Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

The Humber Adult Autism Diagnostic Service (HAADS) is expanding and is seeking a confident and dynamic Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join the multi-disciplinary team consisting of clinicians from Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Clinical Psychology.

HAADS works with adults living in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire to provide high quality autism assessments and works closely with charitable and carefully chosen private healthcare providers.

If you are a motivated individual, with experience of working with neurodivergent people, including autism and ADHD, or have specialist experience of working within the Mental Health and/or Learning Disability services, please contact us to discuss the details of the post.

Additional training and support is available for developing autism and ADHD diagnostic assessment skills, dependent upon previous clinical experience.

The opportunity for further career development following the Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) course may also be available as the service develops.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for: -

Effectively contributing to multidisciplinary autism assessments; working with other professionals, to provide a holistic assessment for the patient.

Gather and analyse information from various sources throughout the assessment process

Carrying out face to face and digital assessment with patients and carers/family members.

Support patients through the assessment process and the eventual outcome of the assessment

Providing personalised recommendations and intervention following the autism and / or ADHD assessment process

Contribute to the service development, including providing training to other services

Provide post assessment intervention as required and as indicated in the patient's post-assessment support session

Writing specialist detailed reports following the assessment process

Providing clinical supervision to other colleagues within the team

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good, health and social care Trust that delivers care to communities in Hull, East Yorkshire, Scarborough and Ryedale and Whitby. We deliver safe, effective and integrated health services that improve the physical, mental and social health and wellbeing of our patients and service users.

To find out more about our wide range of services including mental health, learning disabilities, children and young people service, Forensic, Community and Primary Care visit our website humber.nhs.uk/Services

You will join our team of over 3600 colleagues that work together across our wide geography and specialties to change lives every day. We're extremely proud of our Trust community and we know you can expect to receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need from your new team to get you started.

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development to ensure the delivery of high quality, person-centred and compassionate care to patients. We value our staff and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills and competencies to deliver outstanding care.

We Trust recognises the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.