Non-Medical Prescriber Spec Adult ADHD Nurse
Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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!
Date posted
14 October 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
184-OL-GR-513
Job locations
Glanville House
Church Street
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA6 5AT
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Demonstrate a level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
- Be an autonomous probationer, with the ability to work independently, without direct clinical supervision. Be empowered to make autonomous clinical decisions carrying out complex interventions based on their own interpretation of the clinical situation.
- Collaboratively assess the needs of service users, maintain records associated with this process, provide further follow-up to monitor response to treatment, develop and contribute to non-pharmacological treatment offered within the service, and communicate with service users, families, referrers and other agencies as appropriate.
- Demonstrate a level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
- Work with multidisciplinary colleagues to further develop the assessment and treatment of service users referred to the service, and assist on developing the nursing role within the services.
- 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, GP's & Commissioners (where appropriate)
Job responsibilities
- Demonstrate a level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
- Be an autonomous probationer, with the ability to work independently, without direct clinical supervision. Be empowered to make autonomous clinical decisions carrying out complex interventions based on their own interpretation of the clinical situation.
- Collaboratively assess the needs of service users, maintain records associated with this process, provide further follow-up to monitor response to treatment, develop and contribute to non-pharmacological treatment offered within the service, and communicate with service users, families, referrers and other agencies as appropriate.
- Demonstrate a level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
- Work with multidisciplinary colleagues to further develop the assessment and treatment of service users referred to the service, and assist on developing the nursing role within the services.
- 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, GP's & Commissioners (where appropriate)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN/RNMH/RNLD qualification.Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by diploma level specialist training, short coursesRegistration qualification in independent and supplementary prescribing recordable recorded with the NMC (V300)Registered nurse or hold other relevant professional qualification and current registration appropriate to the job role.Professional registration with relevant statutory body
Desirable
- ADHD Training or equivalent
- UK Adult ADHD Network (UKAAN) Courses
Experience
Essential
- Plan and manage own workload using specialist understanding and analysis of complex situations, to prioritise response to referrals and urgent requests for advice
- To ensure day to day practice reflects the highest standards of governance, clinical effectiveness, safety, and patient experience.
- To ensure that services are delivered within an appropriate clinical governance framework, monitoring, and evaluating standards of care, and to raise concerns with Team Manager as necessary including through active use of the Risk Register.
- To implement and support the development of pathways and contribute to ongoing development of service.
- To chair meetings and provide cover for the ADHD Lead.
- Experience of delivering clinical supervision.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Managing an inpatient or outpatient caseload (A/I)
- Ability to communicate 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
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to empathically, sensitively and effectively communicate clinical and condition related information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues (within and outside the NHS) that is extremely complicated or technical; extremely sensitive and potentially distressing to the recipient; or that is extremely contentious or challenging
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN/RNMH/RNLD qualification.Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by diploma level specialist training, short coursesRegistration qualification in independent and supplementary prescribing recordable recorded with the NMC (V300)Registered nurse or hold other relevant professional qualification and current registration appropriate to the job role.Professional registration with relevant statutory body
Desirable
- ADHD Training or equivalent
- UK Adult ADHD Network (UKAAN) Courses
Experience
Essential
- Plan and manage own workload using specialist understanding and analysis of complex situations, to prioritise response to referrals and urgent requests for advice
- To ensure day to day practice reflects the highest standards of governance, clinical effectiveness, safety, and patient experience.
- To ensure that services are delivered within an appropriate clinical governance framework, monitoring, and evaluating standards of care, and to raise concerns with Team Manager as necessary including through active use of the Risk Register.
- To implement and support the development of pathways and contribute to ongoing development of service.
- To chair meetings and provide cover for the ADHD Lead.
- Experience of delivering clinical supervision.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Managing an inpatient or outpatient caseload (A/I)
- Ability to communicate 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
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to empathically, sensitively and effectively communicate clinical and condition related information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues (within and outside the NHS) that is extremely complicated or technical; extremely sensitive and potentially distressing to the recipient; or that is extremely contentious or challenging
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Glanville House
Church Street
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA6 5AT
Employer's website
https://www.somersetft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Glanville House
Church Street
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA6 5AT
Employer's website
https://www.somersetft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
For questions about the job, contact:
Clinical Lead, Somerset Adult ADHD Service
Rosie Grenter
rosie.grenter@somersetft.nhs.uk
07879431518
Date posted
14 October 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
184-OL-GR-513
Job locations
Glanville House
Church Street
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA6 5AT
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