South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Adult ADHD Clinical Nurse Specialist
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Are you a Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse with a V300 Non-Medical Prescriber qualification looking to develop your career within a specialist Adult ADHD service? Join our established non-complex Adult ADHD team, supporting adults across Lambeth and Lewisham through high-quality, evidence-based assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
You will become part of a welcoming, multidisciplinary team that includes experienced Nurse Prescribers and specialist clinicians. We are looking for a team player with excellent communication skills who enjoys working collaboratively, sharing expertise and building strong relationships with colleagues, service users and partner organisations.
Our service is actively involved in research, teaching and service development within the rapidly expanding field of neurodevelopmental disorders. This is an excellent opportunity to broaden your skills, contribute to innovation and help shape the future of ADHD care while learning from experienced professionals.
This role offers the autonomy to use your advanced clinical skills alongside the support of a knowledgeable and dedicated team. Whether your interests lie in clinical practice, education, quality improvement or research, you will find opportunities to grow your career and make a lasting difference to adults living with ADHD.
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Role Description:
- Work autonomously as an independent professional in the specialist adult ADHD service as an experienced clinician who, acting within their own professional boundaries, will undertake assessment using specialist diagnostic tools.
- Provide reviews for clients with an established diagnosis.
- Act as a non-medical prescriber, being skilled in the diagnostic assessment and, if diagnosis given, will initiate treatment and titrate patients to optimum dose of medication.
- Demonstrate safe clinical decision-making and expert care planning for our service users.
- Demonstrate shared decision making whilst utilising critical thinking as part of the clinical decision-making process.
- Work with the multi-professional team to meet the needs of the service users and take full responsibility for their own work.
- Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to deliver an effective service to those referred to the 3 Boroughs Adult ADHD and Autism Service.
Why Join Us:
- Come and join our small team of friendly practitioners, who strive to put our services users at the heart of all they do.
- We have an active Service User and Carer Advisory Group who support us in making service improvements.
- We are one of the first Trusts to work collaboratively with our commissioners and NHS partners in providing a single point of access for all adult ADHD assessment referrals.
- This service offers triage of all referrals into the adult ADHD services across South East London.
- We are currently piloting A.I. to support our clinicians on the diagnostic pathway, reducing impact of report writing and ensuring neuroaffirmative ways of gathering background information.
- We also plan to be one of the host test sites for future multicentre NIHR project looking at ADHD treatment outcomes.
- We contribute to the ADHD Pan London Reference Group which seeks to share and learn best practice across all London NHS Trusts.
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Contact Information:
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For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Deborah Mason
Job title: Clinical and Operational Lead
Email address: Dmason3@slam.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07354164416
Additional Contact:
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Name: Thembani Dube
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Job title: Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist
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Email address: Tdube@slam.nhs.uk
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Telephone number: 07710066023
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