Be U Autism Assessment Service Lead

The purpose of ABLs Be U Autism Assessment Service is to provide assessments for children, young people and adults on the autism assessment pathway via the NHS.

You will ensure high-quality support is consistently delivered to children, young people/adults, and their families, working collaboratively with professionals to enable access to the service. You will drive continuous service improvement, maintain best practice standards, and deliver added-value initiatives. The role includes supervising and managing the Be U team through regular 1:1s and annual reviews, providing coaching, overseeing recruitment, and managing day-to-day operations such as allocating assessments, leading meetings, and monitoring referral processes.

You will support the design and implementation of post-intervention support, provide fair and balanced feedback, and challenge poor practice when needed. A key part of the role is ensuring partnership working with young people, families, carers, schools, and other stakeholders, sharing learning through case studies and feedback. You will ensure full compliance with ABL policies, safeguarding requirements, quality assurance, and data management.

The role also involves proactively identifying risks, responding to concerns, contributing to monthly performance reporting, supporting quality audits, managing the service within budget, and maintaining strong relationships with system partners. Duties may evolve to meet service needs and may include additional responsibilities aligned to your professional skills.

ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. As an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative, effective, and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities and stakeholders.

Job Purpose:

The post holder will be expected to develop, manage and lead the efficient and effective delivery of the Be U North Yorkshire Assessment Service for children/young people on the autism assessment pathway. The post holder will also be required to support Be U Norfolk, Adult Autism Assessment Service, when required or in the absence of the Head of Service.

Key Responsibilities:

Ensure the highest quality and standards of support is provided to children and young people/ Adults, their families, and a range of other professionals, enabling the child/young person to access the service.

Drive continual service improvement ensuring contemporary best practice is maintained and contract added value initiatives delivered

Supervise and manage the Be U team via monthly 1:1 and annual performance reviews.

Provide guidance and direct coaching.

Have a key role in the recruitment of staff to the service

Overseeing the day-to-day management of the team, including allocating assessments, leading meetings and ensuring an exceptional service is delivered

Take an active role in the reviewing, monitoring and prioritisation of referrals alongside other team members.

Have an input in the design implementation of the post intervention monitoring and support elements of the service, for each individual client.

Present fair, balanced feedback/support to staff and family members. Recognise and challenge areas of poor practice and institutionalised culture.

Ensure that all service delivery is reviewed for each young person on a frequent basis.

Ensure that the service works in partnership with the young person and all of those who are important to them including their family and friends, carers, and other professionals and actively include these people in conducting reviews.

Work closely with other stakeholders such as schools including delivering direct support and guidance to staff.

Disseminate learning from the service to enable other stakeholders to benefit from the service, through building case studies and utilising feedback.

Ensure that all ABL policies and procedures are understood and implemented by staff, to include quality assurance, regulatory, risk frameworks, safeguarding, child protection, criminal records, data protection, HR and health and safety.

Ensure all relevant records in relation to the young people accessing the service, and employees are appropriately maintained and up to date and compiled and delivered as required for/to relevant authorities.

Identify potential problems, acting proactively to avoid service breakdowns, deal with complaints and to mitigate all types of risk through the liaising with parents/ families and other professionals.

Prepare and support data led monthly performance monitoring feedback to the Divisional Lead and ABL Executive Directors (Performance Review Boards).

Work flexibly and adapt to suit the service need

Ensure the service operates within the set budget

Support routine quality auditing processes

Engage and foster positive working relationships with stakeholders and system partners.

List of duties not exhaustive,…