Clinical Lead- Young People with Learning Disabilities and Autism Barts Health NHS Trust

Seprinsa; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in London is seeking a Clinical Lead for their Adult Learning Disability team. This role focuses on enhancing care quality for children and young people with learning disabilities and autism. The successful candidate will provide clinical leadership, support frontline staff, and engage families in service development. This position is fully funded for three years and offers a dedicated administrator to assist in service improvement and innovation.

Qualifications

• Expert clinical leadership to enhance care quality.
• Support and empower frontline staff.
• Engage families and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical leadership for children with learning disabilities.
• Embed best practices across hospital sites.
• Use data to drive measurable improvements in care.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Data Analysis

Education

Relevant Clinical Qualification

Job description

This newly created role is a vital addition to our established Adult Learning Disability team, ensuring a seamless approach to care for children and young people. Funded for three years by Barts Charity, the post will be fully supported by a dedicated administrator, allowing you to focus on service improvement and innovation.

As Clinical Lead, you will:


• Provide expert clinical leadership to enhance care quality and outcomes for children and young people with learning disabilities and autism.
• Embed best practice across all Barts Health hospital sites and community settings, championing patient passports, reasonable adjustments, and accessible communication.
• Support and empower frontline staff, equipping them with the knowledge and tools to deliver person-centred care.
• Bridge the gap between acute and community services, ensuring a smooth and effective care pathway.
• Engage families, carers, and external partners, placing lived experience at the heart of service development.
• Use data and insights to drive measurable improvements in care, ensuring an evidence-based approach to transformation.

Barts Health NHS Trust is committed to reducing health inequalities for people with learning disabilities (LD) and/or autism by ensuring frontline staff have the skills, knowledge, and confidence to provide high-quality, accessible care. The Learning Disability Team plays a key role in supporting staff to communicate effectively, make reasonable adjustments, and advocate for patients to ensure their needs are met across all care settings.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

"We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band".

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.


This advert closes on Thursday 29 May 2025