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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
About
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Contact
- Address
- Trust Headquarters
- Warneford Hospital
- Warneford Lane
- Headington
- Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 7JX
- Contact Number
- 01865 901000
Neurodevelopmental Assessment Team Practitioner
Accepting applications until: 11-Aug-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 11-Aug-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Sue Nichols Centre
- Address
- Bierton Road , Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire,
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Postcode
- HP20 1EG
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Salary
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- CAMHS
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Are you looking for a step up in your clinical work? Or wanting a change of pace?
We are looking for a Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker who's wanting to work in a dynamic and fast-paced CAMHS service. This position offers the opportunity to work with a supportive, friendly and kind specialist team offering Autism and ADHD assessments to children age 5 - 17yrs 9 months in Buckinghamshire.
The team has worked hard on a new model of assessment to ensure we offer assessments using a neuro affirmative approach. we have developed a model in consultation with parents/ cares and young people that places the family at the centre of our processes. we have ensured our processes and language used is strengths led whilst considering the environment in which we work alongside being transparent with families what they can expect from our service.
Applicants will be joining the team at an exciting time as we embed this model alongside regular reflection and review.
We would be keen to hear from applicants who embrace out vision of a neuro affirmative offer that are able to see differences as strengths and bring enthusiasm and energy to the team.
Advert
To support and be supported by the team to carry out neurodevelopmental assessments alongside a multi agency team consisting of occupational therapists, psychologists, paediatricians, nurses and social worker. We pride ourselves on being a supportive team who will offer you a comprehensive induction plan to build skills and confidence to enable quality assessments for our children and young people.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Neurodevelopmental assessments
- contributing to team and service development
- to take part in MDT meeting to consider diagnosis alongside an understanding of other presenting issue
- to work in the wider structure of CAHMS to identify any further support and carry out any other relevant referrals
- to keep accurate up to date records on RIO
- to complete diagnostic reports and letters to a high standard, written to the child using language which is strengths based and can be understood by the child
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values. Job Description is subject to evaluation.
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with relevant parties
- Knowledge of neurodiversity
- Evidence of assessing skills
- Ability to work in a holistically informed way, contributing to shared formulations
- To be able to work closely with all team members and follow advice/instruction as necessary
- To be able to function as part of multi-disciplinary team
- Have ability to follow policy.
- Maintain patient records both written and electronic
Desirable criteria
- To have a reasonable level of competence in formatting documents using MS Word
- Prior knowledge and experince of assessing neurodiversity in children
- Lived experience of ADHD and/ or Autism
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Paediatric Nursing qualification or Mental Health Nursing Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Masters level education
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and competence in working with children in a neuro affirming way
- Experience of working with families, carers and staff teams, in various settings
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a healthcare service
- Experience of undertaking neurodevelopmental assessments
personal strengths
Essential criteria
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- An interest in working with young people with ADHD and/or Autism
- Highly motivated
- Non-judgmental, empathic, and sensitive
- Self-reflective
- Resourceful with good time management
- Good observational and reporting skills
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
other
Essential criteria
- To be able to travel independently and work flexibly across the county to support the service, from a designated base.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natasha Maber
- Job title
- Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07557166134
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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