Job summary
- Main area
- Neurodiversity Navigator
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available)
- Job ref
- 349-MCH-7452760*
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salford CAMHS, Pendleton Gateway
- Town
- Salford
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Neurodiversity Navigator
Band 4
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to be the first Neurodiversity Navigator in Salford, joining the existing team of navigators across MFT CAMHS. The postholder will support neurodiverse young people and their families. This includes those on the waiting list for assessment, and those who have received a diagnosis of autism/ ADHD. The role will involve answering queries, signposting young people and their families to relevant services, ensuring information about support is up to date on local websites, supporting parent carer events and taking a lead on co-production. The postholder will work within Salford’s Neurodevelopmental Pathway alongside the CAMHS and community Paediatric teams, as well as other community services, and Intensive Support teams for Learning Disabilities and Autism in CAMHS.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be involved in
Signposting families and young people who are neurodivergent to the right support
Helping families understand the Local Offer
Ensuring local websites have up to date information
Taking a lead in co-production for CAMHS related projects
Supporting developments for young people and their families that might be happening at a GM level as appropriate
Liaising with and signposting professionals from other services, e.g. local authority, schools, health professionals to relevant support
Essential and Desirable Criteria:
Essential
Lived experience of autism/ ADHD
Experience of how to communicate effectively with neurodivergent young people and their families
Experience of working in a team and alongside neurotypical and neurodivergent colleagues
Understanding of Trust procedures regarding information governance and safeguarding
Ability to present information clearly in verbal and written formats
Excellent organisational skills
Excellent IT skills
Awareness of and empathy for the challenges that neurodivergent people and their families face
Willingness to make reasonable adjustments e.g. with communication style
Desirable
Experience of working with neurodivergent young people and their families
Experience of managing telephone queries in calm manner
Experience of advocacy/ accessing local services
Understanding of local offer
Knowledge of statutory processes
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Essential and desirable
Essential criteria
- • Lived experience of autism/ ADHD
- • Experience of how to communicate effectively with neurodivergent young people and their families
- • Experience of working in a team and alongside neurotypical and neurodivergent colleagues
- • Understanding of Trust procedures regarding information governance and safeguarding
- • Ability to present information clearly in verbal and written formats
- • Excellent organisational skills
- • Excellent IT skills
- • Awareness of and empathy for the challenges that neurodivergent people and their families face
- • Willingness to make reasonable adjustments e.g. with communication style
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working with neurodivergent young people and their families
- • Experience of managing telephone queries in calm manner
- • Experience of advocacy/ accessing local services
- • Understanding of local offer
- • Knowledge of statutory processes
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Caroline Davies
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for ND Team, Salford CAMHS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01615185400
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