You will lead the clinical aspects of the MDT involvement and provide broad clinical leadership to Adopt South staff and multi-agency colleagues. Leading change and clinical direction, training, supervising and consulting with a range of agencies, staff and stakeholders will be part of the role, working very closely alongside the relevant Service Managers.
You will bring strategic and professional leadership, knowledge and skills, ensuring our services are aligned with national clinical governance frameworks. You will deliver high-quality specialist clinical consultation, support and interventions, at the appropriate level to our families.
The postholder will be the clinical lead, specifically developing and supporting the MDT on the expansion and delivery of all psychological and clinical input such as trauma and attachment-focused interventions, with a particular emphasis on Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), Neuropsychological and Neurodiverse models as well as family focused support for adopted and care-experienced children, adults and their families. Your whole ethos will be inherent through your dedicated practice of the principles of DDP and PACE, while still seeking to build on the wider evidence base of clinical progress in this field.
As needed, you will liaise and provide clinical guidance to internal and external teams and agencies on safeguarding, risk, and forensic matters and be a link with health and mental health agencies such as, NHS Trusts, CAMHs, GPs, School/Virtual Schools and specialist teams such as Residential homes and Youth Offending teams.
The role includes responsibility for service innovation, clinical governance, training and research leadership in line with local, national and broader priorities and with a commitment to ensuring adherence to international, national and local, clinical and professional guidance as far as possible.
