Job overview

The Oxleas Adult Autism Service is seeking a Principal Psychologist to lead its newly established Community Autism Service, which supports Autistic adults without a learning disability or severe mental health conditions. The role encompasses clinical leadership, caseload management, multidisciplinary coordination, the provision of specialist guidance, and collaboration with families, carers, and local stakeholders across Bexley, Bromley, and Greenwich. Core responsibilities include further developing referral and intervention pathways, supervising daily clinical operations, delivering specialist training and resources, and supporting the ongoing expansion of the service.

This permanent position is based at Queen Mary's Hospital and is offered on a part-time basis (30 hours per week). This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the set up of a new and much needed service and to enhance support for autistic adults within the community.  

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

Main duties of the job

 Key responsibilities include:

• To manage the caseload of clients referred to the service the three boroughs of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich and lead on the coordination and delivery on the agreed clinical specialist programme of care.
• To provide clinical leadership within the CAS with management and coordination and prioritization of clinical resources and staff across different disciplines (including Occupational Therapy, Psychology and Speech and Language Therapy) based on the specific clinical needs and clinical goals of each client.
• To be responsible for providing clinical and operational guidance at a systemic multi-disciplinary level to the different clinicians within the MDT and liaise closely with their discipline specific clinical supervisors.
• To provide support, supervision, and governance to the MDT Team and specialist clinical consultancy to wider organisation and third party community organizations, to ensure high quality clinical care across inpatient and community settings and support the clinical development of the service.

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