Systemic Neurodiversity Practitioner

The role of the Systemic Neurodiversity Practitioner is to provide comprehensive support to children, young people, and their families with diverse and often overlapping needs. These may include Autism, ADHD, mental health challenges, and other neurodiversity-related needs. The service prioritises personalised, family-centered, and holistic care, ensuring timely, coordinated, and community-based support. As a compassionate and dedicated practitioner, the post holder will work directly with children, young people, and their families, holding a caseload and developing personalised care plans. They will advocate for the needs of individuals and their families, ensuring access to essential services and promoting empowerment, independence, and well-being. This service runs Monday to Saturday 8am -8pm. This is a full-time position with the flexibility to work evenings and weekends as required., + Support children and young people to remain in their communities wherever possible and prevent escalation to acute or specialist services through proactive intervention.

• Family-Centred Planning
+ Collaborate with children, young people, and their families to co-produce care plans reflecting their lived experiences, needs, and preferences. + Ensure plans are adaptable, goal-oriented, and inclusive of family input.
• Advocacy and Communication
+ Act as an advocate for children, young people, and families, ensuring their voices are central in decision-making. + Maintain open, respectful communication with families, professionals, and service providers.
• Creative and Flexible Engagement
+ Use creative approaches to engage effectively with children and young people, considering diverse communication needs.
• Access to Services
+ Source appropriate interventions, resources, and services in collaboration with other professionals and stakeholders. + Signpost families to community assets and additional support as required.
• Empowerment and Independence
+ Support children, young people, and families to build resilience and develop solution-focused strategies. + Promote autonomy and self-expression in all aspects of care.
• Participation in Multi-Agency Working
+ Attend and contribute to multi-agency meetings, such as Team arounf the Family, Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings, and discharge planning sessions. + Advocate for timely implementation of decisions to avoid delays in care.
• System Advocacy
+ Identify and address barriers within systems, challenging processes where necessary to ensure equitable access to care.


• Relevant undergraduate degree or equivalent experience working with children, young people, and families with neurodiversity-related needs.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a commitment to family-centred care.
• Experience in collaborative working within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Proven ability to manage a caseload, prioritising tasks effectively.
• Knowledge of safeguarding and child protection policies.
• Driving licence and access to vehicle for work purposes
Desirable
• Experience working with Autism, ADHD, and/or mental health services.
• Understanding of trauma-informed and systemic practice.
  
  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.


• Salary of £30,000 with Group Pension
• 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