Be U Autism Assessment Service Lead in Scarborough

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

Main duties of the job:

• 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.
• Drive continuous service improvement, maintain best practice standards, and deliver added-value initiatives.
• Supervise and manage 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.
• Support the design and implementation of post-intervention support, provide fair and balanced feedback, and challenge poor practice when needed.
• Ensure partnership working with young people, families, carers, schools, and other stakeholders, sharing learning through case studies and feedback.
• Ensure full compliance with ABL policies, safeguarding requirements, quality assurance, and data management.
• Proactively identify risks, respond to concerns, contribute to monthly performance reporting, support quality audits, manage the service within budget, and maintain strong relationships with system partners.

Job responsibilities:

• 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.
• Support Be U Norfolk, Adult Autism Assessment Service, when required or in the absence of the Head of Service.
• Ensure the highest quality and standards of support is provided to children and young people/Adults, their families, and a range of other professionals.
• 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.
• Oversee 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.
• 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.
• Identify potential problems, acting proactively to avoid service breakdowns, deal with complaints and mitigate all types of risk.
• Prepare and support data led monthly performance monitoring feedback to the Divisional Lead and ABL Executive Directors.
• Work flexibly and adapt to suit the service need.
• Support routine quality auditing processes.
• Engage and foster positive working relationships with stakeholders and system partners.

Other Duties:

• There may be a requirement to undertake other duties as may reasonably be required to support the Be U Autism Assessment Services and the wider ABL Health Mental Health Division.

Standard Information:

• Employees of ABL Health must comply with the provisions of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
• The postholder must not disclose any information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation.
• The postholder will be required to comply with the processing of requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
• The postholder must comply with ABL's policies that protect the information assets of the organisation.

Health & Safety:

• Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 is required.
• The postholder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions.

Safeguarding:

• ABL has a responsibility to ensure that all children / young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected.

Training:

• The postholder must attend any training that is identified as mandatory to their role.

Equality, Diversity & Human Rights:

• It is the responsibility of every person to act in ways to support equality and diversity and to respect human rights.

Person Specification:

• Knowledge of the issues that affect the families of children and young people on pathways for assessment.
• Knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Knowledge of mental health conditions.
• Minimum of 2 years management experience, in an operational role.
• Experience of health and social care/support delivery.
• Experience of service management.
• Experience of delivering complex needs services to children and young people.
• Experience of consultations with young people and families.
• Experience of working in community settings.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working.
• Ability to work effectively within safeguarding procedures.
• Competent at processing/interpreting service data and responding to identified needs through SMART action planning.
• Skills in providing consultation/training to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision.
• Experience of assessment, formulation, and intervention.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

• This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.