Neurodevelopmental Clinical Lead

**About us**:
Oakdale was established nearly twenty-five years ago and is highly regarded as a professional therapy provider. We are a not-for-profit community-based organisation and our team is united by a commitment to provide flexible, bespoke, evidence-based, and high-quality clinical services to meet the particular needs of each of our clients as well as the requirements of commissioners for an appropriate, collaborative, value-for-money service.

The Oakdale Group provides a wide range of specialist assessments, including for autism, ADHD, and developmental trauma. Oakdale also provides a wide range of psychological therapies for children, young people, and adults. Many of our services are commissioned by the NHS, Local Authorities, and schools, and include services for NHS staff. Others are accessed by members of the public who pay for them privately, through medical insurance, or through our charitable arm.

**The role**:
The Clinical Lead for the Neurodevelopmental Assessment Pathway is responsible for leading and overseeing the delivery of comprehensive, high-quality clinical services for clients accessing assessments for autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The clinical lead ensures effective clinical governance, leadership of clinicians, and service development,

working closely within a multidisciplinary leadership team to meet client needs and neurodevelopmental service objectives. They will provide strategic leadership for the clinical management, supervision, and delivery of neurodevelopmental assessments, ensuring high-quality patient are and implementing best practice guidelines to ensure that clinical standards are maintained.

The Clinical Lead is jointly responsible with the Neurodevelopmental Service Operational Lead for the delivery of high quality, responsive and accessible neurodevelopmental assessment services. This role will oversee the clinical governance, ethos, values, and service delivery across the pathway The Clinical Lead will work as part of the wider Neurodevelopmental Service Leadership Team to plan services to meet clients’ needs, utilising their clinical expertise in shaping the development of new service models.

The Clinical Lead will also support training, recruitment, clinical audits, and lead complex multi-disciplinary team (MDT) case reviews, ensuring that the pathway operates effectively, safely, and in line with best practices.

**Key Responsibilities**:
1. Clinical Leadership and Service Delivery:
○ Provide strategic clinical leadership to the neurodevelopmental service, ensuring it operates in line with best practices, clinical guidelines, and organisational objectives.

○ Lead and manage the clinical aspects of the neurodevelopmental assessment pathway, ensuring the delivery of high-quality care for individuals being assessed for autism and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and other related conditions.

○ Ensure effective delivery of assessments, diagnostics, treatment, and therapeutic interventions for clients.

○ Take responsibility for overseeing any cases where risk is assessed as high to ensure the right support is in place for clients and recommendations and signposting is appropriate.

○ Oversee the management of clinical caseloads and ensure that patients receive timely and appropriate care.

○ Ensure adherence to relevant guidelines, evidence-based practices, and ethical standards.

○ Work in partnership with the Neurodevelopmental Service Leadership team to provide key clinical input to service development and expansion initiatives, as part of key work streams and where appropriate leading initiatives within this.

○ Where required, to carry out enhanced reviews into clinical diagnostic decisions, investigating and providing feedback that supports learning and development.

○ Build capability and capacity within the neurodevelopmental service clinical team by building confidence and creating a service where practitioners are skilled in their diagnostic decision making through appropriate tools such as supervision and a coaching style of leadership.

**2. Clinical Governance and Quality Assurance**

○ Ensure adherence to clinical governance frameworks, including risk management, safeguarding, and patient safety protocols.

○ Monitor and audit the quality of care delivered across the neurodevelopmental service, implementing improvements where

necessary.

○ Maintain accurate, up-to-date clinical documentation, ensuring compliance with data protection and confidentiality regulations.

○ Lead on the development and implementation of clinical policies, procedures, and pathways specific to neurodevelopmental conditions, working closely with the Neurodevelopmental Service

Operational Lead to ensure effective integration into pathways and processes.

○ Support leadership in planning and conducting clinical audits, identifying areas for improvement in service delivery, and

implementing