Specialist CAMHS ADHD Practitioner

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High;
Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.

We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

We are seeking to recruit a CAMHS ADHD Nurse Prescriber with excellent clinical skills and a strong interest in working with neurodivergent children and their families.

This is a 24-month fixed term post, within the Lewisham CAMHS ADHD treatment team, to provide leadership and management support to the ADHD medication review team to ensure access and flow are prioritised while maintaining own caseload.

The post holder will support in leading a highly specialist service for children and young people with ADHD, with co-occurring neurodivergence and/or mental health difficulties. The post holder will be expected to contribute to specialist assessments and treatment plans. The role involves co-ordinating medication clinics and includes undertaking non-medical prescribing.

Alongside this, the post holder will be expected to use their expertise to offer advice and consultation to other members of the team as well as offering training in assessments and interventions to the wider Lewisham CAMHS service, and other professional networks.

To provide leadership and management support to the ADHD medication review team to ensure access and flow are prioritised while maintaining own caseload.
To manage a caseload, providing the analysis of complex information to determine the planning and management of assessment and treatment to C&YP with ADHD and co-occurring neurodiverse/mental health difficulties.
To undertake assessments, including ADHD assessments.
To provide psychoeducation information sessions/groups.
To provide expertise in this highly specialist clinical area and to offer advice and consultation on clients care to other members of the service. To offer training in assessment and interventions for CYP with ADHD to CAMHS and other professional networks.
To liaise with medical colleagues, partner agencies and adult mental health professionals across a range of settings.
To work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and Trust guidelines.
To contribute to policy and service development, undertake research, service evaluation and audit for own team and to contribute to the training of the clinical team and others.
To work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.

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