ADHD Clinical Lead

NHS; Chichester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A neurodevelopmental health service is seeking an experienced ADHD Clinical Lead to oversee and lead high-quality ADHD assessments and treatment services. This role includes strategic leadership across ADHD and wider neurodevelopmental services while ensuring compliance with clinical guidelines. The ideal candidate will have extensive clinical experience, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to improving patient outcomes, with additional perks such as a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Private Health Insurance

Ongoing CPD and clinician development

Pension Contribution

Employee Discount Platform

Qualifications

• Extensive clinical experience in Neurodevelopmental Assessments (ADHD and Autism) across the lifespan.
• Proven senior leadership experience, including supervision pathway oversight and support of clinical teams.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Oversee clinical operations, guiding multidisciplinary teams.
• Ensure services are delivered in line with best practice and clinical guidelines.
• Provide clinical leadership and governance oversight for ADHD services.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Neurodevelopmental assessments

Decision-making

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse or Pharmacist (GPhC) with V300 qualification

Psychiatrist or Paediatrician

Job description

KT Healthcare are seeking an experienced ADHD Clinical Lead to join our growing neurodevelopmental service. This brand new role offers a unique opportunity to shape and lead high-quality ADHD assessment, diagnostic and treatment services, support the development of clinical teams, and make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes.

As ADHD Clinical Lead, you will provide strategic and clinical leadership across our ADHD and wider neurodevelopmental services. You will playa central role in ensuring clinical excellence while fostering a collaborative, innovative, and supportive culture.

Main duties of the job

You willbe responsible foroverseeing clinical operations, guiding multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring services are delivered in line with best practice, clinical guidelines, and regulatory standards.

Working closely with senior leadership, you will help shape the future direction of our services while remaining clinically involved in complex case management.

About us

Why Join Us?

KT Healthcare is a family-owned organisation with personal experience of Autism and ADHD. We offer a service with a difference; one that has a real understanding of the challenges families and individuals face when accessing neurodevelopmental services.

We have grown and continue to grow rapidly but never lose sight of why we started to ensure every client receives the best possible service and care, every time. If you value exceptional client service, operational excellence, a friendly and compassionate culture, and unwavering integrity, then KT Healthcare might be the place for you!

• Opportunity to shape and influence growing neurodevelopmental services
• Collaborative, supportive, and values-driven clinical culture
• A role with genuine impact on both clients and clinical professionals
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• 3 additional paid festive days
• Private Health Insurance
• Employee Discount Platform
• EAP Service
• Pension Contribution
• Ongoing CPD and clinician development

Job responsibilities

ADHD Clinical Lead

Location: Ideally you will be local to Chichester however we will consider remote working with travel to head office as required

Contract: Full-time

KT Healthcare are seeking an experienced ADHD Clinical Lead to join our growing neurodevelopmental service. This brand new role offers a unique opportunity to shape and lead high-quality ADHD assessment, diagnostic and treatment services, support the development of clinical teams, and make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes.

As ADHD Clinical Lead, you will provide strategic and clinical leadership across our ADHD and wider neurodevelopmental services. You will playa central role in ensuring clinical excellence while fostering a collaborative, innovative, and supportive culture.

The Role

You will be responsible for overseeing clinical operations, guiding multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring services are delivered in line with best practice, clinical guidelines, and regulatory standards. Working closely with senior leadership, you will help shape the future direction of our services while remaining clinically involved in complex case management.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Leadership

Provide senior clinical leadership, supervision, and oversight to multidisciplinary teams delivering high-quality ADHD assessments across the lifespan. You will also bring experience in autism assessments and be able to support clinicians across the wider neurodevelopmental service. This will include:

• Provide senior clinical guidance to assessors, prescribers, and relevant team members
• Participate in governance meetings and contribute to continuous service improvement
• Support supervision structures and quality assurance activity, in line with professional scope

Service Development

Work collaboratively with senior leadership to design, develop, and implement innovative clinical pathways and service models that respond to patient need, regulatory requirements, and ongoing service growth. This will include the building of a strong, collaborative team across the organisation to ensure cohesive, effective service delivery.

Quality, Safety & Governance

• Champion the delivery of safe, effective, and evidence-based care at all times.
• Provide input into and oversight of clinical governance frameworks across ADHD assessment and treatment pathways
• Maintain and continuously improve clinical standards, report quality, and documentation consistency
• Develop, review, and implement clinical templates, assessment processes, and SOPs for both assessment and prescribing ADHD pathways
• Provide senior clinical oversight for diagnostic reasoning, risk management, and safeguarding pathways
• Support and contribute to audit activity, including advising and reviewing documentation audits, outcomes review, patient feedback, and clinical risk monitoring

Regulatory Compliance & Inspection Readiness

• Support readiness for CQC registration and inspections
• Ensure clinical governance processes align with CQC standards and evidence-based requirements
• Contribute to the maintenance of governance logs (incidents, complaints, safeguarding) and ensure learning and actions are embedded
• Act as a senior clinical point of contact for compliance-related clinical queries, working closely with operational colleagues

Complex Case Management

Provide expert clinical input into complex cases, supporting safe decision-making and adherence to national guidance and professional standards.

Performance Management

Monitor and support clinical performance, developing standards for clinical supervision, addressing challenges constructively while fostering a positive, accountable, and high-performing clinical culture.

Clinical Service Delivery

During the growth phase of the service the role will include:

• Conducting ADHD assessments in line with NICE guidelines
• Delivering protocols for initial medication appointments and follow-up reviews (for Non-Medical Prescribers)
• Providing clinical input into pathway development and multidisciplinary working

What we are looking for

• A Registered Mental Health Nurse or Pharmacist (GPhC) with a V300 qualification
• Or, a Psychiatrist or Paediatrician
• Extensive clinical experience in Neurodevelopmental Assessments (ADHD and Autism) across the lifespan
• Proven senior leadership experience, including supervision pathway oversight and support of clinical teams
• Excellent clinical judgement, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage at all levels
• Highly organised, adaptable, and comfortable managing competing priorities
• Collaborative and approachable leadership style
• Experience contributing to service development, ideally across right to choose pathways.

Why Join Us?

KT Healthcare is a family-owned organisation with personal experience of Autism and ADHD. We offer a service with a difference; one that has a real understanding of the challenges families and individuals face when accessing neurodevelopmental services.

We have grown and continue to grow rapidly but never lose sight of why we started to ensure every client receives the best possible service and care, every time. If you value exceptional client service, operational excellence, a friendly and compassionate culture, and unwavering integrity, then KT Healthcare might be the place for you!

• Opportunity to shape and influence growing neurodevelopmental services
• Collaborative, supportive, and values-driven clinical culture
• A role with genuine impact on both clients and clinical professionals
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• 3 additional paid festive days
• Private Health Insurance
• Employee Discount Platform
• EAP Service
• Pension Contribution
• Ongoing CPD and clinician development
• A culture that challenges the norm as a family run business, we know how important a fair, flexible employer that listens and cares is. We are dedicated to continuing to build a culture where people enjoy work, can thrive in their role and are supported from day one.

Person Specification

Experience

• ADHD and Autism assessment
• Operated in similar leadership role at a remote-first company

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£70,000 to £80,000 a yearExcellent benefits package

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

AH1470866ChiACL

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