Locality Wellbeing and Clinical Lead

**Full Job Description**:
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**Job title: Locality Wellbeing and Clinical Lead**

**Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 per annum, plus £2,000 Car Allowance**

**Location: Regional/Home Based covering travel to East and West Sussex & Kent**

**Contact: Permanent**

**Hours: 40 hours per week**

We’re looking for an experienced clinician with demonstrable leadership skills to join our expanding team as our Clinical Lead. Holding clinical responsibility which consists of Heath Farm, Mountfield Heath, Medway Green and Manor House and other residential homes. You will contribute to bespoke assessment and intervention plans for our children and young people with developmental trauma, autism, complex and SEMH needs. This is a wide and varied role ideal for those looking for a new challenge where you can truly have an impact on shaping a service and driving change.

**About the role**

The post holder will hold clinical responsibility, managing and developing a multi-disciplinary team comprising of; but not limited to, Educational Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational and Sensory Integration Therapy, Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology, as well as Therapy Assistants and other appropriate professions as the allocated services require. Collaborating to ensure we meet the needs of our children, young people and adult’s.

Working independently within the overall framework of the service policies and procedures you will support the integration of their specific service in the day-to-day running of each provision. A key aspect of the role will be quality assuring the school and residential homes on their delivery of informed interventions at a universal, targeted and specialist level to support our wider teams in meeting our children, young peoples and adult’s needs in line with set Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).

Our Clinical Wellbeing Teams maintain nurturing and loving environments where our children can flourish. Always putting our children and young people at the forefront of everything they do. All our settings maintain a strong safeguarding culture, and our children and young people are heard, respected and involved in decisions that affect them wherever possible.

When it comes to looking after our children, we strive for excellence, which is why we are the leading children services provider in the UK. With this in mind, we are looking for a Clinical and Wellbeing Lead who shares our vision; to build incredible futures by empowering vulnerable young people in the UK to be happy and to make their way in the world.

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**About the Group**

Outcomes First Group is the largest independent provider of special needs education and care. We are a vital part of local communities in England, Scotland and Wales with a renowned reputation for quality and positive outcomes for the people we educate and care for.

We are really proud to say that in October 2021, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the third year running.

Our divisional brands include Acorn Education and Care and Options Autism.

**Essential Criteria**:

- Psychology/psychotherapy, speech and language or occupational therapy qualification required; and Registered with a recognised governing body e.g., HCPC, BACP,UKCP, BPS or equivalent
- Experienced in working with young people with ASD and complex needs
- Extensive post graduate experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the setting
- Substantial and relevant post-qualification experience with children and young people
- Experience of lecturing/teaching/training
- Good knowledge of relevant psychometric tools
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Full valid UK driving licence and access to a car is desirable
- Skills in the management of data are also important as the role includes collecting and analysing data to inform various pieces of service delivery, development and project work.

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- Life Assurance Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

**And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant pos