ADHD Nurse

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust; Broadstairs; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Broadstairs is seeking an experienced ADHD Nurse to join their team focusing on children's mental health. The role involves delivering evidence-based interventions and conducting assessments for emotional difficulties in children and young people. Ideal candidates will have a graduate training in nursing and registration with the NMC. This position offers a salary of £38,682 to £46,580 per year, with both full-time and flexible working options available. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply by 22 December 2025.

Qualifications

• Experience with neurodevelopmental and learning disabilities.
• Ability to undertake initial assessments and deliver early interventions.
• Clinical experience with emotional and psychological difficulties.

Responsibilities

• Measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based interventions.
• Undertake community-based assessments for emotional difficulties.
• Assess and develop care plans for patients.

Skills

Assessment of emotional well-being

Clinical interventions

Experience with children and young people

Team collaboration

Education

Graduate training in nursing

Eligible for professional body registration (NMC)

Job description

Go back NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

ADHD Nurse

The closing date is 22 December 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experience nurse to join our ADHD team in the Canterbury 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 well‑being and mental health difficulties. You will be a highly motivated and innovative individual with clinical experience working with children and young people with emotional well‑being and mental health difficulties.

Main duties of the job

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

About us

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co‑produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT. They are: We are kind. We are respectful. We work together with our communities. These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place 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 also 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.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. High Cost

Job responsibilities

Locality Team in Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Services (CYPMHS)

The aim of CYPMHS is to respond earlier to children and young peoples needs in order to help prevent, reduce or delay the need for more specialist interventions. This transformation of children and young peoples 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 have 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?

• Mood and anxiety disorders
• Behavioural and conduct disorders
• Emerging personality and attachment disorders
• Psychotic disorders
• Deliberate self‑harm and suicidal ideation
• Substance misuse with co‑existing mental health needs (dual diagnosis)
• Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) - with co‑occurring mental health needs
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - with co‑occurring mental health needs
• 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.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points‑based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High‑Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.

Use of AI

Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Successful completion of a graduate training (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy)
• To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC)

Experience

• Experience of working with patients with neurodevelopmental and learning disabilities
• Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi‑disciplinary team
• Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working with patients with neurodevelopmental and learning disabilities
• Experience of working with patients with neurodevelopmental and learning disabilities
• To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body i.e NMC.
• To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body i.e NMC.

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.

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearPer annum - Pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full‑time,Part‑time,Job share,Flexible working