Job overview

The Clinical Lead will act as a central point for all adult ADHD referrals from SEL GPs across the six boroughs to NHS and independent providers, ensuring equitable access. They will:

• Confirm patients meet referral criteria per the local ADHD service specification.
• Support GPs referring to private providers.
• Reduce inequities by advising on access via the Right to Choose pathway.
• Provide clinical triage, signposting, and prioritisation based on need.
• Help the ICB assess true demand to inform future pathway development.

Clinical Nurse Specialist – RMC

The Clinical Nurse Specialist supports service delivery within the Referral Management Centre (RMC), ensuring no duplication and maintaining service quality. The role involves:

• Independent screening and triage of clients.
• Leading clinical practice and development.
• Providing leadership to a multidisciplinary team.
• Ensuring safe, effective clinical care.

Experience in mental health, ADHD assessment, formulation, and risk management is highly desirable.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Lead Responsibilities

The post holder will coordinate and lead team operations with a focus on:

• Supporting clinicians in identifying training and development needs.
• Leading service improvements using frameworks such as Quality Improvement.
• Overseeing referral, triage, and onward pathways for South London ADHD referrals.
• Conducting screening and triage, ensuring appropriate onward referrals.
• Engaging patients and teams to support access to suitable services, including secondary mental health or community support.
• Promoting best practice and driving service improvement.
• Ensuring assessments and treatments align with NICE guidance.
• Maintaining clear communication with stakeholders.
• Identifying performance issues and working with the team manager to resolve them.
• Providing line management and supervision to relevant staff.
• Leading on complex case management and supporting staff.
• Ensuring team operations align with the agreed policy.
• Coordinating recruitment and selection processes.
• Responding to serious incidents, safeguarding alerts, and complaints in line with Trust policies.
• Embedding learning from incidents and complaints within the team.
• Managing team communications and promoting equality and diversity.
• Supporting the Trust’s reputation and values, including recovery-oriented care.
• Ensuring job plans reflect service needs and are regularly reviewed.
• Performing other duties as required.

Working for our organisation

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