Children's ADHD Nurse Specialist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join an established community paediatrics team as a Children's ADHD Clinical Nurse Specialist, Non-medical prescriber. The post holder must share a passion and commitment to work with children and young people with ADHD, to improve their access to timely assessment and ongoing treatment.

The role entails contributing to pre-diagnostic assessment including psychosocial history and school observations, for children 5-19 years who may have ADHD and/or other co-morbid conditions (e.g. ASD, tics, anxiety, behavioural and conduct difficulties). The role will involve medication support and ongoing medication management including assessment, providing advice and support to families and signposting or providing onward referrals to behavioural support services.

You will also liaise closely with a broad range of disciplines and agencies, including Education, social services, voluntary agencies and primary care.

The primary function of the post will be to contribute to diagnostic assessments of children and young people referred to the service. You will be working autonomously to conduct elements of the assessment, with support from the MDT. You will be responsible for prescribing and review of ADHD medication and managing nurse led clinics, including a clinic to transition young people to adult services.

This is a challenging role that includes offering sensitive support, advice to families, children and young people who have neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD) before, during and after diagnosis. Provide ongoing 1-1 healthcare, behaviour management advice within the post holders expertise.

You will be expected to have an understanding and experience of working with ADHD, but training and support will be provided. You should have a broad knowledge of general mental health conditions. You will be offered opportunities to develop both clinically and professionally within a supportive environment and encouraged to participate in service developments. Clinical supervision and a supported induction period are provided.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.