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Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join the Oxleas Adult Autism Service as we seek to appoint a Multidisciplinary Autism Specialist Lead for the Autism Partnership Programme side of the service. 

The Oxleas Adult Autism Service works with autistic adults without a learning disability (or with a mild learning disability that does not meet threshold for learning disability services). The service provides clinical specialist support to the Community Mental Health Teams, Acute Care/psychiatric wards and other local teams working with Autistic people with comorbid psychiatric disorders in order to adjust the inpatient and community support and care according to their specific needs to avoid admission and/or expedite discharge from acute care. 

The team brings together a variety of disciplines including Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Clinical Psychology.

This position is key to provide multi-disciplinary coordination, clinical management of caseload and clinical leadership within the MDT and the overall Autism Partnership Programme within the Trust.

Applications are welcomed from Psychology, OT, SaLT and Nursing clinical backgrounds with a robust pluriannual specialist clinical experience with service users and MDTs alike working with autistic adults with comorbid mental health difficulties at risk of admission.  

Main duties of the job

The APP MDT Lead will manage the caseload at a clinical and operational level, coordinate the MDT support for clients referred to the service and will be involved in all the aspects of highly specialist clinical care and specialist clinical advice to the service user, members of MDT and all the internal and external stakeholders involved in the service user’s care. This will include liaising with a broad range of NHS teams internal and external to Oxleas and commissioning managers within the SEL ICS and other stakeholders involved in the care of the client as needed. The APP MDT Lead will be also a key figure in the further development of the service, by contributing in the design and managing members of the MDT in the delivery of agreed specialist plans and projects for the expansion of the service.  The MDT lead will manage and coordinate resources for delivery of trust-wide specialist training and specialist resources and material for distribution within the Trust and the community across the three boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

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