Neurodiversity Clinical Co-ordinator

4 weeks ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Children North East Full time

Children North East exists because growing up can be hard. We work with babies, children and young people through the rollercoaster of growing up in their families, schools and communities.

We are looking to appoint a Neurodiversity Clinical Co-ordinator to provide day to day group and 1:1 support, initial assessment, and ongoing assessment which ensures that the health and wellbeing of young people aged between 9- 25 years in the North East is provided to the highest standards.

This role will work closely with the SEND/Neuro Team Manager to ensure that referrals are distributed across the team, fairly and ethically.

This post will hold a counselling caseload as agreed by the SEND/ Neuro Team Manager.

**Line Management Responsibilities**
- Report directly to the SEND/Neuro Team manager
- Have management responsibility for sessional staff, students and volunteers.
- This role also includes working with external partners, building strong and lasting relationships.

**Main Responsibilities**
- To work within the policies, guidelines, procedures and code of conduct of Children North East.
- To develop and maintain appropriate working relationships adhering to Children North East’s values and behaviours.
- To support the SEND/Neuro Team Manager and with service development.
- To contribute to the coordination, delivery, and day to day support of neurodiversity work and neurodiversity specific counselling, monitoring and evaluating service delivery in line with agreed outputs and outcomes.
- Improve outcomes for children and young people between the ages of 9 - 25 living in the North East, enabling them to make informed choices about issues which affect their emotional wellbeing and mental health.
- To contribute to the planning and delivery of charity wide training opportunities for staff.
- To lead on the planning and delivery of neurodiversity group work and 1:1 models to be shared within the SEND/Neuro Team work.
- To provide one to one counselling support and promote a safe and young people friendly environment to establish a relationship of trust.
- To signpost/refer children and young people to other specialist services, including children and young people’s services.
- Build a strong relationship with statutory mental health services to support the assessment and post-diagnosis process for neurodivergent children and young people.
- To advocate on behalf of children and young people on issues that are important to them.
- To champion the requirements of the BACP/UKCP code of ethics across the SEND/Neuro Team.
- Support the Development and Counselling Team working with neurodivergent young people, coordinating peer to peer reflective practice groups and facilitate relevant training CPD opportunities for the Counselling team in partnership with clinical coordinator/s.
- Coordinate and manage peer supervision to students on placement who are providing counselling to neurodivergent young people.
- Follow Children North East’s Safeguarding policy and procedures so as to ensure children and young people’s wellbeing and safety, ensuring the quality of provision to clients.
- Promote a positive culture of safeguarding children, young people, and adults.
- To maintain accurate and confidential records in respect neurodivergent young people involved in the counselling process and to work with the Youth Counselling and Development Team Manager to produce appropriate project reports, monitoring and evaluation information directly related to identified targets, and case studies.
- To ensure children and young people’s rights are valued and respected, making sure service users inform and influence decision making that brings about change.
- To develop excellent working relationships between counsellors and other staff and services at Children North East.
- To link directly other statutory and voluntary organisations in order to contribute to the common ambition to improve the emotional wellbeing and mental health of young people, including training opportunities with both external organisations and Children North East.
- To contribute to the work of Team Managers and Clinical Coordinator/s across the service to lead in revising, updating, and writing of new clinical policies and codes of practice to ensure all team members are working to necessary ethical and legal standards with neurodiversity counselling.
- Work alongside the SEND/Neuro Team Manager, monitoring the balance between counsellor capacity and client demand and keep client waiting times to the acceptable levels, which may be changed from time to time.
- Take responsibility alongside the Clinical Coordinator/s for client feedback, ensuring comments are reviewed and acted on as appropriate.

Please note CVs will not be accepted.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 22.5 per week

**Salary**: £32,572.00-£33,255.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay

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