Job summary
- Main area
- Mental
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-8001740
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Jeanette Wallace House
- Town
- Croydon,
- Salary
- £63,665 - £70,887 per annum inclusive of HCAs pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
The post holder will lead and manage the Croydon Adult Secondary Care Neurodevelopmental Team, delivering specialist assessment, intervention and consultation for adults with neurodevelopmental conditions, ensuring integrated, effective and outcome-focused service delivery using a stepped-care approach The service sits within Croydon Community Mental Health Services and provides specialist neurodevelopmental assessment, intervention and consultation. The post holder will lead the team’s day-to-day clinical and operational functioning and provide clinical, professional and managerial supervision to the Adult Neurodevelopmental Practitioner (Band 7), supporting students/trainees as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
As Clinical Lead, you will provide clinical and operational leadership for the Croydon Adult Secondary Care Neurodevelopmental Team, delivering specialist assessment, formulation, intervention and consultation for adults with neurodevelopmental conditions. You will lead a stepped-care approach, support integrated working across Croydon Community Mental Health Services and the wider neurodevelopmental pathway, and drive quality improvement so that care is safe, effective and outcome focused.
What we're looking for.
Registered clinician - Occupational Therapist, Mental Health Nurse, Speech and Language Therapist, or Psychological Therapist with relevant professional registration.
Significant post-registration experience of working autonomously with adults with neurodevelopmental conditions and complex mental health needs, including risk assessment and management.
Advanced knowledge and experience of specialist assessment and intervention for Autism/ADHD/Learning Disabilities, including managing co-morbid presentations.
Proven experience of clinical leadership, supervision and supporting workforce development.
Experience of multidisciplinary and partnership working across health, social care and VCSE providers.
Evidence of service development, quality improvement, audit and/or research, translating learning into improved practice.
Commitment to culturally competent, inclusive practice and improving access and outcomes for diverse communities.
Working for our organisation
By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field. SLaM delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014; providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels. In addition, our working relationship with King's Health
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To manage the Croydon Adult Neurodevelopmental Team, working in integration with the core Community Mental Health Services in Croydon, and close collaboration with the wider neurodevelopmental specialist services.
· Lead the day-to-day operational and clinical functioning of the Croydon Adult Neurodevelopmental Team in close integration with Community Mental Health Services.
· Establish and maintain robust systems for clinical, professional and managerial supervision.
· To offer specialist clinical input to wider services where appropriate.
· To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best achieved.
· To provide specialist interventions according to discipline including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
· To offer expert consultation to community mental health team members in Neurodevelopmental disorders including Autism, ADHD and Learning Disabilities.
· To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
· Provide clinical, professional and managerial supervision, including appraisal, recruitment and workforce development responsibilities. To promote service evaluation, QI, audit and research and policy embedment
· To scope clinical gaps for people with Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
· To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor
· Deliver specialist training and consultation to mainstream services to strengthen neurodevelopmental capability across the system.
Person specification
Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles. (A/I/R)
- • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate. (A/I/R)
- • Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic meetings (A/I/R)
- • Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and psychological interventions, and to deal with unexpected interruptions or changes during these. (A/I)
- • Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour. (A/I)
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Occupational Therapist, Mental Health Nurse, Speech and Language Therapy or Psychological Therapist professional Background. (A)
- • Registered with professional body as appropriate to discipline (A)
- • Degree Level Qualification or above. (A)
Desirable criteria
- • Relevant training in completing ASD and ADHD Assessments (A)
- • Training in ADOS-2 administration
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Substantial post-registration experience of working autonomously with adults with neurodevelopmental conditions and complex needs in a community mental health, including making clinical judgements and managing risk. (A/I)
- • Experience of providing specialist assessment and intervention where presentations are complex and co-morbid, drawing on advanced specialist knowledge of neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., Autism, ADHD, Learning Disabilities). (A/I)
- • Experience of coordinating pathways, influencing MDT working, and contributing to service development/quality improvement. (A/I)
- • Experience of providing supervision (clinical and/or professional), including supporting peer development through training, coaching and capability building. (A/I)
- • Experience of delivering specialist training/consultation to non-specialist teams to upskill understanding and interventions for neurodevelopmental conditions. (A/I)
Skills
Essential criteria
- • To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information. (A/I/R)
- • To plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers (and for meetings such as CPA and case reviews where appropriate).
- • To plan allocation of tasks to assistants/trainees as appropriates. (A/I/R)
- • Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data. (A/I/R)
- • Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups. (A/I/R)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for approaches to neurodevelopmental conditions. (A/I/R)
- • Working knowledge of the Learning Disability and or Autism Programme including Transforming Care. (A/I/R)
- • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities. (A/I/R)
- • Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care. (A/I/R)
- • Knowledge of local services and the wider asset map of resources
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Andrew Tapfumaneyi
- Job title
- General Manager for Transformation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0771064654
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