Trainee Neurodevelopment Practitioner

Job Description

POSITION: Permanent, Full Time

HOURS: Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm

LOCATION: Home Based

SALARY: £33,000 - £38,000 progressing to £40,000 upon graduation

START DATE: 17th October 2022

OUR COMPANY

Founded in 2013, Healios is a leading specialist digital healthcare company working to empower patients and families affected by mental health, autism and ADHD conditions to support long-term outcomes and wellbeing. Our mission is to bring exceptional healthcare to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

Healios is pioneering the world’s first digitalisation of NHS Mental Health Trust outpatient services, covering multiple complex specialist assessment and psychological intervention services. By digitising entire clinical pathways, we enable children, adults and their family members to receive and seamlessly transition between clinical services from the comfort of their home.

You can find out more about us by clicking here!

OUR TEAM

An exciting new opportunity has arisen within the UK’s largest autism and ADHD service. We are pleased to be recruiting to Healios Academy, a career development initiative and are seeking enthusiastic clinicians to join our team.

We have a large, highly skilled team who are home-based.

At Healios we embrace diversity and are looking for the right candidates who will help us in our mission of providing timely autism and ADHD diagnostic assessments and post diagnostic support.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Healios Academy is our in-house clinical skills and development programme. Through Healios Academy, we train healthcare professionals from a variety of backgrounds to assess Autism and ADHD using ADOS and ADI-R assessment tools.

This innovative programme helps to ensure Healios has enough clinicians to support our continued growth, whilst giving nurses, social workers, speech and language therapists and clinical psychologists the opportunity to train under highly experienced neurodevelopmental practitioners.

As a trainee, you’ll receive a high level of support and supervision to help you successfully complete the programme. you’ll have access to a mentor who will guide you through your early assessments and reports and help to develop your clinical skills. Upon graduation, you’ll be offered a Neurodevelopmental Practitioner role at Healios.

To be successful in this role, below is what we would need from you:

• First level qualification in Nursing, OT, social work, speech and language therapy or Clinical Psychology

• Registered with a statutory body (HCPC, NMC, ACP, BABCP, UKCP, BACP)

• At least 4 years post qualification clinical experience

• Utmost respect for diversity, especially neurodiversity

• Experience in assessing and / or supporting neurodiverse CYP and / or adults

• NHS experience

• A professional home working environment

• Wifi connection. Minimum of 2 mbps up and download speed

• Real passion for supporting people to improve their lives

• A desire to become part of a collaborative environment and share knowledge and learning for the benefit of all

• A curious mind-set that underpins your continuous drive to challenge the status quo for achieving better outcomes

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carer and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS

• Flexibility to support our mission of bringing healthcare to anyone, anytime, anywhere

• A commitment to ethical practice and adherence to the highest standards of safeguarding of adults/children

WHAT WE WILL PROVIDE FOR YOU

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays and closure days)

• Contributory Pension Scheme

• Fully personalised flexible benefits package

• Enhanced family friendly policies

• Flexible, home based role

• Company laptop, plus a personalised home office allowance

• CPD/Growth day per year, plus personal development allowance to invest in your growth

• Bespoke Healios Training, including schedule of monthly CPD for clinicians

• A collaborative culture where curiosity, creativity, experimentation and innovation are fostered

• A highly motivated and energetic team bringing a wide range of talents, experience and knowledge to solve complex challenges

• Autonomy to shape and design world leading clinical pathways that harness the power of combining technology with evidence-based interventions and a human touch

• Opportunities to grow and further develop your professional interests

• A culture that challenges the status quo in pursuit of providing exceptional healthcare and an unrivalled experience for the clients and families we support
  

** Please note, you must be able to start on 17th October 2022, please do not apply if you will be unable to make this date**

**This is an extremely popular role, we will close the advert as soon as we have sufficient applications, please do not delay**

PRE- EMPLOYMENT CHECKS

As part of our pre-employment checks, all employees of Healios will be asked to have a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Dependent on your role within the business, this will either be an Enhanced or Basic. A Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check will be required. You will also be asked to provide two professional references as a minimum.