About this role
Job summary
This post is being offered as a secondment opportunity. Interested applicants are encouraged to discuss the opportunity with their current line manager prior to applying.
We are seeking a Clinical Lead for a 9-month secondment role within the Integrated Neurodevelopmental Team in Greenwich. The postholder will provide senior clinical leadership, supervision and line management, supporting safe, high-quality neurodevelopmental assessment and related interventions for children, young people and their families.
The role will support effective case management, demand and capacity oversight, risk management, service improvement, audit and policy development.
The postholder will work closely with the Operational Manager and act as a key clinical link with outsourced assessment provider, helping to address clinical concerns and maintain safe, coordinated pathways.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will undertake and oversee specialist neurodevelopmental assessments, using a range of clinical information, standardised tools, observations, interviews and professional judgement to support formulation, diagnosis and care planning.
They will provide specialist advice, consultation and supervision to clinicians within the service and wider pathway, including guidance on ASD diagnostic assessment, complex presentations, psychologically informed practice and clinical risk.
The role will include responsibility for staff supervision, trainee support, appraisal input and professional development. The postholder will also contribute to recruitment, rota planning, clinical record keeping, digital systems, data reporting and the effective use of resources.
They will support service governance through audit, research, quality improvement, policy development and the monitoring of clinical standards, ensuring practice remains evidence-based, NICE compliant and aligned with Trust policies.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We're Kind We're Fair We Listen We Care
Job description Job responsibilities
The postholder will carry out complex clinical assessments, develop evidence-based formulations and support decisions about diagnosis, treatment, management and discharge for children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties.
They will supervise and support clinical staff, provide training across the children and young peoples pathway, and promote consistent use of agreed assessment tools, clinical processes and documentation standards.
The postholder will contribute to the development and evaluation of service processes, including case management, governance, audit, quality improvement and digital ways of working. They will be expected to manage competing clinical, supervisory and operational demands while maintaining high professional standards and a reflective, evidence-based approach to care.
Please see the Job Description attached for further information.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Substantial and evidenced experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children presenting to LD and neurodevelopmental services across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings. Experience of delivering clinical supervision and managing teams.
Desirable
Experience of working across traditional service boundaries to develop integrated ways of working.
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS Essential
Doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training in ASD (E.g ADOS).
Desirable
Experience of working with digital industry and providers.
OTHER Essential
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS/OTHER Essential
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific groups at a high level of complexity (e.g. dual diagnoses, co-morbidities, parents with additional disabilities etc).
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 Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address Highpoint House
Highpoint House, Shooters Hill,
SE18 4QH
United Kingdom
Employer's website http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)