The post holder will provide a senior leadership role, taking operational responsibility for the delivery of ASD assessments, diagnoses and interventions for children referred to the 0-5 Autism assessment pathways across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, trialling and testing the impact of early identification and intervention.
The role provides opportunities to develop both your clinical and team leadership, and your service delivery and performance management skills.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO:

Be part of the Child Development Centres’ leadership team; implementing, developing, and evaluating the service.
To work in close partnership with other professionals and organisations to deliver care, making a significant contribution to improving health, social and education outcomes, and reducing inequalities.
Be responsible for issues relating to clinical and best practice in schools alongside education colleagues.
And continue to provide direct, highly specialist care for children, their families and school staff

This will be a fascinating role for you to consider.

• Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications are received, we advise you to submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
• Leadership and Operational responsibility for the delivery and management of the CDC Autism assessment and intervention team within the CDC.
• Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the CDC Autism assessment and intervention team within the CDC.
• Provide expert clinical advice to system partners.
• Work in collaboration with leads in Health, Education and Social Care to develop the assessment and intervention pathways and their evaluation, with the focus on identification and system wide early intervention.
• Provide Line management for identified CDC practitioners.
• To provide highly specialist assessment, contribute to diagnosis and appropriate intervention for children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
• To provide specialist advice, strategies, and clinical reports for children undergoing Autism Diagnostic assessment and follow up care.
• To work collaboratively with parents/carers, sharing knowledge and skills and supporting them to develop their understanding of their child’s speech, language, and communication difficulties and how they can help their child communicate.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role

• Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications are received, we advise you to submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
• Leadership and Operational responsibility for the delivery and management of the CDC Autism assessment and intervention team within the CDC.
• Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the CDC Autism assessment and intervention team within the CDC.
• Provide expert clinical advice to system partners.
• Work in collaboration with leads in Health, Education and Social Care to develop the assessment and intervention pathways and their evaluation, with the focus on identification and system wide early intervention.
• Provide Line management for identified CDC practitioners.
• To provide highly specialist assessment, contribute to diagnosis and appropriate intervention for children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
• To provide specialist advice, strategies, and clinical reports for children undergoing Autism Diagnostic assessment and follow up care.
• To work collaboratively with parents/carers, sharing knowledge and skills and supporting them to develop their understanding of their child’s speech, language, and communication difficulties and how they can help their child communicate