CAMHS ADHD Nurse Advanced Practitioner

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Croydon; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare institution in Croydon is seeking a CAMHS ADHD Nurse Advanced Practitioner to lead a team specializing in ADHD services for children and young people. The ideal candidate will have advanced clinical skills and experience as an independent non-medical prescriber. Responsibilities include managing medication reviews, conducting assessments, and providing consultancy and training within a multidisciplinary team. This is a fixed-term position offering a salary of £61,631 to £68,623 per annum.

Qualifications

• First level nursing qualification (registration RMN or RSCN or HV) with related CAMHS experience.
• Non-medical prescriber with appropriate NMC registration.
• Experience working as an independent non-medical prescriber with a CAMHS service.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and management support to the ADHD medication review team.
• Manage a caseload, analyzing complex information for ADHD assessment and treatment.
• Conduct psychiatric assessments and provide psychoeducational sessions.

Skills

Clinical skills

Experience with neurodivergent children

Leadership capabilities

Non-medical prescribing

Education

First level nursing qualification with CAMHS experience

Non-medical prescriber with appropriate NMC registration

MSc level qualification or equivalent

Job description

CAMHS ADHD Nurse Advanced Practitioner

The closing date is 26 October 2025.

We are seeking to recruit a CAMHS Non-Medical Nurse Prescriber with excellent clinical skills and a strong interest in working with neurodivergent children and their families.

This is a 12-month fixed term post within the Croydon CAMHS ADHD Service.

The post holder will support in leading a highly specialist service for children and young people with ADHD, with co-occurring neurodivergence and/or mental health difficulties. They will also be expected to contribute to specialist assessments and treatment plans. This involves co-ordinating medication review clinics and includes undertaking non-medical prescribing.

Alongside this, they will be expected to use their expertise to offer advice and consultation to other members of the team as well as offering training in assessments and interventions to the wider Croydon CAMHS service, and other professional networks.

Please note vacancy will be closed early once vacancy has reached capacity.

Main duties of the job

• To provide leadership and management support to the ADHD medication review team to ensure access and flow are prioritised while maintaining own caseload.
• 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 co-occurring neurodiverse/mental health difficulties.
• To undertake assessments, including ADHD assessments
• To provide psychoeducation information sessions/groups.
• To provide expertise in this highly specialist clinical area and to offer advice and consultation on clients care to other members of the service. To offer training in assessment and interventions for CYP with ADHD to CAMHS and other professional networks.
• To liaise with medical colleagues, 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.

About us

Croydon Child and Adolescent Service (CAMHS) provides a multidisciplinary assessment, diagnostic, treatment, advisory and consultative service for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural difficulties, in particular those with moderate to severe mental health presentations.

The Croydon CAMHS ADHD Service is a small but efficient team providing ADHD medication reviews to children and young people up to the age of 18, and supporting other teams with ADHD medication titration and providing psychoeducation groups.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for further details but main responsibilities will fall under the below headings:

• Clinical
• Professional Leadership
• Supervision, Teaching and Training
• Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
• Postholder will also support with Students as Practice Assessor / Mentor

Person Specification

Qualifications

• First level nursing qualification (registration RMN or RSCN or HV) / with related CAMHS experience
• Non-medical prescriber with appropriate NMC registration
• Experience working as an independent non-medical prescriber with a CAMHS service and ability to demonstrate continuing professional development in this area.
• All applications will require professional registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council
• Additional, recognised therapeutic qualification.
• MSc level qualification or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio of post-registration professional development in child and adolescent mental health

Experience

• Experience of CAMHS assessment and ADHD assessments
• Experience of managing complex and high-risk cases
• Experience of consultation to, and clinical supervision of, other staff.
• Significant experience working as an independent non-medical prescriber with a CAMHS service and ability to demonstrate continuing professional development in this area.

Knowledge and Skills

• Highly specialist knowledge of childhood disorders including emotional and behavioural disorders, relationship difficulties and attachment disorders and theories of child development.
• Ability to work independently as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
• Awareness of racial and diversity issues and their impact on service access, through attendance of relevant training.
• Post graduate level knowledge of CAMHS research methodology and complex statistical analysis.

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.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

£61,631 to £68,623 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS