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.
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.
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
- 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.
