Lead Clinician

Job Title: Lead Clinician
Location: Brick Lane School - London E2 6DY

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 (pro rata, DOE)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday 8.30am-4.30pm
Contract: Permanent (52 weeks)

In a world where the demand for clinical support is increasing daily, we understand the importance and value of the work you carry out. Your unique skills and expertise are critical to building better outcomes for our students. This is why we aim to have a multidisciplinary clinical team for each of our sites to provide this vital provision in collaboration with our education teams.

Creating an environment where our students can truly flourish and grow in independence is key.

Every student is unique. Education should be personalised around them.

For more than 20 years, OFG Education has developed a deep understanding of how education designed around the individual can improve outcomes. We know that when students are understood - their strengths, interests, ambitions, starting points and needs - we can create personalised pathways that help them achieve and thrive. Across our specialist schools, independent schools, online provision and support services, every student benefits from education shaped around who they are and what they can become.

We combine educational and clinical expertise with research, evidence-informed practice, innovation and technology, underpinned by consistently high standards.

From deep specialist support to exceptional academic challenge, we are ambitious for every student, helping them achieve academically, discover their strengths and develop the knowledge, skills, confidence and attitudes they need for learning, work and life.

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We are looking for a Lead Clinician to manage our in-house Clinical Team at Brick Lane School. The postholder will work collaboratively with both the school's Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and the Regional Clinical Lead. The role will be split between clinically leading the team and holding a therapy caseload. Working collaboratively with the team, the postholder will deliver bespoke assessment and intervention plans for our students who may present with complex profiles of need as a result of autism and other types of neurodivergence, developmental trauma and social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs.

Meeting the needs of EHCP plans will be a primary focus in this role, target-led, via the OFG 'all', 'group' and 'individual' clinical ways of working, embedded into our clinical practice. They will also be responsible for coordinating the line management of the members of the onsite clinical team and leading on the service development of the clinical school-based service, alongside the school SLT and Regional Clinical Lead.

Brick Lane School
- London E2 6DY

- Brick Lane School forms part of our Options Autism brand, and is an independent specialist day school, supporting students aged 5 - 18

• BSc or MSc in Speech & Language Therapy
• A Registered Practitioner with the HCPC and RCSLT
• Valid and up to date professional Registration & membership of professional body e.g. BPS
• Experience with in the specialist client group; working with autistic individuals and/or those with complex needs.
• Clear and concise report writing relating to clinical and research activities
• Experience of providing supervision and supporting a therapy team
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to work dynamically and within a growing and developing clinical service
• Experience of multi-professional work with teams or services within the designated specialty preferred

Alongside working with a network of…