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 an appropriately qualified Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Mental Health Nurse, or Psychologist.
You will be expected to provide contributions of assessment information to the Neurodevelopmental Pathway, as well as contributing to the team in their specialist areas of knowledge. The Neurodevelopmental Pathway provides robust assessment of children and young people with suspected autism and/ or ADHD, and appropriate onward signposting and referral.
As a Neurodevelopmental Practitioner you will support the service in varied aspects of diagnostic assessment and post diagnostic advice to parents, carers, education staff and children and young people.

Main Responsibilities

• Making assessment and differential diagnosis of a child’s communication and social interaction needs through the use of highly specialised standardised and non-standardised assessments.
• Reflection on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of a child’s communication, informal observation, specialist knowledge and consultation with parents/carers, and other professionals (Possibly including ADOS, virtual assessment, telephone consultation and completion of diagnostic paperwork)
• Use specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements/decision making for case management
• To accurately collate key information gathered in order to come to the most appropriate diagnostic outcome through liaison with the child/ young person, their family and the Multi-Disciplinary Team

The Ideal Candidate

• Making assessment and differential diagnosis of a child’s communication and social interaction needs through the use of highly specialised standardised and non-standardised assessments.
• Reflection on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of a child’s communication, informal observation, specialist knowledge and consultation with parents/carers, and other professionals (Possibly including ADOS, virtual assessment, telephone consultation and completion of diagnostic paperwork)
• Use specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements/decision making for case management
• To accurately collate key information gathered in order to come to the most appropriate diagnostic outcome through liaison with the child/ young person, their family and the Multi-Disciplinary Tea