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Practitioner Psychologist - Autism, Neurodevelopmental Pathways

  • Manage your own caseload, delivering autism diagnostic assessments for children and young people.
  • Conduct specialist neurodevelopmental assessments in line with recognised clinical pathways and best practice guidance.
  • Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to contribute to diagnostic decision making.
  • Utilise recognised autism assessment tools, including ADOS-2 and ADI-R.
  • Produce high-quality diagnostic reports for families, referrers, and partner professionals.
  • Provide expert clinical advice and support to children, young people, families, and carers throughout the assessment process.
  • Deliver clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists and other professionals where appropriate.
  • Contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, audits, and pathway enhancement projects.
  • Participate in training, research activities, and continuing professional development.
  • Maintain excellent standards of safeguarding, clinical governance, and record keeping.
Requirements
  • HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
  • Post-qualification training in autism assessment tools such as ADOS-2 and ADI-R.
  • Significant experience working with children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions.
  • Experience undertaking autism assessments within a multidisciplinary setting.
  • Strong understanding of autism assessment pathways and relevant clinical guidance.
  • Experience of safeguarding and risk assessment within children's services.
  • Excellent clinical assessment, formulation, communication, and report-writing skills.
  • Experience providing supervision to trainee or assistant psychologists and/or other healthcare professionals.
Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in conducting autism diagnostic assessments and utilizing recognized assessment tools such as ADOS-2 and ADI-R. Capable of providing clinical supervision and contributing to service development while maintaining high standards of safeguarding and clinical governance.

Highest-signal resume keywords
  • HCPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
  • Autism Assessment Tools (ADOS-2, ADI-R)
  • Clinical Assessment and Report Writing
  • Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration
  • Supervision of Assistant Psychologists
ATS Optimization Keywords Hard Skills
  • Autism Diagnostic Assessments
  • Neurodevelopmental Assessments
  • Clinical Report Writing
  • Safeguarding and Risk Assessment
  • Clinical Governance
Soft Skills
  • Communication Skills
  • Collaboration
  • Expert Clinical Advice
Certifications & Qualifications
  • HCPC Registration
Industry Keywords
  • Clinical Pathways
  • Quality Improvement Initiatives
  • Training and Development
  • Children's Services
  • Neurodevelopmental Conditions