Are you a Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Learning Disability Nurse who also hold the Non-Medical Prescriber (V300) Qualification? Are you passionate about working with neurodiverse people? Are you committed to making a difference, one person at a time? If the answer is yes, then we'd love to hear from you! The Somerset Adult ADHD Service is currently recruiting a Band 7 Non-Medical Prescriber to join our dynamic team. We are a busy and dedicated county-wide service, providing patient-centred ADHD assessments and treatments to adults in Somerset who have not yet received an ADHD diagnosis. Our service operates collaboratively and consultatively with colleagues within the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, as well as with wider support networks and agencies, to deliver an integrated service model. We pride ourselves on our strong values of supporting staff wellbeing and fostering a safe and positive team culture. As a team, we embody our organisational values of kindness, respect, and teamwork to achieve the best outcomes for our service users. Your primary role will be to deliver ADHD assessments and pharmacological treatments. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to lead quality improvement projects as our service continues to develop. As an independent prescriber, your responsibilities will include writing prescriptions for 'off label' and controlled drugs., In this role, you will demonstrate expertise within the specialist service by providing advice, education, and support to staff, patients, their families, and carers. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues to enhance the assessment and treatment processes for our service users and contribute to the development of the nursing role within our services. You will work autonomously, making independent clinical decisions and carrying out complex interventions based on your own interpretation of the clinical situation. Your responsibilities will include:
* Collaboratively assessing the needs of service users
* Maintaining records associated with this process
* Providing follow-up to monitor response to treatment
* Developing and contributing to non-pharmacological treatments within the service
* Communicating effectively with service users, families, referrers, and other agencies
You will develop strong relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including the Trust Psychological Well-being Service, Children's Services, Single Point of Access, GPs, and Commissioners, where appropriate.
As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!