Neurodevelopmental Practitioner

**Neurodevelopmental Practitioner**:**Band 5**:
**Main area**

Childrens Neurodevelopmental Assessment
**Grade**

Band 5
**Contract**

Permanent
**Hours**
- Full time
- Part time

37.5 hours per week (Full and part time hours available)
**Job ref**

201-22-003

**Site**

Truro Health Park
**Town**

TRURO
**Salary**

£25,655 - £31,534 Per annum/Pro rata
**Salary period**

Yearly
**Closing**

Today at 23:59

**Thank you for your interest in working for **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust**:
**Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust prides itself in striving to be an employer of choice.**
- Our Trust objectives are:_
- Improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities by working in partnership and creating opportunities for our citizens.
- Provide safe, high quality, timely and compassionate care and support, in local communities wherever possible, and informed by experience of people who use services.
- Make Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly a great place to work in health and social care.
- Working efficiently so health and care funding give maximum benefits.
- Create the underpinning infrastructure and capabilities that are critical to delivering high quality care and support.

All external appointments to the Trust will be required to attend a full Trust Corporate Induction which will be held at Carew House, Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road, Bodmin, PL31 2QN.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

We are looking for a diverse range of registered health practitioners to join our established Children's Autism Assessment team here in Cornwall. We are interested in hearing from newly qualified and experienced practitioners who have an interest in Autism and Social Communication difficulties.The roles would be suitable for Occupational Therapists ,Speech and Language Therapists, Nurses, psychologists including CAPS.

We are a multidisciplinary team of nurses, allied health professionals, psychologists with access to paediatricians and psychiatry. The main focus of the new posts will be to undertake Autism diagnostic assessments but we also have an opportunity to introduce some pre-diagnostic intervention therapy PACT over the next 2 years

The team work closely together including partnered assessments, feedback and clinical consensus meetings and participating in weekly diagnostic meetings

We will train you in all the necessary interventions and assessment tools, provide supervision and mentoring into these new roles

We work for a forward thinking Children's Service line that sits in Cornwall Foundation Trust and are currently developing our new vision and identity for Children Community Health Services in Cornwall.

We would love to hear from any registered health professional who has experience of working in Children's Services to discuss these new roles and would suggest you give us a call if you are interested
- To achieve our Trust objectives, we prioritise the development of our staff. To support this, the following opportunities are available:_
- Protected CPD time for registered staff
- Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
- Leadership and Management development programmes
- Coaching and mentoring opportunities
- A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
- Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
- A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
- Individual professional development programmes
- Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:_
- Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
- Free DBS checks where required
- Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme

We are committed to diversity and equality of employment including the employment of current and former service users.

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The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. In order to comply with our duty of care, we require our staff to have the COVID vaccine and we will ask for proof of vaccination during the recruitment