the need of the population, to support children and families where ADHD has been diagnosed. This will include sleep and management of behaviours.
• Help ensure that the care plan is kept up to date and that this is communicated to GP colleagues and other relevant health colleagues, including education settings.
• Work closely with School Nurse colleagues to identify children not in school but accessing care as part of pathways.
• Work alongside colleagues in other teams to increase capacity by up-skilling