Job summary
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
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
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
About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
About the Service
- The role sits within Community Childrens Services at the Great North Childrens 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 04 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
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse, Midwife or AHP
- oCurrent NMC/HCPC registration
- oPossession of a Master's Degree or established on pathway and able to provide evidence of academic achievement at this level
- oEvidence of specialist education related to area of clinical expertise
Desirable
- oPossession of or working towards a Doctorate
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- oEvidence of Supervision and assessment in practice
- oKnowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
- oHas understanding / experience of adult / child safeguarding
- oHighly developed advanced specialist in field and applies theory to practice
- oHas expert knowledge in practice, research, education, and leadership in specialist area and within the field of your profession
- oExtensive experience of clinical work in specialist area
- oAudit / research experience
- oExtensive clinical and leadership experience in the specialist field
- oExperience of contributing to the development of your profession at a regional / national level
Desirable
- oExperience / evidence of professional leadership in relation to their service at a regional and/or national level
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- oGood IT skills
- oEffective report writing skills
- oEffective organisation and time management skills
- oAbility to prioritise a complex workload and work in a rapidly changing environment
- oActs autonomously and independently within appropriate organisational boundaries and achieve results and outcomes based on own decision making
- oIs able to assimilate risk / benefits and rationalise decision based on extensive knowledge, skills & experience
- oCurrent driving licence if relevant to role
- o Moving and handling patients and objects in line with Trust guidelines using appropriate aids
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Trustwide
317 Trustwide
NE1 4LP
United Kingdom
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