Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Great North Children’s Hospital in a newly established Nurse Consultant /AHP Autism role. We are seeking a highly motivated, values-driven and experienced senior nurse or allied health professional to provide expert clinical leadership within our Autism and Special Educational Needs pathways.
The postholder will play a key leadership role in enhancing patient experience and outcomes, contributing to service transformation, and strengthening autism provision for children, young people and their families.
- Interview Date Friday 10 July 2026
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
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Main duties of the job
The post will operate across the four key domains of practice: clinical expertise, leadership, education, and service development.
Key responsibilities include:
- Deliver expert clinical assessment, decision-making, and first-line triage within autism pathways
- Provide clinical leadership across multidisciplinary teams, influencing practice and supporting workforce development
- Lead and contribute to service development, quality improvement and innovation in autism services
- Develop and deliver education and training programmes to enhance capability across teams
- Represent the service locally, regionally, and nationally through professional networks and partnerships
- Support Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and contribute to statutory processes where required
- Strengthen integrated working across hospital and community services, including local authority and voluntary sector partners
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
About the Service
- The role sits within Community Children’s Services at the Great North Children’s Hospital and will work closely with Community Paediatrics and wider multidisciplinary teams
- The service is undergoing significant development to meet increasing demand for autism assessments and improve pathways for children aged 0–4 years, alongside wider special educational needs provision
- You will contribute to delivering high-quality, family-centred care while supporting system-wide improvements across health, education and social care
What We Offer
- A unique opportunity to shape and lead the development of autism services
- Supportive, forward-thinking multidisciplinary teams
- Opportunities for professional development and strategic influence
- A role with real impact on patient care, experience, and system transformation
Person specification
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- • Good IT skills
- • Effective report writing skills
- • Effective organisation and time management skills
- • Ability to prioritise a complex workload and work in a rapidly changing environment
- • Acts autonomously and independently within appropriate organisational boundaries and achieve results and outcomes based on own decision making
- • Is able to assimilate risk / benefits and rationalise decision based on extensive knowledge, skills & experience
- • Current driving licence if relevant to role
- • Moving and handling patients and objects in line with Trust guidelines using appropriate aids
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- • Evidence of Supervision and assessment in practice
- • Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
- • Has understanding / experience of adult / child safeguarding
- • Highly developed advanced specialist in field and applies theory to practice
- • Has expert knowledge in practice, research, education, and leadership in specialist area and within the field of your profession
- • Extensive experience of clinical work in specialist area
- • Audit / research experience
- • Extensive clinical and leadership experience in the specialist field
- • Experience of contributing to the development of your profession at a regional / national level
Desirable
- • Experience / evidence of professional leadership in relation to their service at a regional and/or national level
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- • Registered Nurse, Midwife or AHP
- • Current NMC/HCPC registration
- • Possession of a Master’s Degree or established on pathway and able to provide evidence of academic achievement at this level
- • Evidence of specialist education related to area of clinical expertise
Desirable
- • Possession of or working towards a Doctorate
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This advert is for Nurse Consultant/Allied Health Professional (Autism Service) with The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Newcastle Upon Tyne, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Allied health professionals role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 18 Jun 2026.
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