Job summary
Due to additional funding, we are expanding! You are invited to join a team which is being developed in order to enhance an existing Autism Diagnosis and Liaison Service offer.
We are looking for highly motivated and skilled autism assessor to join our expanding Autism Diagnostic & Liaison team. This new role will help support our existing team with adult autism assessment and post diagnostic needs for autistic adults across Lincolnshire.
The MDT is clinically led by a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist/Clinical Lead who supports operational, strategic and clinical delivery of the pathway, along with our Service manager and team co-ordinator. We work as an MDT to provide high quality, NICE compliant autism assessments.
Lincolnshire offers affordable housing, good schools and easy access to the countryside. It is within reach of the major cities of the East Midlands and links into the East Coast Mainline
For further information, please contact Rosie Clifton (Team Coordinator) on 01476 858257 or r.clifton@nhs.net or Cat Benson (Service Manager) on Catherine.benson3@nsh.net
Main duties of the job
We receive referrals from a number of sources, for diagnostic assessments, signposting and post diagnostic liaison with our partner agencies and other LPFT divisions. We are developing extended post diagnostic services, which will likely include 'navigation' services and post diagnostic support, training, groups and short term interventions for adults recently diagnosed with Autism. We also support Autistic people navigate health, employment and education services, and will be able to create and maintain positive working relationships with clients, their families and other organisations providing support.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for candidates who have experience of working with Autistic adults who may have complex unmet needs. The post holder will be experienced in leading the assessment of Autism in adults using structured tools and will take a clinical leadership role within the MDT.
The successful applicant will also support the clinical lead to complete audit and service evaluation as necessary. As part of this role, they will receive regular clinical supervision. The successful applicant will also be able to provide clinical supervisor to other members of the MDT. The successful applicant will cover an agreed area within the county of Lincolnshire, which will include both rural and town-based communities. The successful applicant will have to be able to travel to venues within Lincolnshire within journey times and in a manner acceptable to the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for candidates who have experience of working with Autistic adults who may have complex unmet needs. The post holder will be experienced in leading the assessment of Autism in adults using structured tools and will take a clinical leadership role within the MDT.
The successful applicant will also support the clinical lead to complete audit and service evaluation as necessary. As part of this role, they will receive regular clinical supervision. The successful applicant will also be able to provide clinical supervisor to other members of the MDT. The successful applicant will cover an agreed area within the county of Lincolnshire, which will include both rural and town-based communities. The successful applicant will have to be able to travel to venues within Lincolnshire within journey times and in a manner acceptable to the Trust.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oQualified Health/Social Care Professional with current registration (NMC/HCPC/SCE)
- oEvidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice (or able to evidence equivalent experience)
- oAccredited DISCO / ADIR / ADOS or equivalent diagnostic assessor.
Desirable
- .Specialist qualifications relating to Autism Spectrum Discorder and/or Mental Healthcare and Learning Disabilities at post graduate level e.g. NMP, MSc.
- .Leadership Training.
Experience
Essential
- oPost-Registration experience of working with adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism and Mental Health needs with complex physical health needs.
- oExperience of managing and/or supervising registered professional staff across a range of issues.
- oEvidence of continuing professional development and a proven record of a higher level of clinical practice in complex cases within this specialist field
Desirable
- oExperience in involvement in strategic decision making.
- oExperience of leading on clinical supervision.
- oExperience in leading on projects.
Skills
Essential
- oAble to communicate complex and at times highly sensitive information to a variety of stake holders.
- oExcellent IT skills: email, word processing, excel, systems use.
- oHighly developed clinical reasoning skills.
Desirable
- oBudget Management.
- oStatistics and Audit.
- oAble to develop protocols.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oQualified Health/Social Care Professional with current registration (NMC/HCPC/SCE)
- oEvidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice (or able to evidence equivalent experience)
- oAccredited DISCO / ADIR / ADOS or equivalent diagnostic assessor.
Desirable
- .Specialist qualifications relating to Autism Spectrum Discorder and/or Mental Healthcare and Learning Disabilities at post graduate level e.g. NMP, MSc.
- .Leadership Training.
Experience
Essential
- oPost-Registration experience of working with adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism and Mental Health needs with complex physical health needs.
- oExperience of managing and/or supervising registered professional staff across a range of issues.
- oEvidence of continuing professional development and a proven record of a higher level of clinical practice in complex cases within this specialist field
Desirable
- oExperience in involvement in strategic decision making.
- oExperience of leading on clinical supervision.
- oExperience in leading on projects.
Skills
Essential
- oAble to communicate complex and at times highly sensitive information to a variety of stake holders.
- oExcellent IT skills: email, word processing, excel, systems use.
- oHighly developed clinical reasoning skills.
Desirable
- oBudget Management.
- oStatistics and Audit.
- oAble to develop protocols.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
