Neurodiversity Family Support Practitioner

Neurodiversity Family Support Practitioner

The closing date is 23 February 2026

In this role you will have the opportunity to work closely with colleagues, children and their families to help us to better understand the challenges they face when children have additional needs.

You will be delivering a range of information, advice and guidance for children, families and practitioners. You will be central to improving the way in which we support children, families and practitioners to navigate the many challenges and successes of being neurodivergent.

Using your skills and knowledge, you will ensure that practitioners across the workforce are able to map a child's individual needs and plan effectively to meet these in a timely way. You will ensure information, advice and guidance is provided to children, families and practitioners in the most effective way to ensure that improved outcomes are achieved, including reducing demand on high-cost specialist services.

Main duties of the job

Your daily tasks will be varied and include:

• Delivering training and resources to support a more inclusive and adaptive school environment that celebrates neurodiversity through use of a tool that enables identification of individual needs.
• Working in partnership with schools to provide additional support and guidance
• Carrying a caseload of families and work with key agencies (such as PCN Navigators) to ensure families are able to access the support that meets their needs

This is a busy role so you will be working together within your team to balance different tasks that often change. You will need a full driving licence to be able to travel to the different sites across the community and schools.

About us

Rated outstanding by the CQC, we have a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent.

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn't visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission.

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won't involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit us both.

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Job responsibilities

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

Job responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via , quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Good luck! We cant wait to meet you and welcome you to , .

Person Specification Qualifications

• Additional Qualifications and Training

Experience

• Experience of working with ND young people
• experience of using IT systems / case notes

Experience

• Experience of mentoring others

Skills and Abilities

• A good knowledge and understanding of local and national frameworks relevant to social models of disability/SEND and its application across relevant systems in education and healthcare.

Skills and Abilities

• Sound communication skills

Skills and Abilities

• Customer focused approach, for working with young people. Representing the trust. Working in a multi agency way. E1

Skills and Abilities

• Sounds knowledge of safeguarding and when to elevate

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.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a year pro rata per annum