Job summary
Join Us as Clinical Lead Leeds GP Confederation Neurodevelopment Services
Interviews will be taking place in Leeds on Wednesday 27th August 2025
Location: Leeds | Hours: Up to Full-Time | Salary: Competitive and dependent on experience | Contract: Permanent
The Clinical Lead will act as a central point for all ADHD clinical activity
within our service, working closely with the operational and senior leadership
team to ensure delivery of a safe, highly effective and high-quality pathway
for patients seeking ADHD assessment and treatment.
The post holder will be an experienced clinician and leader with
extensive experience in ADHD; possessing the ability to provide supervision and
oversight to the wider ADHD clinical team.
The role will be a mix of clinical leadership and patient based
activity. As such, the post holder will work 0.2WTE in a leadership capacity, with
up to 0.8WTE of the post being spent undertaking ADHD assessments and/or
treatment.
Main duties of the job
As Clinical Lead, you will:
Lead and inspire a multi-disciplinary team of Specialist ADHD Practitioners
Lead weekly MDT meetings and ensure robust clinical governance
Provide expert supervision, support, and training to clinicians
Collaborate with partners across health, care, education and voluntary sectors
Identify service gaps and champion improvements that reduce health inequalities
Influence service design through data-driven decision making
Play a key role in delivering innovative, community-focused ADHD care.
About us
The Leeds GP Confederation has two purposes:
To be a voice for and represent General Practice in the Leeds Health and Care System:
A collective voice for General Practice that will be heard throughout the health and care system
Through representation and active participation in the health & care system to contribute to the setting of strategy and decision making
To hold contracts to enhance access to healthcare across Leeds and to provide a range of services to General Practices:
By providing services and holding contracts that directly support General practice
By having an infrastructure that enables, where appropriate, at scale working for the benefit of general practice and populations
Inclusive transparent governance
Not-for-profit
Job description
Job responsibilities
- TITLE:ADHD - Clinical Lead
- DEPARTMENT Neurodevelopmental
Services
- LOCATION: Leeds
- HOURS OF
WORK: Up to full time (37.5 hours/week) made up on 0.2 WTE
Leadership time and up to 0.8 WTE clinical time
- Salary Competitive and dependent on
experience
- NATURE OF CONTRACT: Permanent
- ACCOUNTABLE
TO:
Associate Director of Clinical Professions
ROLE SUMMARY
- The Clinical Lead will act as a central point for all ADHD clinical activity
within our service, working closely with the operational and senior leadership
team to ensure delivery of a safe, highly effective and high-quality pathway
for patients seeking ADHD assessment and treatment.
- The post holder will be an experienced clinician and leader with
extensive experience in ADHD; possessing the ability to provide supervision and
oversight to the wider ADHD clinical team.
- The role will be a mix of clinical leadership and patient based
activity. As such, the post holder will work 0.2WTE in a leadership capacity, with
up to 0.8WTE of the post being spent undertaking ADHD assessments and/or
treatment.
MAIN DUTIES
- The Clinical
Lead will provide clinical oversight and leadership to the wider ADHD by:
-
Supporting the development of the
Leeds GP Confederation ADHD service
-
Providing clinical leadership and
oversight to a multi-disciplinary team of Specialist ADHD Practitioners
-
Leading weekly internal
multi-disciplinary team meetings
-
Work with a variety of agencies and
stakeholders and other community-based professionals working with people with
ADHD/suspected ADHD
-
Providing staff training
-
Offering consultation, support and
provision of ADHD assessment and treatment advice
-
Ensuring that the wider ADHD team are working
within local and national guidelines
-
Ensuring robust clinical governance
arrangements are in place, and leading on clinical audit of the service
-
Risks are identified, assessed for urgency
and appropriately escalated to the appropriate person or service when required.
-
Working with the operational team, ensuring
key performance indicators are monitored, and maintained
-
Identify gaps in provision for people with ADHD symptoms within the
current Health and Care Partnership to inform future service requirements.
-
Develop multi-agency working across
communities and voluntary and statutory organisations to improve health and
address health inequality for people with ADHD symptoms.
-
Gather and collate statistical and other information and data as
required, to report on activity and outcomes and ensure effective qualitative
and quantitative monitoring and evaluation of the service.
-
Reflect on practice, and participate in team meetings, practice
development forums and peer supervision within the service.
-
Ensure that patient records and other information systems are completed
accurately and within agreed timescales.
-
Ensure adherence to organisational policies
and procedures relating to risk and personal safety.
-
Work with team members
and colleagues to continually improve the quality of services within the
overall organisational governance frameworks and service objectives.
-
Clinically, the post
holder will undertake ADHD assessments independently and/or provide ADHD
treatment including the prescribing of medication.
-
Any other duties commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility
of this post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- TITLE:ADHD - Clinical Lead
- DEPARTMENT Neurodevelopmental
Services
- LOCATION: Leeds
- HOURS OF
WORK: Up to full time (37.5 hours/week) made up on 0.2 WTE
Leadership time and up to 0.8 WTE clinical time
- Salary Competitive and dependent on
experience
- NATURE OF CONTRACT: Permanent
- ACCOUNTABLE
TO:
Associate Director of Clinical Professions
ROLE SUMMARY
- The Clinical Lead will act as a central point for all ADHD clinical activity
within our service, working closely with the operational and senior leadership
team to ensure delivery of a safe, highly effective and high-quality pathway
for patients seeking ADHD assessment and treatment.
- The post holder will be an experienced clinician and leader with
extensive experience in ADHD; possessing the ability to provide supervision and
oversight to the wider ADHD clinical team.
- The role will be a mix of clinical leadership and patient based
activity. As such, the post holder will work 0.2WTE in a leadership capacity, with
up to 0.8WTE of the post being spent undertaking ADHD assessments and/or
treatment.
MAIN DUTIES
- The Clinical
Lead will provide clinical oversight and leadership to the wider ADHD by:
-
Supporting the development of the
Leeds GP Confederation ADHD service
-
Providing clinical leadership and
oversight to a multi-disciplinary team of Specialist ADHD Practitioners
-
Leading weekly internal
multi-disciplinary team meetings
-
Work with a variety of agencies and
stakeholders and other community-based professionals working with people with
ADHD/suspected ADHD
-
Providing staff training
-
Offering consultation, support and
provision of ADHD assessment and treatment advice
-
Ensuring that the wider ADHD team are working
within local and national guidelines
-
Ensuring robust clinical governance
arrangements are in place, and leading on clinical audit of the service
-
Risks are identified, assessed for urgency
and appropriately escalated to the appropriate person or service when required.
-
Working with the operational team, ensuring
key performance indicators are monitored, and maintained
-
Identify gaps in provision for people with ADHD symptoms within the
current Health and Care Partnership to inform future service requirements.
-
Develop multi-agency working across
communities and voluntary and statutory organisations to improve health and
address health inequality for people with ADHD symptoms.
-
Gather and collate statistical and other information and data as
required, to report on activity and outcomes and ensure effective qualitative
and quantitative monitoring and evaluation of the service.
-
Reflect on practice, and participate in team meetings, practice
development forums and peer supervision within the service.
-
Ensure that patient records and other information systems are completed
accurately and within agreed timescales.
-
Ensure adherence to organisational policies
and procedures relating to risk and personal safety.
-
Work with team members
and colleagues to continually improve the quality of services within the
overall organisational governance frameworks and service objectives.
-
Clinically, the post
holder will undertake ADHD assessments independently and/or provide ADHD
treatment including the prescribing of medication.
-
Any other duties commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility
of this post.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skils
Essential
- To succeed in the role, the successful candidate must have;
- Significant experience (at least 3 years) of working within ADHD services and/or mental health services
- Be autonomous in the assessment and management of ADHD
- Be registered with a professional body i.e. GMC, NMC, HCPC, GPC
- Significant experience in working with and liaising with senior leaders and managers in large complex healthcare environments, including commissioning organisations.
- Significant experience of working with multiple health and care organisations, delivering integrated, seamless pathways
- Project management and oversight
- Preparing and delivering both written and verbal reports for relevant stakeholders
- Experience in healthcare innovation and change
- Demonstrable written and verbal communication skills across multiple stakeholders
- Demonstrable experience of finding solutions to support delivery against contractual requirements
- A passion for helping to reduce health inequalities and supporting disadvantaged groups
- Working to tight contractual deadlines and controls
- Experience in leading others and people management, including direct line management.
- Proficient in analysing data to inform decision making.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skils
Essential
- To succeed in the role, the successful candidate must have;
- Significant experience (at least 3 years) of working within ADHD services and/or mental health services
- Be autonomous in the assessment and management of ADHD
- Be registered with a professional body i.e. GMC, NMC, HCPC, GPC
- Significant experience in working with and liaising with senior leaders and managers in large complex healthcare environments, including commissioning organisations.
- Significant experience of working with multiple health and care organisations, delivering integrated, seamless pathways
- Project management and oversight
- Preparing and delivering both written and verbal reports for relevant stakeholders
- Experience in healthcare innovation and change
- Demonstrable written and verbal communication skills across multiple stakeholders
- Demonstrable experience of finding solutions to support delivery against contractual requirements
- A passion for helping to reduce health inequalities and supporting disadvantaged groups
- Working to tight contractual deadlines and controls
- Experience in leading others and people management, including direct line management.
- Proficient in analysing data to inform decision making.
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).
