WHY ORRI?

Orri is an ambitious & ground-breaking company committed to changing the way we treat eating disorders in the UK and beyond. We are looking for a Clinical Lead for our outpatient and online services.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERTISE:

• The Clinical Lead is an accredited clinician (Psychotherapist, Psychologist, OT, Nurse, Dietitian) with experience of working in an Eating Disorder (preferred) or Psychiatric setting.
• Extensive experience working with eating disorders across different levels of care, including outpatient and online settings.
• Proven clinical leadership skills, with the ability to guide, support, and inspire a multidisciplinary team.
• Skilled in clinical risk assessment, safeguarding, and crisis management.
• Experience in service development, audit, and quality improvement processes.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

This is an exciting new role that will clinically lead and manage the services, as well as supporting with service development. You will work closely with the Director or Outpatient and Online Services with a specific focus on leading the clinical day to day running of the service. You will provide a crucial link with the In person Day Care Service Manager and team.
You will work with both adults and young people (aged 13 and above), and their families, ensuring care is age-appropriate, inclusive, and collaborative. You will ensure risk assessments, consents, and physical observations are up to date and compliant, and will lead on investigations, identifying and implementing improvements to enhance the quality and safety of our services.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To ensure the service delivered meets the high levels of care offered at Orri, you will oversee team members delivering client work leading handovers, offering line management, reflective practice, mentoring, and supervision. You will support team members with higher risk clients and support clients when risks or concerns are increasing.
• You will be an active part of the service development working with the CEO, Managing Director, Service Director and Director of Outpatient and Online Services. You will lead on embedding specialist pathways, clinical operational and case management processes and specific diagnosis focused programmes and outcomes into the Outpatient and Online Daycare services establishing safe, effective and responsive processes. You will work with the Service Director and Research and Development team to monitor outcomes and use this data to inform ongoing service delivery.
• Alongside the Director of Outpatient and Online Services you will ensure the service is meeting its regulatory requirements and ensure it continues to deliver outstanding care across the CQC Key Lines of Enquiry.
• You will support risk management and safeguarding, and manage concerns, complaints and compliments ensuring the service is open to learning from mistakes.
• Alongside the Outpatient and Online Service Director you will work to constantly improve the service with strong quality initiatives. You will work alongside the Social Worker when managing safeguarding and the Nurse Lead to ensure clients physical health pathways are delivered.
• The Clinical Lead works closely with the Admissions Manager to ensure that all aspects of the admission (pre intake, admission and discharge) are met with responsive, effective, caring and safe processes and promotes Orri’s values and commitment to recovery throughout.
• The Clinical Lead works closely with the Nurse Lead and the Care, Quality and Compliance Manager to ensure the service maintains its high levels of clinical documentation, auditing and regulatory compliance, and works alongside the team the team to ensure that best practices are followed, both for clinical treatment and management, in accordance with Orri’s policies and Regulatory requirements.
• The Clinical Lead works closely with the Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. You will actively promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion by both attending and supporting team members attendance in Orri’s DEI programme. You will embed DEI policies and practices into the outpatient team to support the healthy functioning of the service and to ensure we meet the diverse need of the team and our clients.