Clinical Practitioner

SeeAbility; West Byfleet; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist support charity in West Byfleet is seeking a Clinical Practitioner to enhance the lives of individuals with learning disabilities and autism. The role involves ensuring high-quality support, engaging with multidisciplinary teams, and delivering vital training. A suitable candidate will possess resilience, strong communication skills, and a valid UK driving licence. This role offers competitive pay and numerous benefits, including career development opportunities.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

Pension

Good management support

Career development

Recognition & Rewards

Work-Life Balance

Financial Benefits

Wellbeing Support

Qualifications

• Strong English communication skills (spoken & written) required.
• Resilient, confident, and ready to take on challenges.
• Experience in assisting new people to support is essential.

Responsibilities

• Assist service manager for high quality support.
• Support the PBS implementation at the home.
• Encourage trauma-informed approaches in work.
• Support Behaviour Consultant with assessments.
• Deliver PROACT-SCIPr-UK training to teams.

Skills

Strong English communication skills

Resilience

Confidence in engaging groups

Experience in managing assessments

Manual UK driving licence

Experience with learning disabilities

Education

Relevant bachelor's or master's degree

Job description

Clinical Practitioner - Make Every Day Matter!

Location: Byfleet, Surrey
Salary: £28,000 per annum, plus benefits
Hours: 37.5 per week
Driving Licence: Manual UK licence essential
Visa Sponsorships: Not available

An exciting, new opportunity has arisen for a passionate and dedicated clinical practitioner to help manage and support our brand new supported living homes in Surrey, and to help the people we support to live, love, thrive and belong.

What’s In It For You?

• Highly competitive salary
• Pension
• Good management support
• Career development

What You'll Need

• Strong English communication skills (spoken & written) and ability to produce written reports
• Be resilient, confident and ready to take on any challenge
• Confident engaging with diverse groups of people, family members and multi‑disciplinary agencies
• Experience in assisting with managing and assessments of new people to support
• A valid manual UK driving licence
• The legal right to live and work in the UK
• Experience working directly with people who have learning disabilities, autism and mental health conditions, multi‑sensory impairments and challenging behaviours

Candidates will receive clinical supervision as part of this role, which can include UKBA (cert) supervision if required. If candidates are currently undertaking a bachelor's or master's degree in an associated subject (e.g., PBS, ABA, psychology), support will be available.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Assist the service manager to ensure that everyone receives high quality support, the people we support and the team supporting them. Including staff clinical supervisions, training new team members and supporting the team to complete support plans and risk assessments.
• Support the implementation of PBS across an identified home.
• Uphold and ensure a trauma‑informed approach throughout your work and encourage this in the work of those around you.
• Support the Behaviour Consultant with assessments and delivering interventions; ensuring both clinical and operational effectiveness for the people we support and their teams.
• Deliver PROACT‑SCIPr‑UK® training to our support teams.
• Support the business development team with new referrals.
• Work with the families of the people we support to continue to build open, honest, and transparent working relationships.

Who You’ll Be Supporting

Byfleet Supported Living: Where Exceptional Care meets Extraordinary Lives!

Byfleet Supported living is more than just a home - it's a place where adults with autism and learning disabilities are empowered to live life to the fullest.

With the purpose‑built homes, every person we support receives truly personalised care from our incredible team. They're not just support workers - they are champions. Positive, non‑judgemental, and consistent, they bring compassion, energy and heart to everything they do.

You’ll be making a real impact with people who have:

• Autism and Learning Disabilities
• Mental health needs
• Physical and sensory disabilities
• Challenging behaviours

Ready to Apply?

If you’re looking for a role where you don't just work — you thrive, hit that apply button and let’s make a difference together.

Our Benefits

Why work for us?

• Recognition & Rewards: From excellence awards to long service recognition, your hard work won't go unnoticed.
• Work‑Life Balance: Enjoy up to 36 days of holiday with long service, flexible working options, and time off for life events.
• Financial Benefits: Discounts, cashback, pension schemes, and more, to help your money go further.
• Wellbeing Support: Access to a 24/7 employee assistance program, life assurance and sick pay.
• Refer a Friend: Receive £600 (Support Workers to Senior Support Worker only)

About Us

Registered as The Royal School for the Blind, SeeAbility is one of the oldest disability charities in the UK. This year we are celebrating our 225th anniversary, having pioneered specialist support across multiple generations since 1799! We specialise in supporting people who have learning disabilities, autism, complex needs, who may also have sight loss. Our support ranges from providing person‑centred support across our many supported‑living and residential care provisions. Furthermore, we provide specialist eye‑care services to children and adults alike and assists people with a disability to find paid employment for the very first time. SeeAbility provides the resources and expertise that make this possible, we support people to live ambitious lives and achieve things they never thought possible.

Safeguarding and Promoting Welfare

SeeAbility is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. We expect all staff to uphold this commitment and have a strong understanding of their roles and responsibilities in safeguarding.

Safer Recruitment

As part of our safer recruitment procedures, we require the following checks for all successful applicants:

• A criminal background check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (where appropriate).
• Documentary evidence to confirm your identity, current address, and the right to work in the UK.
• Health Declaration to ensure that you are medically suitable for the role you have been offered.
• References will be obtained to ensure satisfactory evidence of conduct in current or previous employment concerned with the provision of services relating to (a) health or social care, or (b) children or vulnerable adults. These checks will be carried out and completed prior offering a date to start employment at SeeAbility's expense.

Diversity

SeeAbility is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from individuals of all identities, including those from underrepresented groups and those who have a disability or neurodivergent condition. We are pleased to confirm we are a Disability Confident employer. We believe a diverse workforce drives innovation, creativity, and success. Everyone's unique experiences and views are appreciated, and their opinion valued. We are happy to offer any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role itself to ensure a fair and equitable experience for all candidates.

In exceptional circumstances, the exempt from the Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, Part 1) which provides for the application of a genuine occupational requirement.