A multidisciplinary team, focused on neurodevelopmental care
MACC brings together experienced clinicians and safeguarding, quality and governance leads to deliver safe, person-centred ADHD and Autism (ASD) pathways.
How we work as a team
At MACC, care is delivered through a multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach. Assessments, clinical decisions, and treatment plans are never made in isolation. Our clinicians have access to structured MDT case discussion, clinical supervision, and clear escalation pathways, ensuring safe, consistent, and high-quality care.
Our MDT brings together a wide range of professional expertise, allowing us to consider the whole person and their needs across health, education, and daily life — not just a single diagnosis.
Our Roles Include:
- Clinical leadership, providing overall service direction and governance
- Medical leadership, offering oversight of complex clinical cases
- Advanced Nurse Practitioners, leading assessment, prescribing, and care pathways
- Allied Health Professionals, supporting communication, learning, and functional assessment
- Safeguarding and risk leads, ensuring patient safety at every stage
- Information governance and data protection leads, maintaining confidentiality and data security
Through regular MDT collaboration, we ensure care is evidence-based, coordinated, and compassionate, with clear communication across all parts of the service.
Leadership & clinical role
Clinical Leadership Team
Our clinical leadership team is responsible for setting the standards, values, and direction of care across MACC. They ensure our services are safe, evidence-based, and shaped by both clinical expertise and lived experience of neurodivergence.
This team supports clinicians through supervision, guidance, and shared decision-making, helping to ensure that every assessment and care plan reflects best practice and genuine compassion.
Medical & Specialist Consultants
MACC works with experienced consultant specialists, including paediatric and psychiatrist consultants, who provide expert input where needed. These consultants support complex assessments, advise on co-occurring mental health needs, and guide safe medication decision-making.
Their involvement strengthens our multidisciplinary approach and ensures that patients benefit from specialist expertise without fragmented care.
Our Multidisciplinary Clinical Team
Our wider team brings together professionals from nursing, pharmacy, psychology, counselling, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, and specialist learning-difficulty assessment.
Working together as a multidisciplinary team (MDT), we look beyond diagnosis alone — focusing on practical support, wellbeing, and real-world outcomes for individuals and families. This collaborative approach allows us to tailor care to each person’s needs, strengths, and circumstances.
Quality, safeguarding & governance
Quality & Risk Lead
Responsible for:
- Maintaining the clinical risk register and associated action plans
- Coordinating audits of assessments, reports and documentation quality
- Overseeing incident reporting, review and learning processes
- Supporting continuous improvement activities and quality initiatives
Works closely with clinical and operational leads to ensure systems are safe, consistent and documented.
Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)
Provides leadership and advice in relation to safeguarding children, young people and adults, including:
- Developing and updating safeguarding policies and procedures
- Providing advice and support to staff where safeguarding concerns arise
- Liaising with local safeguarding partners and agencies as needed
- Coordinating safeguarding training and supervision
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Supports the DSL and provides cover, helping to:
- Offer day-to-day safeguarding advice to clinicians
- Ensure safeguarding concerns are logged, escalated and followed up
- Maintain records and contribute to safeguarding audits and reviews
Caldicott Guardian / Information Governance Lead
Oversees how patient information is used and protected, including:
- Ensuring that information sharing is lawful, necessary and proportionate
- Supporting decisions about complex information-sharing scenarios
- Promoting best practice in confidentiality and data protection
- Working with operational teams on data security and records management
Allied Health & Specialist Team
Our allied health and specialist clinicians are central to MACC’s multidisciplinary team (MDT), helping us build a detailed understanding of each individual’s learning, communication, emotional, and functional needs.
Speech and Language Therapy
Speech and Language Therapists support assessment and care by:
- Exploring communication, language, and social communication profiles
- Supporting understanding of autistic profiles in children, young people, and adults
- Providing practical, strengths-based recommendations for home, education, and work settings
- Contributing to guidance and resources for families, schools, and professionals
Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD) Specialists
Our Specialist SpLD Assessors support assessment and post-diagnostic understanding for individuals with:
- Dyslexia
- Other learning-related processing differences
They provide clear assessment findings and recommendations to support education, training, workplace adjustments, and everyday functioning.
Additional Specialist Roles
Depending on individual needs and service pathways, care may also be supported by clinicians with expertise in:
- Psychology and psychological therapies, including CBT
- Nursing, including mental health and learning disability backgrounds
- Occupational Therapy, focusing on sensory processing, daily living, and executive functioning
- Pharmacists, supporting safe medication use and monitoring
- Assistant practitioners or clinical associates, supporting care delivery under supervision
All clinicians work within their professional scope of practice, with access to clinical supervision, MDT discussion, and clear escalation pathways, ensuring care is safe, coordinated, and person-centred.
Training, supervision & development
We expect all clinicians to:
- Complete a structured induction and shadowing period
- Demonstrate competency in core assessment skills before independent practice
- Participate in regular clinical supervision and case discussion
- Attend updates and training relevant to ADHD, Autism, safeguarding, risk and information governance
We view supervision and reflective practice as essential to safe, sustainable care, rather than optional extras.
How we involve patients & families
Where appropriate and with consent, we invite feedback from patients and families about:
- Clarity of assessments and reports
- Usefulness of recommendations
- Experience of remote appointments
- Ideas for improving communication and processes