Oakdale Centre CiC

You will undertake neurodevelopmental assessments (autism and ADHD) for children and young people as part of a multidisciplinary team. The role will require you to be able to offer the face to face elements of assessment (e.g. the ADOS) at our premises in the Norfolk area. Other elements of the assessment can be delivered remotely.

You will undertake neurodevelopmental assessments (autism and ADHD) for children and young people as part of a multidisciplinary team. The role will require you to be able to offer the face to face elements of assessment (e.g. the ADOS) at our premises in the Norfolk area. Other elements of the assessment can be delivered remotely.

You will undertake neurodevelopmental assessments (autism and ADHD) for children and young people as part of a multidisciplinary team. The role will require you to be able to offer the face to face elements of assessment (e.g. the ADOS) at our premises in the Norfolk area. Other elements of the assessment can be delivered remotely.

The role

The role will be to undertake face to face neurodevelopmental assessments (autism and ADHD) for children and/or adults as part of a multidisciplinary team. The role is offered on a hybrid basis, with a mix of home working and working from one of our centres in Harrogate, Horsforth, or Halifax. Oakdale is an agile organisation able to offer full or part time employed or flexible hours.

The assessments may include some or all of the following depending upon professional background/ experience. Training will be provided where required in line with service needs alongside supervision:

Parental/developmental interviews to explore the client's developmental history relating to autism, ADHD and learning. This may include the service structured interviews, the ADI-R, ACE, ACE+ or DIVA/Young DIVA assessments.

Assessments are undertaken by clinicians based at one of our centres, with the play based assessment and developmental history being completed at the same time for early years assessments. MDT meetings take place within these clinics.

1:1 play-based/ activity sessions with the young person/ adult as part of neurodevelopmental assessments

ADOS-2 Assessments

QBCheck

Cognitive assessments, e.g. WISC-V and WAIS-IV (Psychology applicants only)

School observations

Liaison with schools and other professionals

Additional psychometrics

Multidisciplinary team meetings

Report writing: full Neurodevelopmental Assessment reports.