An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 Children's Specialist Nurse - Neurodevelopment, to join our existing team here at Wirral University Teaching Hospital. The Post Holder Is Required To Be a key member of the multi-disciplinary team involved in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, support and management of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) & ADHD, working in collaboration with the existing Neurodevelopmental specialist nurses. Act as an information and training resource and educator in the care of the child with ASD & ADHD for the multidisciplinary team, schools, statutory and voluntary agencies, children and their families. Manage and coordinate nurse led clinics to share the management of any pharmaceutical interventions as a nurse prescriber adjust drug treatment appropriately working within local agreed guidelines. We are a small team of neurodevelopmental nurses working within Community Paediatrics. We hold nurse led clinics for children and young people who are prescribed medication for their ADHD and sleep difficulties. We currently hold independent nurse led clinics, and see approximately 1 600 young people each per year. We also support the Community paediatricians in the assessment and diagnosis of Autism and ADHD by performing classroom observations and ADOS assessments. We attend monthly management meetings and twice a month training sessions within our service. We receive internal support from clinical supervision held monthly with the ADHD lead consultant paediatrician and informal support from the broader team. The department is based in St Catherine's health centre the community hospital as part of APH women's and children's division. As part of community paediatrics we work closely and well with education, clerical support staff, children's outpatients and community paediatricians. We are encouraged to attend training events to support us in our roles. Each day presents its own challenges and enjoyment working with the young people and their individual and specific needs. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Elaine Mooney Job title: Matron - Children's Outpatient Services Email address: emooney@nhs.net Telephone number: 0151 678 5111 EXT 5788