Overview
We are seeking to recruit a CAMHS Non-Medical Nurse Prescriber with excellent clinical skills and a strong interest in working with neurodivergent children and their families. This is a 12-month fixed term post within the Croydon CAMHS ADHD Service. The post holder will support in leading a highly specialist service for children and young people with ADHD, with co-occurring neurodivergence and/or mental health difficulties. They will also be expected to contribute to specialist assessments and treatment plans. This involves co-ordinating medication review clinics and includes undertaking non-medical prescribing. Alongside this, they will be expected to use their expertise to offer advice and consultation to other members of the team as well as offering training in assessments and interventions to the wider Croydon CAMHS service and other professional networks.
Please note vacancy will be closed early once vacancy has reached capacity.
Responsibilities
* Provide leadership and management support to the ADHD medication review team to ensure access and flow are prioritised while maintaining own caseload.
* Manage a caseload, providing the analysis of complex information to determine the planning and management of assessment and treatment to children and young people with ADHD and co-occurring neurodiverse/mental health difficulties.
* Undertake assessments, including ADHD assessments.
* Provide psychoeducation information sessions/groups.
* Offer expert advice and consultation on clients’ care to other members of the service; provide training in assessment and interventions for CYP with ADHD to CAMHS and other professional networks.
* Liaise with medical colleagues, partner agencies and adult mental health professionals across a range of settings.
* Work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and Trust guidelines.
* Contribute to policy and service development, undertake research, service evaluation and audit for own team/service and contribute to the training of the clinical team and others.
* Work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
Croydon Child and Adolescent Service (CAMHS) provides a multidisciplinary assessment, diagnostic, treatment, advisory and consultative service for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural difficulties, in particular those with moderate to severe mental health presentations. The Croydon CAMHS ADHD Service is a small but efficient team providing ADHD medication reviews to children and young people up to the age of 18, and supporting other teams with ADHD medication titration and providing psychoeducation groups.
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.
Please see attached Job Description for further details but main responsibilities will fall under the below headings: Clinical; Professional Leadership; Supervision, Teaching and Training; Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development; Postholder will also support with Students as Practice Assessor / Mentor. The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, welcoming applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice; ensuring that all our services and staff understand and support our commitment; and treating people who use our services, their carers and our staff with compassion, respect and dignity.
Application notes
Please note: All applications for this post will need to be made online. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria. The closing date listed is a guide only and the vacancy may close earlier if sufficient applications are received. If you have submitted your application, you agree to your information being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system (apps.trac.jobs). If you have not heard from us within three weeks from the closing date, your application has not been successful. Priority consideration may be given to at-risk NHS employees. If successful and appointed, you authorize South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer process. We are a smoke-free Trust. SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
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