Join Evolve Psychology Services as a Team Manager and take on an impactful leadership role within our Neurodevelopmental Assessment Team at our Exeter clinic.
This is an excellent opportunity for a dedicated clinician to lead a multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality assessments for Autism and ADHD. You will play a pivotal role in shaping service development, clinical quality, and operational effectiveness, while ensuring care is delivered in line with NICE guidelines and best practices.
If you're passionate about collaboration, clinical excellence, and driving service improvement, this role offers the chance to make a real difference in the lives of children, adults, and families across the region.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will manage a diverse team of professionals, ensuring the smooth day-to-day operations and high-quality assessments. Your responsibilities will include overseeing the assessment process, mentoring team members, and implementing improvements to clinic procedures. You'll act as a point of contact for operational matters, track service delivery, and monitor compliance with contracts and KPIs. Additionally, you will identify training needs, support the development of newer team members, and collaborate with senior leadership to enhance our services.
About us
Evolve Psychology Services is an award-winning, NHS and HSE approved practice dedicated to providing high-quality psychological care across the UK and Ireland. Our team is a blend of passionate professionals who thrive in a supportive, collaborative environment. We value ongoing training, professional development, and work-life balance, offering generous leave, clinical supervision, and company events. At Evolve, we foster a culture of respect and excellence, making it an ideal place for you to grow your career while positively impacting the community we serve.
Job responsibilities
About the job
Company Description
Evolve Psychology Services is an award winning, NHS and HSE approved independent psychology and neurodevelopmental practice, founded by Dr Laura Powling. The company provides high-quality services to clients across the UK and Ireland, including neurodevelopmental and psychological assessments for adults and children as well as expert witness assessments for the courts and parole boards, assessments in criminal/prison law, family law, immigration law, and medico-legal cases. We have a proven track record of providing high quality assessments and delivering on NHS contracts.
Role Description
This is an exciting and valuable full-time role for a team manager within a busy service, providing invaluable assessments to families and adults. This is a hybrid role located in our Exeter clinic for a suitably qualified clinician working as a Team Manager within the Evolve Neurodevelopmental Assessment Team for adults and Children referred for Autism and/ or ADHD assessments via NHS Patient choice and their GP.
The role requires managing the team which comprises of psychology, Speech and language therapists, OT, paediatricians and assistant psychologists. It also involves being part of the management team overseeing comprehensive specialist assessments including diagnostic assessments of individuals with suspected Autism and/ or ADHD using established diagnostic tools. Assessments are undertaken on behalf of the NHS via GP referral.
Main responsibilities include:
* Management of the multidisciplinary team
* Being a point of contact for all matters related to the day to day running of the local service
* Being familiar with all the resources (e.g. questionnaires)/ components (e.g. cognitive assessment) that support the assessment process and guiding other clinicians
* Monitoring contract mobilisation and service delivery
* Oversight locally of company strategy
* Monitoring of contract and local KPI's
* Clinical governance
* Have a clinical overview of all the current assessment cases in the clinic, ensuring each case is led by a particular clinician, that there is a clear plan for each, that there is no drift.
* Problem-solving issues in a clinic (e.g. clinician sickness/ reallocation of cases/ redistributing time)
* Supporting newer members of the team to make transition into the work/ support development of skills/ offering support where needed
* Identifying issues in the clinic processes that may need improvement and working with senior leadership/ management to work to resolve; developing new resources that will support and enhance the clinics
* Escalating issues and working with senior leadership/ management to resolve
* Attending company events and management meetings
* Identifying training needs/ topics for teams and individuals and signposting/ discussing with senior leadership/ management.
Qualifications
* HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist, Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist or
* Neurodevelopmental practitioner experience with specialist training as below
* Must be eligible to work in the UK
* Experience in conducting diagnostic Neurodevelopmental/ Specialist developmental assessments with children and/ or adults
* Experience working with children and/ or adults with neurodevelopmental disorders or mental health difficulties in a clinical setting
* Knowledge of DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and appropriate assessment tools for Autism and ADHD
* Knowledge of differential diagnosis
* ADOS-2/ ADI-R trained
* Ideally QB Trained
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
* Experience of team and service management
* Pension
* Generous Annual Leave allowance
* Full ongoing training and clinical supervision
* Birthday day of/ day in lieu
* Company benefits and discounts
* Company events
* Ongoing training and CPD
* Clinical Supervision integral to the role
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of team and service management.
* Knowledge of DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and appropriate assessment tools for Autism and ADHD.
* Knowledge of differential diagnosis.
* Experience in conducting diagnostic Neurodevelopmental/ Specialist developmental assessments with children and/ or adults.
* Experience working with children and/ or adults with neurodevelopmental disorders or mental health difficulties in a clinical setting.
additional criteria
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
* Must be able to work from the Exeter clinic in a hybrid setting.
* Must be eligible to work in the UK
Qualifications
* HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist, Speech and Language Therapist, Occupational Therapist or NMC registered nurse
* QB Trained
* ADOS-2/ ADI-R trained
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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