Clinical Lead (Neurodiversity Support Team)

Clinical Lead (Neurodiversity Support Team)

Join our new Neurodiversity Support Team and play a key role in helping schools across BNSSG better understand and support neurodivergent children and young people.

The Neurodiversity Support Team is a multidisciplinary clinical service working in partnership with education settings to deliver high-quality Neurodivergent Needs Analyses. The team provides expert guidance, consultation and quality assurance to ensure needs profiles are consistent, meaningful and impactful.

As part of a system-wide programme, the service is introducing Neurodivergent Needs Analysis across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG). The team works closely with schools across the region, providing training, consultation and practical support to help them better understand and respond to the needs of neurodivergent children and young people.

The service champions early intervention and a needs-led approach, focusing on each child or young person's strengths and challenges rather than diagnostic labels.

We are looking for a Clinical Lead to join this developing team and help shape a new way of supporting neurodivergent children and young people across the region. This role is 33.75 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

As the Clinical Lead, you will oversee the delivery of a high-quality, neurodiversity-affirming service for children and young people across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. You will lead the roll out of Neurodivergent Needs Analyses, ensuring a consistent, needs led approach across education settings.

You will provide clinical oversight and guidance to the Neurodiversity Support Team, supporting schools to explore children and young people's strengths, needs and strategies. The role includes responsibility for clinical governance, risk management, and ensuring safe, high quality service delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead clinical oversight of Neurodivergent Needs Analysis pathways.
• Support consistent, safe and high quality service delivery.
• Guide the team on clinical governance and risk management.
• Support education settings to implement needs led approaches.
• Collaborate with schools and professionals to promote strengths based, inclusive practice.

About us

We are Sirona Care & Health - England's largest provider of adult's and children's community services, based in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days non working leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme.

Equality and diversity statement

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong.

Qualifications and Training

• Educated to degree level in a relevant subject.
• Recognised post graduate Management / Leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
• Post requires a health professional - speech and language therapist, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, clinical psychologist or a registered nurse - must have a licence to practise, evidenced by e.g. HCPC or NMC registration.
• Professional training relating to neurodivergent needs and neurodevelopmental conditions.

Skills, Experience and Knowledge

• Experience working with children and young people with neurodiversity conditions.
• Extensive operational management experience including managing and developing multidisciplinary teams in a variety of locations.
• Good understanding of the transformation agenda and the legislative, regulatory and performance management framework for education, health and social care.
• Compassionate leadership skills, credibility and integrity and ability to manage through change.
• Experience of managerial and leadership practices and procedures.
• Experience of resolving complex issues within services and staff groups, taking into consideration relevant business implications and local impact.
• Experience of co production with staff and service users to improve service delivery.
• Experience of using a variety of strategies and approaches to develop staff.
• Contribution to developments in the professional field at national level.
• Experience of leading service transformation projects.
• Contribution to service or organisational developments at a system wide level.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and therefore a Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required.

Location: Hawkfield Business Park, Whitchurch Lane