Principle Clinical Psychologist/Clinical Lead for INDT
Posted 2 hours 42 minutes ago by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Main area Children & Young People Grade Band 8b Contract Secondment: 9 months Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 721-CYP-A
Site Highpoint House Town Highpoint House, Shooters Hill, Salary £72,719 - £83,505 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 06/10/:59 Interview date 19/10/2026
Job overviewThis post is being offered as a secondment opportunity. Interested applicants are encouraged to discuss the opportunity with their current line manager prior to applying.
We are seeking a Clinical Lead for a 9-month secondment role within the Integrated Neurodevelopmental Team in Greenwich. The postholder will provide senior clinical leadership, supervision and line management, supporting safe, high-quality neurodevelopmental assessment and related interventions for children, young people and their families.
The role will support effective case management, demand and capacity oversight, risk management, service improvement, audit and policy development.
The postholder will work closely with the Operational Manager and act as a key clinical link with outsourced assessment provider, helping to address clinical concerns and maintain safe, coordinated pathways.
Main duties of the jobThe postholder will undertake and oversee specialist neurodevelopmental assessments, using a range of clinical information, standardised tools, observations, interviews and professional judgement to support formulation, diagnosis and care planning.
They will provide specialist advice, consultation and supervision to clinicians within the service and wider pathway, including guidance on ASD diagnostic assessment, complex presentations, psychologically informed practice and clinical risk.
The role will include responsibility for staff supervision, trainee support, appraisal input and professional development. The postholder will also contribute to recruitment, rota planning, clinical record keeping, digital systems, data reporting and the effective use of resources.
They will support service governance through audit, research, quality improvement, policy development and the monitoring of clinical standards, ensuring practice remains evidence-based, NICE compliant and aligned with Trust policies.
Working for our organisationOxleas 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 Listen
- We Care
The postholder will carry out complex clinical assessments, develop evidence-based formulations and support decisions about diagnosis, treatment, management and discharge for children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties.
They will supervise and support clinical staff, provide training across the children and young people's pathway, and promote consistent use of agreed assessment tools, clinical processes and documentation standards.
The postholder will contribute to the development and evaluation of service processes, including case management, governance, audit, quality improvement and digital ways of working. They will be expected to manage competing clinical, supervisory and operational demands while maintaining high professional standards and a reflective, evidence-based approach to care.
Please see the Job Description attached for further information.
Person specification Experience- Substantial and evidenced experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children presenting to LD and neurodevelopmental services across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Experience of delivering clinical supervision and managing teams.
- Experience of working across traditional service boundaries to develop integrated ways of working.
- Doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology
- Completion of further post-doctoral post-qualification specialist training in ASD (E.g ADOS).
- Experience of working with digital industry and providers.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific groups at a high level of complexity (e.g. dual diagnoses, co-morbidities, parents with additional disabilities etc).
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