Job summary
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https://www.psicon.co.uk/careers
Clinical Roles -Clinical Lead (Risk and Triage Liaison)- Canterbury
Our Clinical Lead role will be instrumental in leading on clinical risk assessments and supervision within Psicons triage function. You will be supporting the delivery of neurodevelopmental assessments developing and delivering post-diagnostic therapeutic interventions for clients with ADHD and/or autism. You experience will be impactful and vital in ensuring safe, compassionate, and person-centred care for clients accessing Psicons NHS and private pathways.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Risk Assessment and Management
- Act as clinical lead for triage-stage risk assessment across referrals.
- Review and respond to risk concerns raised by the triage team.
- Carry out structured clinical risk assessments and formulate appropriate risk responses.
- Liaise with Clinical Leads, Safeguarding Leads, and GPs where needed.
Triage Team Supervision and Support
- Provide clinical supervision to assistant psychologists and psychology assistants.
- Guide formulation and escalation decisions in triage.
- Support consistent use of Psicon's screening protocols and documentation standards.
Assessment Delivery
- Deliver ADHD assessments (structured clinical interviews and scoring tool integration).
- For adult nurse: deliver ADOS-2 assessments (training will be provided if needed).
- Ensure documentation aligns with Psicon's clinical governance standards and reporting templates.
Post-Diagnostic Therapeutic Interventions
- Design and deliver group-based therapeutic sessions for clients following diagnosis.
- Offer brief individual therapeutic support to clients where appropriate.
- Tailor interventions to neurodivergent presentations (e.g. executive functioning, emotional regulation, self-esteem, identity).
Governance and Quality
- Attend and contribute to Clinical Governance Subgroups, especially those relating to quality and risk.
- Lead and/or contribute to clinical audits relating to triage, risk documentation, or assessment quality.
About us
Psicon is a
specialist neurodevelopmental service working both privately and with various
NHS trusts to provide autism and ADHD assessments. We are an independent
organisation, but most of our work is for the NHS, whom we are proud to
support. Assessments are carried out by our team of associate clinicians from a
range of clinical backgrounds, in satellite clinics across the country and
remotely. Psicon is committed to offering the best psychological support and
healthcare available. We take an innovative approach to the delivery of our
services and ensure that they are of the highest standards in the industry.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working at Psicon
We value our employees as an integral part of our service delivery and believe in recruiting and investing in the best employees. We pride ourselves in providing our employees with the opportunities and resources to achieve their potential. We are keen to provide a vibrant, fun yet challenging working environment for our team who share in our core values of trust, integrity, commitment and kindness and work collaboratively to achieve our company goals of;
- The best possible customer service
- The most efficient and effective clinical work
- A thriving and engaged workforce
- A truly inclusive organisation.
Benefits include:
- Annual leave of 32 days a year (inclusive of bank holidays).
- Flexible annual leave scheme providing the ability to buy or sell back additional days.
- Well-being days.
- Birthday lie in.
- Pension scheme (with the option of enhancing via salary sacrifice).
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Employee Perks via Psiconnect our reward gateway packed with discounts.
- Access to the Blue Light Card membership.
- Pastry Mondays.
- Funded social events.
- Staff well-being bursary scheme.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working at Psicon
We value our employees as an integral part of our service delivery and believe in recruiting and investing in the best employees. We pride ourselves in providing our employees with the opportunities and resources to achieve their potential. We are keen to provide a vibrant, fun yet challenging working environment for our team who share in our core values of trust, integrity, commitment and kindness and work collaboratively to achieve our company goals of;
- The best possible customer service
- The most efficient and effective clinical work
- A thriving and engaged workforce
- A truly inclusive organisation.
Benefits include:
- Annual leave of 32 days a year (inclusive of bank holidays).
- Flexible annual leave scheme providing the ability to buy or sell back additional days.
- Well-being days.
- Birthday lie in.
- Pension scheme (with the option of enhancing via salary sacrifice).
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Employee Perks via Psiconnect our reward gateway packed with discounts.
- Access to the Blue Light Card membership.
- Pastry Mondays.
- Funded social events.
- Staff well-being bursary scheme.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- RMN / RNLD/ HCPC / BASW or equivalent mental health professional) from an accredited institution.
- Specialization and significant experience in the assessment and treatment of ASD and ADHD (CYP/ adults/ both).
- Able to evidence your experience of managing risk and safeguarding issues within either a CAMHS or Psychiatric service.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively, including within a multidisciplinary team.
- Maintaining compliance as per company regulations i.e., evidence of current registration with your professional body.
- Keep up to date all records in relation to CPD and your personal development plan.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- RMN / RNLD/ HCPC / BASW or equivalent mental health professional) from an accredited institution.
- Specialization and significant experience in the assessment and treatment of ASD and ADHD (CYP/ adults/ both).
- Able to evidence your experience of managing risk and safeguarding issues within either a CAMHS or Psychiatric service.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively, including within a multidisciplinary team.
- Maintaining compliance as per company regulations i.e., evidence of current registration with your professional body.
- Keep up to date all records in relation to CPD and your personal development plan.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
