A skilled and experienced Practice Supervisor with a deep understanding of systemic practice and a particular interest in neurodiversity.

The Post holder plays a key role in providing clinical oversight, supervision, and guidance to our multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality and person-centred support for individuals with Autism and those on the diagnostic pathway.

This role requires a focus on restorative, trauma informed practice, leadership skills, and a commitment to promoting inclusivity and empowerment.

Base: County Hall, Chelmsford.  Travel in the Essex area to meet the needs of Children and Young People

This service runs Monday to Saturday 8am -8pm. This is a full-time position with the flexibility to work evenings and weekends as required.

You will feel valued as a Practise Supervisor for our Autism Outreach Service within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• AfC Band 7 salary with NHS Pension
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

• Provide supervision and guidance to a multidisciplinary team of professionals, including Senior Autism Outreach Practitioners, Autism Outreach Practitioners, and Peer Support Workers.
• Utilise systemic practice principles to support staff in understanding the complex needs of individuals with Autism and their families.
• Bring specialised knowledge and expertise in neurodiversity to the supervision process, ensuring that team members are equipped to understand and address the unique challenges and strengths of individuals with Autism.
• Offer guidance on evidence-based interventions and approaches that promote neurodiversity acceptance and inclusion.
• Facilitate ongoing professional development and training opportunities for team members, with a focus on enhancing their understanding of neurodiversity and systemic practice.
• Provide case consultation and support to team members, assisting them in developing effective support plans and interventions for individuals with Autism.
• Collaborate with other professionals and agencies involved in the care of service users to ensure a coordinated and holistic approach to support.
• Conduct regular reviews and audits to monitor the quality and effectiveness of interventions, identifying areas for improvement and implementing action plans as needed.
• Champion the integration of lived experience perspectives into reflective supervision and service delivery processes. 

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

• Current registration as a Clinical Psychologist, Social Worker, or equivalent professional accreditation.
• ·Substantial experience in providing trauma informed clinical supervision and guidance in a mental health or social services setting, with a focus on neurodiversity.
• Strong understanding of neurodevelopmental conditions, including Autism spectrum disorders, and evidence-based interventions.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a multidisciplinary team.
• Commitment to promoting inclusivity, diversity, and empowerment in all aspects of service delivery.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders and build strong partnerships across sectors. 
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development and continuous learning in the field of neurodiversity.
• Driving licence and access to vehicle for work purposes

Travel within Essex, Southend, and Thurrock may be required to fulfill the responsibilities of the role. 

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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