We have an opportunity for an experienced Specialist ADHD Nurse to join our growing team in the BSW area, based in Swindon:
The postholder will be part of the BSW neurodevelopmental pathway team (ASD/ADHD) aimed at improving the care of adult service users with Neurodevelopmental disorders across the BSW locality, both pre and post diagnosis. The post holder will take a leadership role in the delivery of a high-quality needs-led service promoting and improving the mental health and well-being of service users.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist is a Non-Medical Prescriber who will work within the Neurodevelopmental team specifically to provide assessment and specialist support to adults with a diagnosis of ADHD and other neurodevelopmental disorders, and their families.
They will independently prescribe medications for ADHD under agreed service protocols and in accordance with local and NICE guidelines (NG87) and the principles of prescribing set out in the Competency Framework for all Prescribers (Royal Pharmaceutical Society 2016).
Main Responsibility
A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
Registered Nurse BSc (Hons) Level 1 RGN or Equivalent
Evidence of continuous professional development within the last two years
Independent/ Supplementary prescriber (V300) to prescribe medication for ADHD diagnosed patients on team caseload
Extensive knowledge of the ADHD diagnostic procedures and treatment packages offered.
Experience
* Significant post-registration experience within a service working with adults with ADHD and its overlapping disorders.
* Extensive experience working with prescribed medicines.
* Experience of working within and awareness of issues relating to management of ADHD including assessment of highly complex and co-morbid presentations of service users, their families and carers within this client group.
* Experience and ability to demonstrate sound knowledge of standard setting and audit processes.
* Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively to clients, their families and other professionals including dealing with sensitive, complex and difficult to receive information, using methods such as written, verbal and non-verbal skills.
* Ability to deliver effective health education programmes.
Package Description
As a Band 7 Specialist Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team.
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* AFC Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided).
* 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’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest rates.
* Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical well-being – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well 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 ring-fenced innovation funding each year.
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
* Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location.
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’ll 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.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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* Job Category HCRG - Nursing and Midwifery Registered
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