# Clinical Lead for the ADHD referrals management centre > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-lead-for-the-adhd-referrals-management-centre/612744e9-d1ee-4551-ba70-39e03d872587 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-lead-for-the-adhd-referrals-management-centre/612744e9-d1ee-4551-ba70-39e03d872587.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Dartford - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £53,751 - £60,651 pa inc - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2025-08-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2025-07-25T15:10:59.292Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Sidcup/Oxleas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_Community_Mental_Health_Services/Adult_Community_Mental_Health_Services-v7373245 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7373245?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxleas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Clinical Lead will act as a central point for all adult ADHD referrals from SEL GPs across the six boroughs to NHS and independent providers, ensuring equitable access. They will: - Confirm patients meet referral criteria per the local ADHD service specification. - Support GPs referring to private providers. - Reduce inequities by advising on access via the Right to Choose pathway. - Provide clinical triage, signposting, and prioritisation based on need. - Help the ICB assess true demand to inform future pathway development. Clinical Nurse Specialist – RMC The Clinical Nurse Specialist supports service delivery within the Referral Management Centre (RMC), ensuring no duplication and maintaining service quality. The role involves: - Independent screening and triage of clients. - Leading clinical practice and development. - Providing leadership to a multidisciplinary team. - Ensuring safe, effective clinical care. Experience in mental health, ADHD assessment, formulation, and risk management is highly desirable. ### Main duties of the job Clinical Lead Responsibilities The post holder will coordinate and lead team operations with a focus on: - Supporting clinicians in identifying training and development needs. - Leading service improvements using frameworks such as Quality Improvement. - Overseeing referral, triage, and onward pathways for South London ADHD referrals. - Conducting screening and triage, ensuring appropriate onward referrals. - Engaging patients and teams to support access to suitable services, including secondary mental health or community support. - Promoting best practice and driving service improvement. - Ensuring assessments and treatments align with NICE guidance. - Maintaining clear communication with stakeholders. - Identifying performance issues and working with the team manager to resolve them. - Providing line management and supervision to relevant staff. - Leading on complex case management and supporting staff. - Ensuring team operations align with the agreed policy. - Coordinating recruitment and selection processes. - Responding to serious incidents, safeguarding alerts, and complaints in line with Trust policies. - Embedding learning from incidents and complaints within the team. - Managing team communications and promoting equality and diversity. - Supporting the Trust’s reputation and values, including recovery-oriented care. - Ensuring job plans reflect service needs and are regularly reviewed. - Performing other duties as required. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The Trust’s success will be dependent on all managers playing an active role to make sure the existing areas of good employment practice are universally embedded within the organisation. Managers will be expected to: Ensure that systems are in place to co-ordinate information about the take up of the services and to establish unmet needs and action plans to address those. Conduct and contribute to the PDR process for all staff within the team which reflect Trust and local priorities and ensure staff has access to appropriate training and development. Co-ordinate and develop the practice and culture of the MDT team through close liaising with clinical leads around recruitment and service delivery. Communicate regularly through team meetings, team briefings, clinical forums and individually with team members providing an opportunity for two-way feedback. Ensure that service response to patient experience feedback is provided in a timely manner. Undertake other duties delegated by the operational Manager in keeping with the scope and authority of the job description. Ensure through effective leadership and management, continuous service development, improvement, and high-quality service delivery. To ensure care is locally delivered, at the right time and is service user/ carer focussed. To work closely and in partnership with colleagues within primary care and their community partner organisations in a collaborative way, ensuring that decisions are made that ensure the best care for service users and that there is a seamless pathway. To provide informal mental health specific learning for staff across the Mental Health Hub, including providing specialist advice relating to mental health. ## Job Details The Clinical Lead will act as a central point for all adult ADHD referrals from SEL GPs across the six boroughs to NHS and independent providers, ensuring equitable access. They will: Clinical Nurse Specialist – RMC The Clinical Nurse Specialist supports service delivery within the Referral Management Centre (RMC), ensuring no duplication and maintaining service quality. The role involves: Experience in mental health, ADHD assessment, formulation, and risk management is highly desirable. ## Job Description Clinical Lead Responsibilities The post holder will coordinate and lead team operations with a focus on: ## Responsibilities The Trust’s success will be dependent on all managers playing an active role to make sure the existing areas of good employment practice are universally embedded within the organisation. Managers will be expected to: Ensure that systems are in place to co-ordinate information about the take up of the services and to establish unmet needs and action plans to address those. Conduct and contribute to the PDR process for all staff within the team which reflect Trust and local priorities and ensure staff has access to appropriate training and development. Co-ordinate and develop the practice and culture of the MDT team through close liaising with clinical leads around recruitment and service delivery. Communicate regularly through team meetings, team briefings, clinical forums and individually with team members providing an opportunity for two-way feedback. Ensure that service response to patient experience feedback is provided in a timely manner. Undertake other duties delegated by the operational Manager in keeping with the scope and authority of the job description. Ensure through effective leadership and management, continuous service development, improvement, and high-quality service delivery. To ensure care is locally delivered, at the right time and is service user/ carer focussed. To work closely and in partnership with colleagues within primary care and their community partner organisations in a collaborative way, ensuring that decisions are made that ensure the best care for service users and that there is a seamless pathway. To provide informal mental health specific learning for staff across the Mental Health Hub, including providing specialist advice relating to mental health. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice in variable settings. - Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff. - Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance - Highly extensive experience and significant post registration experience in working with people with mental health needs. **Desirable** - Evidence of Interdisciplinary / multi-agency working experience including primary care and community/ voluntary sector. - Experience of effective collaborative working in partnership to deliver holistic health and social care outcomes. - Experience of leadership and development of junior colleagues. ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - Current professional registration: Registered Mental Health Nurse educated to degree, Masters level or have other relevant experience. - Understanding of the mental health and ADHD needs of adults - Able to demonstrate advanced understanding of health inequalities amongst marginalised groups. **Desirable** - ADHD and/or Neuro-diverse assessment experience. - Evidence of continuing professional and personal development. - Working knowledge of the policies and guidelines pertinent to the planning and delivery of care to adults with mental health and neuro-diverse needs. ### Skills/Abilities/Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of the key drivers behind community mental health care. - Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders. - Ability to present service information and service development clearly. **Desirable** - An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives. - Able to hold professionals and peers to account. - An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks. ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1847) - [job description (pdf, 272.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9614626) - [privacy notice for staff (pdf, 268.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1659) - [important additional information for candidates (please read carefully) (pdf, 160.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1656) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.