Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Community Paediatrics Medical - RVI
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2026-16-021
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/06/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/07/2026
Employer heading
Nurse Consultant/Allied Health Professional (Autism Service)
Band 8a
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
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
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
Working for our organisation
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
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
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- • 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 criteria
- • Possession of or working towards a Doctorate
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- • 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 criteria
- • Experience / evidence of professional leadership in relation to their service at a regional and/or national level
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- • 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
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Marie Huscroft
- Job title
- Head of Nursing- Children's
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912829015
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