Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS Community -ADHD
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-NUR-7462409-LF-A
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Southwark CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Service
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 per annum HCAS inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist ADHD Nurse Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 8a
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
Southwark CAMHS are looking to recruit to our community CAMHS service:
- An experienced and motivated highly specialist ADHD Nurse Prescriber to lead on the ADHD pathway in our community
- Independent and team working in both a clinical and managerial role.
- Confident in your delivery of ADHD care including ADHD medication management and physical health assessments.
- Excellent skills in organisation and forward thinking, show initiative, be adaptable and able to follow direction, and be a good team player with excellent communication skills.
- Provide leadership on and contribute clinically to all aspects of the ADHD pathway including screening, assessment, psycho-education, medication management, behavioural management, care planning, risk assessment and management, and transition to adult services
Main duties of the job
- Managing your own caseload of C&YP with ADHD, including more complex cases involving comorbid mental health and neuropsychiatric difficulties
- Independent treatment initiation and review within your scope of practice. This involves assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating intervention(s) for young people in your care, including independent non-medical prescribing.
- Liaising with medical colleagues, partner agencies (school; social care) and adult mental health professionals across a range of settings
- Completing risk assessments and care plans
- To work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and Trust guidelines
- Managerial and leadership responsibilities
Working for our organisation
than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
We have the most comprehensive range of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in the United Kingdom with a budget of approximately £47 million. Our services are renowned nationally and internationally, with clinical practice that thrives on our close links with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London and the Medical Research Council Child Psychiatry Unit.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Purpose:
-Clinically, the post holder will lead a highly specialist service for children and young people with ADHD and co-morbid mental health difficulties, contributing to specialist assessment & management and leading on co- ordinating the Nurse-led medication review clinics within the service, including independent non-medical prescribing.
-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 comorbid mental health and neuropsychiatric difficulties.
-To provide expertise in this highly specialist clinical area and to offer advice and consultation on clients care to other members of the team, in relation to the area of expertise.
-To offer training in assessment and interventions for CYP with ADHD to CAMHS and other professional networks.
-To liaise with medical colleague, 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.
-Communications and Working Relationships:
Team manager, Consultant staff, Team members administrators, professionals and other agencies working with children and their families in health, education, social services and the voluntary sector, members of relevant profession networks;
Medical staff at CUH IoP team Borough manager Other SLaM Staff and professionals working with the child including the GP Trust named nurse for Safeguarding Researchers/
Educators, Trainers
As necessary Lead Clinician and Head of Nursing
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level nursing qualification (registration RMN or RSCN or HV) / with related CAMHS experience and MSc level qualification or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio of post-registration professional development in child and adolescent mental health including evidence of clinical, audit and/or research presentations at local and national CAMHS events and evidence of publication of articles or the production of strategic reports which have advanced CAMHS.
- Non-medical prescriber with appropriate NMC registration
- All applications will require professional registration with a statutory body e.g. the Nursing Midwifery Council, General Social care council, Health professional's council or applicable psychological or psychotherapies body.
Desirable criteria
- Additional, recognised therapeutic qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Graduate qualification related to or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio including experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment with children and young people with mental health difficulties, emotional, behavioural and relational problems and their families, including looked after children.
- Experience of managing complex and high risk cases.
- Experience of consultation to, and clinical supervision of other staff
- Experience of providing teaching and training to multidisciplinary groups. Experience of working with children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds.
- Experience of developing and carrying out research projects with children and young people.
- Experience of supervision of other staff. Experience of clinical leadership and providing clinical support for practitioners across disciplines including recruitment, supervision and appraisal.
- Experience of multi-agency collaboration and integrated working.
Desirable criteria
- Significant experience working as an independent non-medical prescriber with a CAMHS service and ability to demonstrate continuing professional development in this area.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Has completed a minimum of two years post qualification CPD to develop clinical and/or research skills relevant to specialist area as agreed in the Personal Development Plan.
- Ability to supervise student nurses having completed relevant training.
- Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, highly technical and sensitive information to children, young people, families and colleagues.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems involving a child’s or young person’s mental health issues, family relationships or future placement, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Ability to work independently as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision.
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and/or challenging behaviour.
- Ability to use QI methodology
- Well developed IT skills including data entry and analysis of research
- Well-developed consultation skills to work with MDT and or other professional groups
Desirable criteria
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nathan Appasamy
- Job title
- Clinical Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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