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Healios • United Kingdom

Autism Assessment Practitioner

Job Description

Join the UK’s largest Neurodevelopmental team as an Autism Assessment Practitioner where you will provide diagnostic assessments and post-diagnostic support to children, young people and families.

POSITION: Full time & part time (minimum of 3 days), Permanent

HOURS: Flexible - weekday and weekend hours available

LOCATION: Home based

SALARY: £44,500 - £53,750 FTE

OUR COMPANY

Healios is a leading specialist digital healthcare company working to empower children, young people 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.

We work closely with the NHS and due to continued growth and service development, we are looking for passionate clinicians to join our team.

You can find out more about us by clicking here!

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking clinicians who have two years experience of autism diagnostic assessment and interventions. You must be ADOS and/or ADIR trained and experienced and be dedicated to providing high quality care and support.

You must hold a clinical qualification and registration in Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Nursing, Speech and Language Therapy or Psychology (Educational, Counselling, Clinical or Forensic) and be registered with the relevant statutory body (NMC, HCPC, ACP, BABCP, UKCP, SWE, SCW, SSSC or NISCC or BACP).

You will need to work well within an MDT and be able to maintain high standards of clinical record keeping and report writing.

You will be working fully remotely so it’s important you are confident using a range of IT systems.

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY?

We are innovating entire clinical pathways through technology and exceptional clinical talent. Our drive to improve patient experience is unwavering and joining Healios means you can be part of this exciting journey where your unique experiences and skills can contribute to improving the lives of children, young people and families.

Our clinicians are part of a diverse and collaborative team, where support and development are encouraged and prioritised.

Flexibility comes as standard, but don’t just take our word for it, we are recognised as a “Flexified” employer. We know that work-life balance, wellbeing and a sense of purpose are key elements for our employee’s happiness so these areas are also prioritised.

HOW WILL WE LOOK AFTER YOU?

  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays and closure days)
  • Birthday Leave
  • "Life Leave" - 2 days of extra leave to take when things you can't plan for happen
  • Contributory Pension Scheme
  • Fully personalised flexible benefits package including; Health Cash Plan, Life Assurance, EAP Service, Critical Illness Cover, employee discount and savings portal, Cycle to Work Scheme, Tech Scheme and Wine Club!
  • Enhanced family friendly policies
  • Flexible, home based role
  • Company laptop, monitor and keyboard, plus an allowance to purchase additional equipment
  • CPD/Growth day per year, plus personal development allowance to invest in your growth
  • Bespoke Healios Training, including schedule of monthly CPD for clinicians

SO WHY WAIT?

If you meet the above criteria apply today and we will be in touch as soon as possible. Alternatively you can reach out to the team on careers@healios.org.uk for more information.

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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

“Do the right thing” is one of our core Healios values. And building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels supported is absolutely the right thing to do. Whether we’re developing a new service line or enhancing one of our products, we need people with different skills, backgrounds, identities and perspectives to ensure our innovations will work for the children and young people we are here to serve. By embracing diversity, we can deliver better care experiences and outcomes, while tackling the inequalities in healthcare provision that exist today.

SAFER RECRUITMENT & PRE- EMPLOYMENT CHECKS

Healios ensures that supporting people to be safe is at the heart of our work and a key priority across all areas of the organisation, We will do our absolute best to keep the people that we support, safe from harm. This starts with our recruitment processes.

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.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Enhanced maternity leave – 6 weeks full pay + 20 weeks half pay + 13 weeks Statutory pay. We also offer a phased transition, where employees will be able to return to their role on 50% of their contracted hours for 3 months and receive full pay
Enhanced paternity leave – Two weeks full pay and a phased transition where employees return to their role on 50% contracted hours and receive full pay
Fertility treatment leave
Adoption leave – Same as Paternity/Maternity plus employees going through the foster process can request paid leave (5 days FTE) for the application process or to attend meetings and appointments required
Work from anywhere scheme – Work from anywhere for up to 6 months
25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Mental health platform access – EAP scheme to ensure our team have access to free and confidential counselling and advice
Shared parental leave – 6 weeks full pay + 20 weeks half pay + 13 weeks Statutory pay
Life insurance – x2 of salary
Compassionate leave
Buy or sell annual leave – Two weeks per year
Birthday off
Accrued annual leave
Teambuilding days
Cycle to work scheme
Annual pay rises
Employee discounts
Personal development days
Dog friendly co-working space
Open to part time work for some roles
9-day fortnight
Co-working space allowance – Use Desana to book a hot desk or co sharing work space anywhere in the UK and US
Summer hours
Enhanced sick pay
Company shutdown periods – Between Christmas and New Year
L&D budget – £300 per year plus access to CPD and 1 personal development day per year
Work from home budget – Choice of laptop and additional equipment
Enhanced pension match/contribution

Working at Healios

Company employees:

265

Gender diversity (m:f:n-b):

15:80:5

Funding levels:

£14 million

Hiring in countries

United Kingdom

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Awards & Accreditations

Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2024
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Industry awards 2023
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Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2023
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Industry awards 2022