ADHD Nurse

North East London NHS; Broadstairs; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits an experienced nurse to join a dedicated ADHD team within a forward-thinking mental health service. This role involves delivering evidence-based psychological interventions and supporting children and young people facing emotional and mental health challenges. The service is committed to improving access to care and provides a collaborative environment focused on the wellbeing of young individuals. Join a team that values innovation and clinical excellence, and play a vital role in transforming mental health services for the youth in the community. If you are passionate about making a difference in young lives, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering evidence-based psychological interventions.
• Ability to assess and develop care plans for children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Measure clinical outcomes and deliver interventions for emotional wellbeing.
• Conduct assessments and provide early interventions in schools.

Skills

Clinical experience with children

Evidence-based interventions

Assessment skills

Care planning

Education

Nursing qualification

Specialization in mental health

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to join our ADHD team in the Thanet Children and Young People's Mental Health Service.

Driven by the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies), the service provides the latest in evidence-based NICE compliant psychological interventions to children, young people and their families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties. You will be a highly motivated and innovative individual with clinical experience working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.

You will:

1. Routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions in line with promoting the mental and emotional health of children, young people, and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway.
2. Undertake initial school-based and community-based assessments and deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties where appropriate.
3. Assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions.

About NELFT’s Children & Young People’s Mental Health Services (CYPMHS):

NELFT’s CYPMHS is for anybody aged between 0-18, living in Kent, and is free at the point of entry. The service is also for young people with special educational needs (SEN) up to the age of 25. The CAMHS Tier II and Tier III services no longer exist, replaced with an integrated CYPMHS.

Structure of Children & Young People’s Mental Health Services (CYPMHS):

There is one Children’s Single Point of Access (SPA), a Neurodevelopmental & Learning Disabilities Service, six Locality Teams, and a Crisis Team. These are located across North Kent (Dartford), West Kent (Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells), South Kent (Folkestone & Dover), East Kent (Thanet), Swale, Ashford, and Canterbury and Coastal.

Probationary Period:

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently partway through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT:

NELFT places a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training, and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing, and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Use of AI:

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Locality Team in Children & Young People’s Mental Health Services (CYPMHS):

The aim of CYPMHS is to respond earlier to children and young people’s needs in order to help prevent, reduce, or delay the need for more specialist interventions. This transformation of children and young people’s mental health services has a clinical focus, integrated with local authorities to deliver a long-term collaborative approach to planning and delivering services.

CYPMHS focuses on emotional wellbeing as well as mental health and includes access to self-help tools and services based in schools and the community.

Each locality team has care pathways. Each care pathway is clinically led, with care pathway leads operationally managing all CYPMHS practitioners working in that care pathway. With the support of the team manager, care pathway leads are responsible for assessment, treatment, and systematic outcome measurement in that care pathway. CYPMHS multi-disciplinary pathway workers and mental health workers may work across more than one care pathway in a locality team.

Care pathways include: Mood and anxiety, Early Help, Complex Behavioural and conduct, Neurodevelopmental & Learning Disability.

What difficulties can be referred to the service?

1. Mood and anxiety disorders
2. Behavioural and conduct disorders
3. Emerging personality and attachment disorders
4. Psychotic disorders
5. Deliberate self-harm and suicidal ideation
6. Substance misuse with co-existing mental health needs (dual diagnosis)
7. Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) - with co-occurring mental health needs
8. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - with co-occurring mental health needs
9. Neurodevelopmental disorders
10. Prolonged bereavement problems

All referrals to the service are assessed using a care pathways approach, developed in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance criteria (NICE) and based on a best practice model of treatment.

If you are an overseas qualified nurse and want to start your journey to becoming a UK-based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium. Please visit: Capital Nurse London. While NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses, we are unable to consider your application directly. You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.

Although we are a registered sponsor organization, we are unable to offer sponsorship for some job roles, and this will be identified through filtering questions at the start of any job application on the Trac recruitment system.