Highly Specialist ADHD Nurse Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

-Clinically, the post holder will lead a highly specialist service for children and young people with ADHD and co-morbid mental health difficulties, contributing to specialist assessment & management and leading on co- ordinating the Nurse-led medication review clinics within the service, including independent non-medical prescribing.

-To manage a caseload, providing the analysis of complex information to determine the planning and management of assessment and treatment to C&YP with ADHD and comorbid mental health and neuropsychiatric difficulties.

-To provide expertise in this highly specialist clinical area and to offer advice and consultation on clients care to other members of the team, in relation to the area of expertise.

-To offer training in assessment and interventions for CYP with ADHD to CAMHS and other professional networks.

-To liaise with medical colleague, partner agencies and adult mental health professionals across a range of settings.

-To work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and Trust guidelines. -To contribute to policy and service development, undertake research, service evaluation and audit for own team/service and to contribute to the training of the clinical team and others.

-To work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.

-Communications and Working Relationships:

Team manager, Consultant staff, Team members administrators, professionals and other agencies working with children and their families in health, education, social services and the voluntary sector, members of relevant profession networks;

Medical staff at CUH IoP team Borough manager Other SLaM Staff and professionals working with the child including the GP Trust named nurse for Safeguarding Researchers/

Educators, Trainers

As necessary Lead Clinician and Head of Nursing

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• First level nursing qualification (registration RMN or RSCN or HV) / with related CAMHS experience and MSc level qualification or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio of post-registration professional development in child and adolescent mental health including evidence of clinical, audit and/or research presentations at local and national CAMHS events and evidence of publication of articles or the production of strategic reports which have advanced CAMHS.
• Non-medical prescriber with appropriate NMC registration
• All applications will require professional registration with a statutory body e.g. the Nursing Midwifery Council, General Social care council, Health professional's council or applicable psychological or psychotherapies body.

Desirable

• Additional, recognised therapeutic qualification

Experience

Essential

• Graduate qualification related to or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio including experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment with children and young people with mental health difficulties, emotional, behavioural and relational problems and their families, including looked after children.
• Experience of managing complex and high risk cases.
• Experience of consultation to, and clinical supervision of other staff
• Experience of providing teaching and training to multidisciplinary groups. Experience of working with children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Experience of developing and carrying out research projects with children and young people.
• Experience of supervision of other staff. Experience of clinical leadership and providing clinical support for practitioners across disciplines including recruitment, supervision and appraisal.
• Experience of multi-agency collaboration and integrated working.

Desirable

• Significant experience working as an independent non-medical prescriber with a CAMHS service and ability to demonstrate continuing professional development in this area.

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Has completed a minimum of two years post qualification CPD to develop clinical and/or research skills relevant to specialist area as agreed in the Personal Development Plan.
• Ability to supervise student nurses having completed 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 maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems involving a child's or young person's mental health issues, family relationships or future placement, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Ability to work independently as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and/or challenging behaviour.
• Ability to use QI methodology
• Well developed IT skills including data entry and analysis of research
• Well-developed consultation skills to work with MDT and or other professional groups

Desirable

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southwark CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service

Sunshine House, 27 Peckham Rd, SE5 8UH

London

SE5 8UH

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)