ADHD Clinical Lead in Chichester

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Location: Ideally you will be based within travelling distance of Chichester although we will consider remote working with travel to head office as required.

Contract: Full-time

Salary: Up to £80,000 depending on experience, plus excellent benefits package.

KT Healthcare are seeking an experienced ADHD Clinical Lead to join our growing neurodevelopmental service. This brand new role offers a unique opportunity to shape and lead high-quality ADHD assessment, diagnostic and treatment services, support the development of clinical teams, and make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes.

As ADHD Clinical Lead, you will provide strategic and clinical leadership across our ADHD and wider neurodevelopmental services. You will play a central role in ensuring clinical excellence while fostering a collaborative, innovative, and supportive culture.

The Role

• You will be responsible for overseeing clinical operations, guiding multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring services are delivered in line with best practice, clinical guidelines, and regulatory standards.
• Working closely with senior leadership, you will help shape the future direction of our services while remaining clinically involved in complex case management.

Key Responsibilities

• Clinical Leadership
  • Provide senior clinical guidance to assessors, prescribers, and relevant team members.
  • Participate in governance meetings and contribute to continuous service improvement.
  • Support supervision structures and quality assurance activity, in line with professional scope.
• Service Development
  • Work collaboratively with senior leadership to design, develop, and implement innovative clinical pathways and service models that respond to patient need, regulatory requirements, and ongoing service growth.
  • Build a strong, collaborative team across the organisation to ensure cohesive, effective service delivery.
• Quality, Safety & Governance
  • Champion the delivery of safe, effective, and evidence-based care at all times.
  • Provide input into and oversight of clinical governance frameworks across ADHD assessment and treatment pathways.
  • Maintain and continuously improve clinical standards, report quality, and documentation consistency.
  • Develop, review, and implement clinical templates, assessment processes, and SOPs for both assessment and prescribing ADHD pathways.
  • Provide senior clinical oversight for diagnostic reasoning, risk management, and safeguarding pathways.
  • Support and contribute to audit activity, including devising and reviewing documentation audits, outcomes review, patient feedback, and clinical risk monitoring.
• Regulatory Compliance & Inspection Readiness
  • Support readiness for CQC registration and inspections.
  • Ensure clinical governance processes align with CQC standards and evidence-based requirements.
  • Contribute to the maintenance of governance logs (incidents, complaints, safeguarding) and ensure learning and actions are embedded.
  • Act as a senior clinical point of contact for compliance-related clinical queries, working closely with operational colleagues.
• Complex Case Management
  • Provide expert clinical input into complex cases, supporting safe decision-making and adherence to national guidance and professional standards.
• Performance Management
  • Monitor and support clinical performance, developing standards for clinical supervision, addressing challenges constructively while fostering a positive, accountable, and high-performing clinical culture.
• Clinical Service Delivery (growth phase)
  • Conduct ADHD assessments in line with NICE guidelines.
  • Deliver protocols for initial medication appointments and follow-up reviews (for Non-Medical Prescribers).
  • Provide clinical input into pathway development and multidisciplinary working.

What We’re Looking For

• A Registered Mental Health Nurse or Pharmacist (GPhC) with a V300 qualification or a Psychiatrist or Paediatrician.
• Extensive clinical experience in Neurodevelopmental Assessments (ADHD and Autism) across the lifespan.
• Proven senior leadership experience, including supervision pathway oversight and support of clinical teams.
• Excellent clinical judgement, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage at all levels.
• Highly organised, adaptable, and comfortable managing competing priorities.
• Collaborative and approachable leadership style.
• Experience contributing to service development, ideally across right to choose pathways.

Why Join Us?

• KT Healthcare is a family-owned organisation with personal experience of Autism and ADHD.
• We offer a service with a difference; one that has a real understanding of the challenges families and individuals face when accessing neurodevelopmental services.
• We have grown and continue to grow rapidly but never lose sight of why we started – to ensure every client receives the best possible service and care, every time.
• If you value exceptional client service, operational excellence, a friendly and compassionate culture, and unwavering integrity, then KT Healthcare might be the place for you!

Opportunity to shape and influence growing neurodevelopmental services.

Collaborative, supportive, and values-driven clinical culture.

A role with genuine impact on both clients and clinical professionals.

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.

3 paid additional paid “festive days”.

Private Health Insurance.

Employee Discount Platform.

EAP Service.

Pension Contribution.

Ongoing CPD and clinician development.

A culture that challenges the norm – as a family run business, we know how important a fair, flexible employer that listens and cares is. We are dedicated to continuing to build a culture where people enjoy work, can thrive in their role and are supported from day one.