Psychologist/Nurse/Allied Health Professional Adult ADHD Team

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in London seeks a qualified Practitioner Psychologist to join their new Adult ADHD team. The successful candidate will conduct assessments and support multidisciplinary work, enhancing services for adults with ADHD. A commitment to professional development and experience working with neurodiverse individuals are essential. The role offers opportunities for training and mentorship in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working programme

Access to specialist training

Supervision and mentorship

Qualifications

• Proven experience in ADHD assessments and interventions.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.
• Enthusiastic about improving services for adults with ADHD.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive ADHD assessments and maintain clinical records.
• Support and educate service users and their families.
• Supervise and mentor junior colleagues and students.

Skills

Experience with neurodiverse individuals

Knowledge of autism assessments

Communication skills

Education

Relevant professional qualification

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

About the role

Are you a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, or Nurse with a keen interest in neurodiversity, and a willingness and desire to progress in your career? Our Adult ADHD team, providing assessment and pre- and post-diagnostic support to adults across North West London, is seeking a new team member to join this exciting new service. This is an opportunity to help shape and develop the future of the team and to work as part of a growing and developing service.

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 in healthcare settings.

As a practitioner psychologist, nurse or Allied Health Professional within the Adult ADHD team, you will be responsible for contributing to multidisciplinary screening ADHD assessments as well as pre- and post-diagnostic support. We will enable you to develop expertise in assessments and interventions, alongside drawing on your skills and knowledge of autism to contribute to assessment and pre- and post-diagnostic support.

Our ideal candidate has experience of working with neurodiverse individuals and is enthusiastic about improving services for adults with or suspected ADHD across North West London. We can also offer training in diagnostic tools if you do not already have this, and access to clinical and professional supervision to develop your clinical skills to work with autistic people.

About the Trust

CNWL is a major provider of Community and Mental health services across the South East of England. We employ approximately 7,500 staff who provide more than 300 different health and social care services across 150 sites and a number of other community settings.

Our Vision

The trust vision is Wellbeing for life. We work in partnership with all who use our services to improve health and wellbeing, and this is not different within our ADHD programme with work to embed peer support and co-development as the cornerstone of the service we develop. We are implementing a scheme to ensure that we are offering work opportunities to those from our non-diverse communities.

What we offer

We offer a flexible working programme and believe that we need to support you both at work and at home to deliver the best health care we can. We will support you to develop your skills and invest in you; you will have an opportunity to access specialist training, supervision and mentorship that will help you progress in your career.

About our team

You will be joining a new and evolving team that already has highly skilled and experienced staff who can provide a safe and supportive place for you to develop and to support the service users we work with. This is an AHP-led service with a senior management team made up of skilled and experienced OTs, SLTs and Psychologists.

Job Summary

• To work as a qualified band 7 practitioner psychologist/Allied Health Professional/Nurse within the multidisciplinary Adult ADHD Service
• To be an autonomous practitioner assessing service users, defining needs in relation to and carrying out autism assessments, and maintaining clinical records
• To be practice guided and supported by senior staff within the clinical area when necessary
• To be responsible for own continuous professional development; build on previous experience enabling further development of clinical, administrative and leadership competencies
• To supervise and support more junior colleagues
• To be involved in service audit projects
• To attend relevant departmental meetings and in-service training opportunities

Role Responsibilities

• Working relationships and communication requirements of your job –
• To provide specialised and comprehensive ADHD assessments for service users who may have needs including complex physical, psychological and sensory impairment, potentially presenting with distress, mental health issues and/or behaviours that challenge
• To work flexibly as needed to support the multidisciplinary team
• To educate and advise service users, their families and carers, and staff teams about the person’s difficulties and needs, and work collaboratively to develop suitable management plans
• To be an active member of the multidisciplinary team working collaboratively with other members of the team and recognising the skills and expertise of others
• To be proactive in personal professional development
• To provide support and supervision to more junior colleagues, assistants and students
• To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time
• To maintain clinical records as an autonomous practitioner
• The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager
• The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Service and the Organisation

This advert closes on Monday 13 Oct 2025