Band 8a Quality Team Lead Learning Disability & Autism

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, passionate clinical practitioner to join the Learning Disability and Autism (LDA) Services within LPT & be a part of the award winning LDA Collaborative that is improving the lives of local people.

As the Quality Team Lead you will provide visible, accessible and authoritative clinical and operational leadership to designated services within LDA specifically the Specialist Autism Team, Adult Autism Assessment Service and to the Dynamic Support Pathway hub. You will be responsible for the maintenance and clinical oversight of waiting lists for the services in your portfolio and for ensuring care quality performance and high-quality clinical activity.

You will be accountable for the delivery of effective operational and clinical processes, leading on service developments to ensure safe, efficient and high-quality service delivery is maintained across your portfolio of services.,

• Providing strong visible, accessible, operational management and clinical leadership,


• Leading multidisciplinary teams


• Managing the delivery of services


• Working collaboratively with multiagency colleagues


• Ensuring robust local accountability for performance, quality, safety and finance,


• Working alongside clinical teams to provide assurance about the quality and delivery of clinical practice,


• Providing expert knowledge and highly specialised advice,


• Establishing sound and effective relationships with service stakeholders and other service providers.


• Contributing the reduction in the number of people from LLR cared for in a hospital setting
  
  You will hold a professional qualification, have specialist LDA knowledge and experience, and have significant leadership and management experience.
  
  Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.


Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.