About this role
Job summary
Make a difference through outstanding clinical leadership
The Retreat is looking for an experienced and passionate Joint Autism Lead to join our clinical leadership team.
This is an exciting opportunity for an established clinician to combine clinical practice, leadership and service development, helping us deliver high-quality, safe and effective services that put the needs and experiences of our clients at the heart of everything we do.
As Joint Autism Lead, you will work closely with the Clinical Services Manager, Service Managers and fellow clinicians to provide strong clinical leadership, promote best practice and ensure our services remain clinically excellent, compliant and responsive to the needs of the people we support.
You will provide clinical leadership and professional support across the adult neurodevelopmental service, acting as a trusted source of advice on clinical practice, risk and complex clinical issues. Experiences in Child Services is also welcome.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities will include:
Providing clinical leadership and support to staff and clients within adult neurodevelopmental service.
Leading the referral and triage process, ensuring safe and consistent inclusion and exclusion criteria and effective allocation of referrals.
Providing autism assessments and psychological therapy to individuals and groups presenting with a wide range of psychological needs.
Developing, writing and implementing clinical pathways and Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring high-quality practice becomes embedded.
Advising managers and colleagues on clinical and professional matters, including clinical risk.
Supporting clinical service evaluation, outcome measurement, research and continuous service improvement.
Using audits, complaints, peer reviews, inspections and new evidence to identify and implement improvements in practice.
Contributing to the development of strong clinical teams through clinical leadership, team development, forums and learning opportunities.
Working collaboratively with other clinical leaders to share best practice and ensure consistency across services.
Ensuring client rights, wishes and experiences remain central to care and support.
Supporting accurate clinical records, effective reporting and compliance with relevant professional, statutory and regulatory requirements.
Providing a strong clinical voice across service information, literature and marketing materials.
Offeringsupervision for trainee psychologists.
About us
What you can expect
At The Retreat, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to clinical quality while continuing to develop your own professional practice.
The role includes access to appropriate clinical supervision, support for continuing professional development, and participation in annual appraisal.
You will be part of a wider clinical leadership team focused on high-quality care, continuous improvement, learning and positive outcomes for clients.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description which includes full details of roles and responsibilities and performance measures.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
At least three years' post-qualification experience as a clinical or counselling psychologist. Experience conducting autism assessments, and may have specialist training in one or more standardised assessment tools (including autism diagnostic interview (ADI-R) or autism diagnostic observation schedule (ADOS-2)). Experience developing effective therapeutic working alliances with complex clients. Experience of clinical leadership within a relevant service area. Experience supporting clients and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours. Experience monitoring and evaluating clinical services and using data, audits, research, complaints and inspection findings to improve practice. Experience evaluating clinical practice and outcomes using appropriate tools. Experience of working within Records Management Information systems such as EMIS, SystmOne, Tacklit etc.
Desirable
Experience of developing training for other professionals, providing consultancy to other organisations, undertaking research activity.
Qualifications Essential
A relevant degree and postgraduate qualification, including specialist training in one or more therapeutic models relevant to adult neurodevelopmental service. Registration with an appropriate professional body.
Desirable
- Experience of developing training for other professionals, providing consultancy to other organisations, undertaking research activity would also be valuable. - A doctorate-level qualification or extensive post-qualification training and accreditation is desirable.
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.
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 Retreat Clinics York
Address The Retreat
The Tuke Centre
28 Green Dykes Ln
York
YO10 3HH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://theretreatclinics.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)