Job summary
- Main area
- Non -Medical Prescriber, Allied Health Professional
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2279
- Employer
- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Barnet Hospital , Springwell Centre
- Town
- Barnet, London
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Non-Medical Prescriber
NHS AfC: Band 7
Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
- Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
To perform comprehensive assessments of and develop treatment plans for adults with diagnosed or suspected ADHD under clinical supervision of a consultant psychiatrist and/or associate specialist.
To initiate and monitor the pharmacological treatment with ADHD medication (as non-medical independent prescriber).
To provide information, education and support for service users and their carers re coping with diagnosis and treatments.
To provide clinical leadership to the Adult ADHD team in the care, treatment, and therapy of the client group, with a clear focus on clinical risk and its management.
To perform regular caseload and waiting list reviews on RiO and provide operational management for the admin team.
To interpret national guidelines and relevant research to inform local practice and procedures to achieve best practice. To maintain own expert status by developing training and improvement projects underpinned by research and legislation. To take part in and facilitate audits relevant to patient care.
Main duties of the job
- Triaging of referrals
- Perform comprehensive assessments of adults with previously diagnosed and suspected ADHD
- Identify and manage risk, comorbid conditions and to signpost appropriately
- Formulate treatment plans.
- Initiate titrate and monitor effects of ADHD medication including physical effects.
- Provide psycho-education about ADHD in adults and co-morbid conditions
- Liaise with GPs, NHS and non-NHS services.
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
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In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To undertake comprehensive new assessments of adults with suspected ADHD or review of adults with previously diagnosed ADHD.
• To initiate and monitor the pharmacological treatment with ADHD medication (as non-medical independent prescriber).
• To provide Clinical leadership to the Adult ADHD team in the care, treatment and therapy of the client group, with a clear focus on clinical risk and its management.
• To provide information, education and support for service users and their carers re coping with diagnosis and treatments.
See attached Job Description
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- • NMC registration, Registration with a Professional Body
- • Qualification in Non-Medical Independent Prescriber
- • Qualification as Nurse or Mental Health Nurse, Pharmacists, Allied Health Profession
Desirable criteria
- • Degree in biomedical research
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing
- • Ability to work within multidisciplinary team autonomously
- • Risk assessment and risk management skills
- • High quality record keeping
- • IT skills (Microsoft Office, RiO, HR software etc.)
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Experience as non-medical prescriber (General Adult, substance use, CAMH)
- • Experience as mental health nurse (General Adult, Substance use, CAMH, LD, Forensic)
- • Experience and knowledge about ADHD in adults
- • Supervision and appraisal of nurses and students
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in biomedical research
- • Experience of working in an adult ADHD service
- • Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- • Ability to self-manage time and meet agreed deadlines.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel to all Trust locations if required.
- Commitment to equal opportunities
- Commitment to service user and carer involvement
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lydia Abbey
- Job title
- Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07769227322
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