Lead Clinician

Job Title:  Lead Clinician

Location:  Strawberry Lane School – Durham DH6 5BE

Salary:  £50,000 - £60,000 per annum, DOE

Hours:    37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday 8.30am-4.30pm

Contract:      Permanent – 52 weeks

Essential: Full valid UK driving licence and access to own vehicle

In a world where the demand for clinical support is increasing daily, we understand the importance and value of the work you carry out.  Your unique skills and expertise are critical to building better outcomes for our pupils. This is why we aim to have a multidisciplinary clinical team for each of our sites to provide this vital provision in collaboration with our education teams. Creating an environment where our pupils can truly flourish and grow in independence is key.

Our Vision

Empower every child, whatever their ability, with a world-class education that nurtures potential, inspires lifelong learning, and equips them to thrive in a diverse and evolving world.

Our Mission

We commit to unlocking our pupils’ potential through personalised learning, innovation, and opportunity, supporting growth and aspirations.

Our Promise

WE LISTEN. We never assume.

WE WORK TOGETHER. To make the remarkable happen.

WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE. To each other and for one another.

Our Promise describes the sort of people we are and our commitment to how we treat each other, work together and behave. It represents what’s

truly important to us as individuals and as a team. It is easily translatable into behaviours we all practice and experience every day. It's the golden thread that runs through every leader, team and individual.   

The role: 

We are looking for a Lead Clinician to manage our in-house Clinical Team at Strawberry Lane School. The postholder will work collaboratively with both the school’s Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and the Regional Clinical Lead. The role will be split between clinically leading the team and holding a clinical caseload. Working collaboratively with the team, the postholder will deliver bespoke assessment and intervention plans for our students who may present with complex profiles of need as a result of their autism and other types of neurodivergence, developmental trauma and social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs.  Meeting the needs of EHCP plans will be a primary focus in this role, target led, via the OFG ‘all’, ‘group’ and ‘individual’ clinical ways of working, embedded into our clinical practice. They will also be responsible for coordinating the line management of the members of the onsite clinical team and leading on the service development of the clinical school-based service, alongside the school SLT and Regional Clinical Lead. 

Our Clinical Teams help maintain a person-centred, empowering approach always putting the pupils we support at the forefront of everything they do. All our settings maintain a strong safeguardin

g culture, and the pupils we support are heard, respected, and involved in decisions that affect them. We strive for excellence, which is why we are one of the leading service providers in the UK.  With this in mind, we are looking for a Lead Clinician who shares our vision to use innovative approaches to enhance the quality of life and outcomes of the pupils we support.

Location: Strawberry Lane School – Durham DH6 5BE – Strawberry Lane School forms part of our Options Autism brand, and is an independent specialist day school, supporting children and young people aged 11 – 19

Strawberry Lane School

Education - Options Autism

For further information regarding this vacancy please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached.  

Essential Criteria

Professional qualification in either Psychotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy or Occupational Therapy and at least 5 years post qualification experience, ideally including leadership and management

Valid and up to date professional Registration & membership of professional body e.g. BPS, RCSLT, RCOT

Experience within the specialist client group; working with autistic individuals and/or those with complex needs.

Clear and concise report writing relating to clinical and research activities

Experience of providing supervision and supporting a clinical team

Ability to work independently

Ability to work dynamically an

d within a growing and developing clinical service

Experience of multi-professional work with teams or services within the designated specialty preferred

Full UK valid driving licence and access to own vehicle

Why work for us? 

Alongside working with a network of over 350 clinical colleagues with regular forums for peer reflection and practice development, Outcomes First Group offer an array of flexible benefit options: 

 Benefits 

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward and flexible benefits package including: 

Life Assurance 

Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions 

“Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks 

• You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy. 4DWW is subject to successful completion of probation and is not a contractual benefit
  
  

Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.

A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits 

100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad 

Cycle to Work Schemes 

Electric Car Purchase Scheme 

Critical illness cover  

 Job Ref: 302527