Job overview

Surrey and Borders is seeking an experienced Locum Band 7 Specialist Neurodevelopmental Practitioner with ADOS expertise to join our Child and Young People’s Neurodevelopmental Service.

The postholder will play a key role in delivering high-quality ASD and ADHD diagnostic assessments, including dual ASD/ADHD assessments, working as part of a multidisciplinary team within a community CAMHS setting. This is a clinically focused role requiring strong assessment, formulation, and report-writing skills.

Working pattern: Community-based service.

Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm

Main Address: Theta Building Lyon Way, Frimley, Surrey, GU16 7ER and in Azalea House, Farnham Road Hospital, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7LX. 

Please note: The Role may require for you to travel to other SABP hubs to complete Dual and ADOS 2 assessments

Main duties of the job

• o complete ADOS assessments as part of multi-disciplinary ASD diagnostic pathways.

• To undertake dual ASD and ADHD diagnostic assessments in line with national and local guidance.

• To gather, analyse and integrate complex assessment information in order to produce high-quality diagnostic and post-diagnostic reports.

• To contribute to the triage and management of referrals into the Neurodevelopmental Service.

• To work collaboratively with medical, psychology and wider MDT colleagues during assessment and formulation.

• To provide clinical supervision to an Assistant Psychologist undertaking developmental history assessments and drafting reports.

Working for our organisation

Working for our organization

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organizations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.