Clinical Lead

The All Age ASD Team are looking to recruit a part-time 30 hours per week, Band 7 Clinical Lead. The successful candidate will:

• Support the Team Manager in delivering a high-quality ASD assessment and intervention service for the young people of the city of Stoke on Trent, and Newcastle and the Moorlands area.
• Provide clinical leadership within the team and management support, deputising for the Team Manager in their absence.
• Work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary framework, providing training and staff development, specialist assessment, clinical support and time limited interventions to service users.
• Act as a source of expertise and point of contact within the team and demonstrate highly specialised communication skills and problem solving abilities when prioritising risk.
Main duties of the job 1. Act as a positive role model for the discipline through the demonstration of strong leadership skills 2. Provide support and advice in the clinical area to optimise quality improvement opportunities. This may involve working alongside individual practitioners in the clinical area, in particular where practitioners are experiencing difficulties or are unable to achieve the required outcomes 3. Analyse and respond to complex clinical situations utilising specialist knowledge to assess a range of options to formulate solutions and recommendations 4. Act as a change agent, using skills that will motivate and reassure staff through negotiation and training to facilitate the change process 5. In conjunction with other clinical leads, facilitate collaborative working between disciplines 6. Work closely with organisations to ensure that staff are supported through organisational change. 7. To manage quality standards within the teams, this can include leading on appropriate CQUIN's and other quality initiatives.

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care. We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working. We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.