# Specialist Health Visitor Children's Neurodevelopmental Team > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Powys Teaching Health Board. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-health-visitor-childrens-neurodevelopmental-team/d4b440ae-dd41-4141-b9e9-82f405e839e5 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-health-visitor-childrens-neurodevelopmental-team/d4b440ae-dd41-4141-b9e9-82f405e839e5.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Powys Teaching Health Board - **Town:** Bronllys - **Region:** West Wales - **Country:** Wales - **Profession:** Health visitor - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £50,129 - £57,365 Pro Rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-21T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-07T11:21:55.321Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Powys/Brecon/Powys_Teaching_Health_Board/Nursing/Nursing-v8128419 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8128419?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://pthb.nhs.wales ## Job Content ### Job overview The Specialist Health Visitor for the Children’s Neurodevelopmental and Learning Disability Team is a senior practitioner who provides specialist leadership, assessment, support and intervention for children aged 0–6 years with emerging or identified neurodevelopmental needs, including autism, ADHD and associated developmental differences. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the post holder delivers a family-centred, neuro-affirming and needs-led service that promotes early identification across the wider Health Visiting Team, timely support and improved outcomes for children and their families. The successful candidate will be an experienced Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: Health Visitor, have developed significant additional expertise in the early presentation of neurodevelopmental need, and in the effective support for families.  They will be an excellent communicator and have a solution focused approach. ### Main duties of the job The role acts as a key point of contact for families throughout their journey, providing expert advice, emotional support, care coordination and advocacy. The post holder works collaboratively with health, education, social care and third-sector partners to develop a holistic understanding of each child’s strengths, needs and aspirations, ensuring that support is coordinated, proportionate and responsive. The Specialist Health Visitor provides clinical leadership for the early years neurodevelopmental pathway, contributing to assessment, formulation, intervention planning and service development. Responsibilities include delivering specialist assessments, supporting multidisciplinary decision-making, providing consultation and training to professionals, and promoting evidence-based and neuro-affirming practice across the wider system. The role also supports early years services and the Health Visiting workforce to recognise emerging neurodevelopmental needs and facilitate appropriate referral and intervention. The post holder contributes to quality improvement, governance, safeguarding, audit and service evaluation activities, ensuring care is delivered in line with professional standards, national guidance and organisational objectives. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the details in the attached Job Description of the Specialist Neurodevelopment Health Visitor for main responsibilities of the role. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Working with neurodivergent children - Working with children in early years - Working with other professionals/early years staff - Relate clinical theory to clinical practice - Knowledge and experience of a range of assessments appropriate for assessing social communication difficulties in pre-school and school children - Knowledge of relevant policies and documents, e.g. Early Years Framework, ALN Act **Desirable** - Experience of assessing children for autism diagnostic purposes - Trained with knowledge & demonstrable experience of leading ADOS and ADIr assessments - Experience of working in children centres and nurseries, schools - Experience of working with paediatricians - Experience, understanding and application of research - Experience of supporting the neurodivergent community either professionally or voluntarily ### Qualifications **Essential** - SCPHN Degree - MSc or equivalent knowledge and experience - Current NMC Registration **Desirable** - Recognised post graduate qualification in a relevant area such as Autism - Learning Disabilities nursing Qualification/Training - Teaching Qualification and/or experience - Post Registration Management Qualification and/or experience ### Skills and Attributes **Essential** - Good communication and interpersonal skills - Construct clear care plans differentiating appropriate therapy from a range of options, based on analysis of information from assessment - Experience in delivering training - Organise, plan and prioritise own workload - Generate appropriate strategies for caseload management - Show sensitivity to the emotional needs of clients and their carers, when imparting potentially distressing information - Work as part of a team - Empathy with clients, carers and families often where barriers to understanding exist ensuring that effective communication is achieved - Work independently and within a Multidisciplinary team - Strong influencing and negotiating skills - Anticipate problems, implications and make effective decisions - Conflict Management and mediation skill - Good knowledge and proficiency of Microsoft packages to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook **Desirable** - Some ability to speak, read and/or write Welsh, or an eagerness to learn - Experience in analysing data - Ability to speak another language ## Documents - [oh form (pdf, 656.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10435214) - [privacy notice (pdf, 808.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2375) - [flexible working (pdf, 571.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10427760) - [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 278.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2850) - [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 624.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1727) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 297.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10435213) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.