Roles in CAMHS
Neurodevelopmental therapist
About the role...
Neurodevelopmental therapist focuses on the entire child and their strengths and weaknesses to provide a developmental profile. They may also be responsible for assessing learning abilities and potential (cognition), social and communication skills, speech and language development, daily living and functional skills, behaviour concerns relating to ADHD and Autism spectrum disorder and skills for motor planning and coordination.
This role works closely with the local children’s CAMHs team and makes recommendations and liaise with professionals supporting the child. Children with complex neurodevelopment presentations including those where a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is being considered.
The work that you are trained to you will use where you can guided or facilitated movements as a treatment strategy to ensure correlation of input into the body.
What qualifications do I need?
Qualifications can vary for this role from having a medical degree, or a Bachelor's degree with 2:1 Honours in a relevant subject such as Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology, Biomedical Sciences, or Mental Health Nursing or you will be a social care professions, including speech and language therapist, social worker or occupational therapist. Evidence of a post registration is helpful but not necessary in this role.
What experience do I need to bring?
You are expected to have excellent communication skills and will provide consultation to families, schools and other professional and agencies when there is ASD and/or ADHD queries. There will also be a requirement to undertake ASD and ADHD assessments and to consider differential diagnoses; including Intellectual disability and trauma. You will have relevant demonstrable experience of working with neurodivergent children, along with experience of working in multi-agency teams and with a wide variety of client groups which reflect the full range of clinical severity.
The neurodevelopmental pathway is strongly committed to personal and professional development; the role is an excellent opportunity to develop specialist knowledge and transferable skills in a supportive team environment. The successful candidates will be encouraged to undertake training in the ADOS-2.