As a Senior Systemic Neurodiversity Practitioner, you will play a key role in providing tailored and holistic support for neurodivergent children, young people, and their families.
Your role will combine leadership, trauma-informed care, and systemic advocacy to deliver high-quality, family-centered interventions that prioritize resilience, equity, and well-being.
In addition to leading your team, you’ll engage directly with those you support, fostering trust and understanding while making a meaningful difference in their lives.
Our service operates Monday to Saturday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and this is a full-time position with the flexibility to work evenings and weekends when needed to best meet the needs of families.
Travel within the region may occasionally be required to fulfill the responsibilities of this role, and we’ll ensure you feel supported in balancing this aspect of the position.
This role is fixed-term until March 2026, giving you the opportunity to be part of a dedicated team focused on impactful, long-term change.
Package DescriptionAt HCRG Care Group, we value and celebrate your contributions as a Senior Systemic Neurodiversity Practitioner.
We are committed to creating an environment where you feel supported and appreciated. Here’s how we care for you with our exclusive rewards and benefits:
A competitive salary of £38,000, along with a Group Pension to support your financial wellbeing.
Membership to My Reward Hub, offering discounts on everyday purchases like groceries, as well as cashback and vouchers for treats for you and your loved ones.
Access to your earnings as you earn them, helping you manage unexpected expenses without relying on overdrafts or high-interest loans.
Comprehensive resources to support your mental and physical wellbeing, including online and in-person support for everything from healthy living tips and activity challenges to post-trauma support, legal advice, debt management, life coaching, and counseling.
Opportunities to grow and thrive through eLearning, tailored career pathways, and ongoing professional development guided by our award-winning Learning Enterprise team.
A welcoming, open culture where your ideas are heard and acted on to help transform health and care. We back this commitment with at least £100,000 in annual funding for innovation.
The pride of working in an organisation dedicated to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of our services rated “good” or “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.
Main ResponsibilitiesLeadership and Team Support
Provide supportive line management to a team of six practitioners, offering regular supervision, collaborative performance feedback, and personalized development reviews to help them thrive in their roles.
Cultivate a positive, trauma-informed, and inclusive team culture that encourages reflective practice, open communication, and resilience.
Offer guidance and encouragement to practitioners as they manage complex caseloads, helping them incorporate trauma-informed principles into their work.
Championing Trauma-Informed Practice
Advocate for trauma-informed care across systems and services, promoting its importance in creating equitable and compassionate support.
Lead the development and delivery of engaging training sessions, workshops, and resources to embed trauma-informed approaches within the team and partner organizations.
Service Delivery and Quality Assurance
Maintain a small and focused caseload to stay connected to frontline service delivery, ensuring your insights directly inform leadership and support.
Guide the team in adhering to organizational policies, safeguarding standards, and professional guidelines while ensuring a trauma-informed perspective remains at the core of all practices.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description.
The Ideal CandidateEssential
Qualifications
A relevant undergraduate degree (e.g., Psychology, Social Work) or an equivalent professional qualification in a related field.
Experience
Proven experience providing assessments, therapeutic interventions, and case management for neurodivergent children and young people (CYP).
Demonstrated leadership or supervisory experience, including managing teams and providing performance evaluations.
Experience working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams.
Skills
Strong interpersonal and communication skills to build meaningful connections and foster understanding.
Ability to manage complex caseloads while offering effective support to team members.
Proficiency in safeguarding practices, risk assessment, and intervention planning.
Knowledge
A solid understanding of trauma-informed care and systemic approaches to supporting neurodivergent individuals.
Awareness of child development, neurodivergence, and the broader psychosocial factors that influence well-being.
Desirable
Qualifications
A postgraduate qualification in CYP IAPT – ASC/LD pathway.
Advanced training in trauma-informed practice or systemic care approaches.
Experience
Familiarity with working within CAMHS ND pathways.
Experience using routine outcome measures (ROMs) and service evaluation tools.
Other Requirements
A valid driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes.
For a detailed overview of all requirements and responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
