Band 7 ADHD Clinical Lead (Nurse)

HCRG Care Group; Swindon; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent health provider in the UK is seeking a passionate Clinical Lead Nurse (Non-Medical Prescriber) to lead ADHD services in Swindon. The role focuses on delivering high-quality care and support for adults with neurodevelopmental disorders. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, experience in mental health, and the ability to collaborate effectively within a multidisciplinary team. Join us to transform health and care for our communities.

Benefits

Competitive salary: £46,148 - 52,809

NHS Pension

Discounts through My Reward Hub

Access to wages as you earn

Wellbeing support services

Bespoke career pathways and CPD opportunities

Qualifications

• Experienced in mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong knowledge of ADHD and associated treatments.

Responsibilities

• Lead assessments for ADHD and support care delivery.
• Prescribe ADHD-related medications safely and effectively.
• Contribute to the development of a person-centred care pathway.

Skills

Leadership

Assessment skills

Advanced Nurse Prescriber

Collaborative teamwork

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Tools

NMC guidelines

Psychological assessment tools

Job description

We are seeking a passionate and experienced Clinical Lead Nurse (Non-Medical Prescriber) to join our dynamic team, providing high-quality, needs-led care to adults with ADHD and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The successful candidate will play a key leadership role in the delivery of the ADHD assessment pathway and post-diagnostic support services across the BSW region, helping us to design and implement an integrated, person-centred neurodevelopmental pathway.

As the ADHD Clinical Lead Nurse, you will work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team to provide specialist assessment, treatment, and management for adults with ADHD, while ensuring the continuous development and support of the team. You will also lead the operational management of the ADHD services, supporting medicines management, prescribing, and ensuring the highest standard of care for individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions.

The Learning Disability, Autism, and Neurodiversity (LDAN) division provides comprehensive services for adults with learning disabilities, autism, and other neurodiverse conditions across Bath and Northeast Somerset (BaNES), Swindon, and Wiltshire (BSW). Our team works across the entire neurodevelopmental pathway, from assessment and diagnosis to post-diagnostic support, to improve the care and well‑being of adults with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Main duties of the job

• Work closely with the members of the neurodevelopmental pathway team in developing, implementing, and monitoring needs‑led assessment and care
• Be a key member of the ADHD multidisciplinary team, working collaboratively with clinician colleagues from a range of disciplines.
• Work autonomously across BSW locality, taking the lead in preliminary assessments of new referrals using the agreed assessment tools and analysis of the resulting information. Undertake and record observations within a range of settings if required.
• Act as an Advanced Nurse Prescriber for ADHD related medicines, in line with NMC, NICE and national guidelines.
• Work closely with patients, families, and the multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive inclusive and expert assessment of service users referred with symptoms and comorbidities based upon appropriate use, interpretation, and integrations of complex data from a variety of sources, including psychological assessments, self‑report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations as well as interviews with the service user
• Work in line with the NMC Code of Conduct, NMC Standards and Proficiencies and Trust guidelines.
• Prescribe effectively and safely under a Clinical Management Plan, acknowledging own limitations and scope of practice.
• Maintain relevant pharmaceutical knowledge, critically appraise, and apply information in practice.

For a full list of role responsibilities please refer to attached job description.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident and Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we may need to close it earlier than the date we have shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we would love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

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Job responsibilities

As an ADHD Clinical Lead Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our Learning Disabilities Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £46,148 - 52,809 (Band 7 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face‑to‑face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Person Specification

General Requirements

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.