Be a highly specialist practitioner within the assessment, treatment, and pharmacological management of adults with ADHD and co-morbid mental health and/or neurodiverse difficulties, assuming responsibility for own caseload. Work as an independent and autonomous professional within professional guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work. Coordinate ADHD medication review and titration clinics in conjunction with the medical staff and other non-medical prescribers. Work as a non-medical prescriber (working in line with the Trust Medication Prescribing Policy), undertaking ADHD medication initiations and reviews.
In collaboration with the client/carer, update care and treatment plans. Monitor and assess patients physical health needs within their sphere of competence and provide interventions for these needs. Offer support to parents/carers and clients seeking help between clinic appointments or when in crisis with support from the team. Facilitate ADHD psychoeducation workshops for parents/carers and adults.
Support the development of a Nurse-led ADHD medication clinic. Assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans in conjunction with the adults, caregivers, and other services as appropriate. Formulate mental healthcare and crisis treatment plans that are specific to each adult and carers based upon an analysis of complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes contributing to the presentation. Assess safeguarding issues for each case, consulting with other professionals and referring concerns to the appropriate safeguarding team as required.
Deliver evidence-based treatments, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions drawing on a range of theoretical options. Communicate skilfully, sensitively highly complex, sensitive, and potentially distressing information with adults, carers, and colleagues taking account of sensory and cultural barriers to communication. Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional guidelines, including electronic data entry and recording. Ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up the catchment area of the service.