Neurodevelopment Clinical Lead
POSITION: Permanent, Full/Part Time (minimum of 30 hours per week)
LOCATION: Fully remote
SALARY: Up to £65,000 plus extensive benefits
United by our vision. Leading with empathy. Pioneers in curiosity.
Healios exists to bring exceptional healthcare to anyone, anytime, anywhere. By digitising entire clinical pathways, we enable children, adults and their family members to receive and seamlessly transition between clinical services from the comfort of their home.
Innovation is at the heart of what we do as we strive to be the leading provider of neurodevelopmental and associated mental health services. You can find out more about us by clicking here!
Healios is all about helping families feel better and that includes our own families too, which is why we embrace diversity in all its forms and offer unparalleled flexibility for our employees. For more information on what it’s like to be a Healios employee, and our hiring processes, take a look at our Notion page.
“Great minds don’t think alike”
From our talented tech teams to our standout clinical expertise, we’re bringing great minds together to build more accessible services.
As a Clinical Lead, you will play a pivotal role in our Neurodevelopmental team to blend clinical expertise with leadership and governance. Your primary responsibility will be toshape the clinical direction, ensure quality, and foster innovation to achieve exceptional outcomes for individuals seeking a neurodevelopmental assessment.
What you need to have
If you feel you could be a good fit for the role but do not meet all of the criteria, please do make an application and we will be happy to consider your application.
- Excellent experience in Autism and ADHD assessment (ADOS, ADI-r)
- Qualified Occupational Therapist, Mental Health Nurse, Learning Disabilities Nurse or Psychologist.
- An ability to ensure high-quality client care and uphold clinical standards across the organisation. Your responsibilities include offering support and guidance to foster your colleagues' professional growth.
- Management responsibility for Assistant Psychologists. Providing supervision and oversight to ensure safe, effective, evidence-based practice. Working collaboratively with Senior Clinicians to support coordinated clinical delivery.
- Clinical Expertise: Demonstrate deep clinical operational expertise in pathway redesign. Establish, review, and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure high-quality, evidence-based care.
- Consultations: Carry out consultations with very complex cases as and when required.
- Clinical Governance: Provide specialist clinical support from Clinical Leads and establish a dedicated governance structure for holistic oversight, alongside the governance team.
- Capacity to drive clinical governance at a service-wide level. This will encompass conducting audits, supporting compliance, embedding our open learning culture, and continuous quality improvement approaches as well as developing and maintaining Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- A commitment to adhering to local and national policies, including NICE guidelines, and cultivating a culture of ongoing enhancement in clinical practice, reducing unwarranted variation and elevating quality.
- You will demonstrate skills in consultation and collaboration with others across functions to deliver company-wide goals by developing close relationships with colleagues, particularly in Client Operations, Governance and Learning and Development. This will include demonstrating skills in influencing strategic direction for cross-functional initiatives.
- Represent the organisation at meetings with prospective NHS and private sector partners, providing credible clinical insight and articulating the service model, governance framework, and quality standards.
- Ability to work autonomously with clear timelines and accountability
- Direct engagement with clinicians to ensure client-centric practices aligned with policies and guidelines.
- You will oversee and/or be directly involved with complex cases, assess clinical outcomes, and continually improve service quality and client experience.
- Experience of providing supervision and support to assistant psychologists.
- A capacity to contribute to educating the external market about Healios’ services.
- An ability to support other people managers to coach their team members to drive performance.
- Flexibility to support our mission of bringing healthcare to anyone, anytime, anywhere
- A commitment to ethical practice and adherence to the highest standards of safeguarding of adults/children
What’s in it for you
- 33 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
- Paid Christmas closure (between Christmas and New Year)
- Birthday Leave - paid day off on your birthday
- "Life Leave" - 2 days of extra leave to take when things you can't plan for happen
- Enhanced family friendly policies including a phased return to work and receive full pay
- Paid company sick pay scheme
- Contributory Pension Scheme (5% matched)
- Employee Discount to access a private assessment (for ADHD, Autism or a combined assessment) through our Melios service for your child
- Fully personalised flexible benefits package including; Health Cash Plan, Life Assurance, EAP Service, Will Writing, Critical Illness Cover, employee discount and savings portal, Cycle to Work Scheme and Tech Scheme!
- Work from anywhere policy
- Free access to co-working spaces
- Company laptop, monitor and keyboard, plus an allowance to purchase additional equipment
- CPD/Growth day per year, plus personal development allowance to invest in your growth
- Paid Clinical Professional Registration Fee
- Bespoke Healios Training and on demand learning including schedule of monthly CPD for clinicians
ACCOMMODATIONS
We’re glad to accommodate candidates who need adjustments throughout the hiring process and we're always learning about different accessibility needs to ensure our hiring process is accessible for all candidates. We encourage you to be open about the adjustments you need so we can adapt our interview process. You can read more about Healios being an Inclusive Employer on our Notion page
Healios is a Disability Confident Committed Employer and we are committed to inclusivity and equality for people with different needs in the workplace.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
“Do the right thing” is one of our core Healios values. And building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels supported is absolutely the right thing to do. Whether we’re developing a new service line or enhancing one of our products, we need people with different skills, backgrounds, identities and perspectives to ensure our innovations will work for the children and young people we are here to serve. By embracing diversity, we can deliver better care experiences and outcomes, while tackling the inequalities in healthcare provision that exist today.
SAFER RECRUITMENT & PRE- EMPLOYMENT CHECKS
Healios ensures that supporting people to be safe is at the heart of our work and a key priority across all areas of the organisation, We will do our absolute best to keep the people that we support, safe from harm. This starts with our recruitment processes.
As part of our pre-employment checks, all employees of Healios will be asked to have a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Dependent on your role within the business, this will either be an Enhanced or Basic. A Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check will be required. You will also be asked to provide two professional references as a minimum.