ADHD Clinical Lead Nurse - Band 7

Lead Meaningful Change for Adults with Neurodevelopmental Needs Across BSW

Join our Learning Disability, Autism and Neurodiversity division and play a central role in shaping a high-quality, needs-led service for adults with Learning Disabilities, Autism and ADHD across Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW). This is your opportunity to make a real, lasting difference to service users at every stage of their neurodevelopmental journey both pre and postdiagnosis.

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist and Non-Medical Prescriber within the BSW Neurodevelopmental Pathway team, you'll be at the forefront of delivering specialist assessment, prescribing, and therapeutic support to adults with ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions, as well as their families. You'll take a leadership role within the ADHD assessment and postdiagnostic pathway, including medicines management, ensuring safe, person-centred and evidence-based care.

You'll also contribute to the development of a single, needs-led neurodevelopmental pathway across the BSW region working collaboratively with HCRG Care Group and BSW ICB LDAN partners to redesign and improve services for the future.

This is a unique opportunity for a skilled clinician to take the lead in transforming neurodevelopmental care across the region, driving innovation, quality and better outcomes for adults with complex needs.

Main duties of the job

• Working closely with the neurodevelopmental pathway team to develop, deliver and monitor needs-led assessment and care for adults and their families.
• Acting as a key member of the ADHD multidisciplinary team, collaborating with clinicians across a range of disciplines.
• Leading preliminary assessments for new referrals across the BSW locality, using agreed tools and gathering information through observation, interviews and structured assessments.
• Prescribing ADHD-related medication as an Advanced Nurse Prescriber, following NMC, NICE and national guidelines.
• Using a Think Family and trauma-informed approach throughout all clinical work.
• Completing comprehensive assessments based on multiple information sources, including psychological measures, rating scales, direct/indirect observations and patient/family interviews.
• Working in line with the NMC Code of Conduct, professional standards and Trust policies.
• Prescribing safely under a Clinical Management Plan, while maintaining up-to-date pharmaceutical knowledge and auditing your prescribing practice.
• Developing and delivering evidence-based treatment plans, including medication and non-pharmacological interventions.
• Making autonomous clinical decisions for the long-term management of adults with ADHD and supporting their families.
• Providing clear communication, support and signposting through face-to-face appointments, virtual clinics and between-appointment advice.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we may need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

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Job responsibilities

As an ADHD Clinical Lead Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in our Learning Disabilities Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £46,148 - £52,809 FTE (Band 7 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

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.