Highly Specialist CAMHS Practitioner (ADHD Lead and NMP)

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust seeks a Highly Specialist CAMHS Practitioner (ADHD Lead and NMP) to join their Westminster Neurodevelopmental Team. You will provide clinical leadership in ADHD assessments and deliver expert care to young patients. Ideal candidates will have the NMC registration and significant experience in CAMHS, alongside a non-medical prescribing qualification. This role emphasizes patient-centered care, professional development, and support within a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• Professional registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) RMN.
• Significant experience working within a CAMHS team.
• Experience in ADHD assessments and clinics.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist CAMHS service to children and young people with ADHD.
• Conduct comprehensive neurodevelopmental assessments.
• Autonomously manage assessment, treatment, and discharge processes.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Assessment

Non-medical prescribing

Communication

Education

MSc or appropriate level of experience

V300 Non-medical prescribing qualification

Job description

Highly Specialist CAMHS Practitioner (ADHD Lead and NMP)

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Job Overview

This post holder will provide a highly specialist service within CAMHS to young people and their families. This is a community-based post, located within the Westminster CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team, offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessment and treatment. The role will involve clinical leadership, particularly of the ADHD assessment and treatment pathway and will include clinical delivery on an expert level.

Job Overview

This post holder will provide a highly specialist service within CAMHS to young people and their families. This is a community-based post, located within the Westminster CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team, offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessment and treatment. The role will involve clinical leadership, particularly of the ADHD assessment and treatment pathway and will include clinical delivery on an expert level.

They will provide clinical expertise in the field of Neurodiversity and be experienced in assessment, differential and comorbid diagnosis including experience in the administration of relevant standardised ADHD assessment.

The post holder will support the team by managing a delegated caseload of service users that have an established diagnosis and treatment plan for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD).

The post holder will provide review appointments, prescribe medication as necessary and undertake all associated physical and mental health monitoring.

The post holder will have completed a recognised qualification in non-medical prescribing. The post holder will work with the Clinical Team Lead to ensure operational services are effective and will provide frontline leadership to the staff within the ADHD service.

This will include professional and practice development and ensuring high quality client-centred care is delivered.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a highly specialised practitioner and non-medical prescribing service within CAMHS to children, young people with ADHD and leadership of the ADHD team.
• Provide comprehensive specialist CAMHS neurodevelopmental assessments of children and young people with suspected ADHD.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• Provide specialist advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to children and young people’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on risk assessment and risk management.
• As a non-medical nurse prescriber, you will be qualified and have the experience of prescribing a range of medication that is appropriate for the designated patient group including ADHD stimulant, non stimulants as well as sleep aids.
• Provide clinical, management, and performance management through appraisals and supervision, including monitoring and supporting the nursing team with re-validation.
• To take part in the Trust Senior Nurse On call rota providing expert advice and support to the Trust as part of a rotational basis.
• Develop the skills in ADHD team through teaching, training and to provide supervision.
  
  

Working for our organisation

We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care in a community setting or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our young persons, colleagues, teams and the Trust.

To find out more about working in CAMHS please CLICK HERE for one of our CAMHS video.

With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, emotional disorder, neurodevelopmental disorders, enhancement treatment and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see attached candidate information pack for full details about the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) RMN
• MSc or appropriate level of experience
• V300 Non-medical prescribing qualification
• Recent Safeguarding children training
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Research training
• Relevant management training/ qualification
• Post registration training in a treatment modality to diploma/degree standard as a minimum such as CBT
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of working within a CAMHS team
• Experience of ADHD assessments
• Experience of running ADHD clinics
• Experience of prescribing and monitoring of medication.
• Experience of managing and supervising others in a clinical and performance management context including appraisals
• Experience of developing operational protocols and managing duty cover systems
• Experience of leading and developing multi-partnership collaboration arrangements at a senior level
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of developing bespoke training packages for non CAMHS professionals
  
  

Attitude, Aptitude, and Personal Characteristics

Essential criteria

• Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills.
• Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times
• Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working.
• Able to prioritise own workload
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change.
• Conducts self in a professional, courteous manner at all times and able to maintain professionalism in an often emotionally challenging environment
  
  

Core competencies

Essential criteria

• Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and urgent CAMHS assessments
• Understands developmental issues for children and able to assess and adapt interventions accordingly
• Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk.
• Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
• Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice
• Understanding of and commitment to the principles and practices of CYP IAT
• Understands the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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