Job overview

**Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.**

The Oxleas Adult Autism Service will be launching a Community Autism Service within the areas of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich. The new service is designed to provide multidisciplinary, person-centred support and advocacy services to autistic adults who are not eligible for a learning disability service or community mental health services or other relevant care setting. This is a very exciting opportunity to be part of a growing service aimed at reshaping how Autism is understood and supported within the local community.

We are seeking 2 specialist support workers to work alongside an MDT composed of Occupational therapy, Speech & Language Therapy and Psychology.

The post would could also suit someone interested in a career in Speech and Language Therapy and/or Occupational Therapy or Psychology.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a member of our multi-disciplinary team and will be responsible of supporting Autistic adults in the community. The main responsibility for this role will be to support the implementation of specialist programmes and strategies designed by the MDT for our service users. 

As a second part of the role the post holder will also be key to support the person in navigating and sign posting them to the appropriate community third sector service and provide information on how to access them. The post holder will guide the person through the community offer, make relevant contact if needed and support in attending key appointments.  

 A key responsibility of this role will be to maintain ongoing collaboration with third-party service providers. This includes establishing and nurturing relationships, developing effective channels of communication, and regularly updating liaison pathways between the community autism service and other organizations operating within the community.

When both roles are filled, one person will mainly handle the clinical duties associated with the specialist support worker, while the other will primarily focus on non-clinical tasks linked to the Autism liaison specialist. However, both post holders should be prepared to work flexibly across the service and cover the full scope of responsibilities when necessary.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas 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’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care