Remote ADHD Nurse

• Provide clinical care and management for patients with ADHD and co-occurring neurodiverse/mental health difficulties
• Prescribe medication and manage treatment plans
• Lead and support the ADHD service team
• Ensure high standards of patient care and safety
• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals and stakeholders
• Participate in continuous professional development and training
• Clinically, the post holder will work as an ADHD nurse prescriber and manage a highly specialist service for adults with ADHD and co-occurring neurodiverse/mental health difficulties, contributing to specialist assessment & management and leading on coordinating the ADHD medication review clinics
• Ensure access and flow are prioritized while maintaining own caseload
• Manage a caseload, providing the analysis of complex information to determine the planning and management of assessment and treatment to adults with ADHD and co-occurring neurodiverse/mental health difficulties
• Liaise with medical colleagues, partner agencies, and adult mental health professionals across a range of settings
• Work autonomously within professional practice guidelines
• Contribute to policy and service development, undertake research, service evaluation, and audit for own team/service, and contribute to the training of the clinical team and others
• Work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Be a highly specialist practitioner within the assessment, treatment, and pharmacological management of adults with ADHD and co-morbid mental health and/or neurodiverse difficulties, assuming responsibility for own caseload
• Work as an independent and autonomous professional within professional guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work
• Coordinate ADHD medication review and titration clinics in conjunction with the medical staff and other non-medical prescribers
• Work as a non-medical prescriber (working in line with the Trust Medication Prescribing Policy), undertaking ADHD medication initiations and reviews
• In collaboration with the client/carer, update care and treatment plans
• Monitor and assess patients physical health needs within their sphere of competence and provide interventions for these needs
• Offer support to parents/carers and clients seeking help between clinic appointments or when in crisis with support from the team
• Facilitate ADHD psychoeducation workshops for parents/carers and adults
• Support the development of a Nurse-led ADHD medication clinic
• Assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans in conjunction with the adults, caregivers, and other services as appropriate
• Formulate mental healthcare and crisis treatment plans that are specific to each adult and carers based upon an analysis of complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes contributing to the presentation
• Assess safeguarding issues for each case, consulting with other professionals and referring concerns to the appropriate safeguarding team as required
• Deliver evidence-based treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions drawing on a range of theoretical options
• Communicate skilfully, sensitively highly complex, sensitive, and potentially distressing information with adults, carers, and colleagues taking account of sensory and cultural barriers to communication
• Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional guidelines, including electronic data entry and recording
• Ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up the catchment area of the service

• First level nursing qualification (registration RMN or RSCN or HV) with related CAMHS experience
• Non-medical prescriber with appropriate NMC registration
• Professional registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council
• Experience working as an independent non-medical prescriber with an adult ADHD service and ability to demonstrate continuing professional development in this area
• Experience of clinical leadership and providing clinical support for practitioners across disciplines including recruitment, supervision, and appraisal
• Experience of adult mental health assessment and ADHD assessments
• Experience of consultation to, and clinical supervision of, other staff
• Significant experience working as an independent non-medical prescriber with a community mental health service and ability to demonstrate continuing professional development in this area
• Experience of using QI methodology
• Highly specialist knowledge of mental health disorders including emotional and behavioural disorders, relationship difficulties, and attachment disorders and theories of child development
• Awareness of racial and diversity issues and their impact on service access, through attendance of relevant training
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, highly technical, and sensitive information to children, young people, families, and colleagues
• Ability to work independently as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision
• Ability to teach and train others, using a range of technology
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles
• Applicants must have current UK professional registration
• 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

MSc level qualification or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio of post-registration professional development in child and adolescent mental health