Children’s Autism Team Lead: Sponsorship Available

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for Autism Team Leader for our Child Development Psychology team to join our Child Health Department at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

The post holder will be responsible for the co-ordination and operationaldelivery of autism assessments conducted by The Autism Team as part of the Paediatric Autism Pathway at Chesterfield Royal.

The Autism Team consists of multi-disciplinary professionals which shall consist of clinical psychology, assistant psychologist, mental health nurses and speech and language therapists.

You will provide first line management and leadership to clinicians in TheAutism Team ensuring that care is of the highest standard and delivered inaccordance with Policies and Procedure.

Main duties of the job

You will be an active, autonomous member of a multi-disciplinary team providing specialist psychological services to children, adolescents, and families in North Derbyshire. Your role will include:

Being responsible for the effective day to day operational delivery of autism assessments provided by The Autism Team.

To be an active member of the Autism Pathway Clinical Leadership.

To be responsible for updating the Care Unit Management Team of team work and in partnership plan to meet any gaps or issues identified in service delivery.

To be responsible for staff development and training.

To support the development of protocols for pathways of assessment and the assessment process.

To provide management and leadership for The Autism Team.

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

  • Knowledge of appropriate clinical models and approaches relevant to working with young people with Autism
  • Experience of carrying out service evaluations
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desirable

  • Skills in working with emotional and behavioural problems with children and families
  • Knowledge of relevant NICE guidelines

Personal

Essential

  • Ability to tolerate and manage highly distressing emotional issues
  • Ability to manage and work with organisational stress and to effectively manage the stress of others
  • Ability to engage in sustained mental effort involving tasks demanding intense concentration

Trust Values

Essential

  • Proud to CARE

Experience

Essential

  • Experience and knowledge of working with young people with learning disabilities/autism/neuro-development diagnoses/Epilepsy
  • Expeience of carrying out complex psychological assessments with young people
  • Writing concise psychological reports.
  • To have worked therapeutically with young people and families

Desirable

  • Experience of delivering training to professionals and parents.
  • Experience of working with other professionals as part of an assessment team
  • Experience of supervising others

Qualifications

Essential

  • Doctoral Qualification in Clinical Psychology

Desirable

  • Additional training post doctorate
  • Training in a specific therapeutic approach

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 9 September 2026

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