ADHD Specialist Practitioner

Job summary

Are you passionate about transforming the lives of children and young people? Halton Childrens Specialist Services is offering a rare and rewarding opportunity for an experienced and motivated ADHD Specialist Nurse to join our highly valued multi-disciplinary team.

As part of our dedicated Neurodevelopmental Nursing Team (NDNT), you will play a pivotal role in supporting children and young people with complex neurodevelopmental conditions, including ADHD, ASD, and global developmental delay. This is an exciting chance to make a lasting difference within a forward-thinking, community-based service committed to delivering exceptional care and outcomes for families.

Working closely with the Operational Manager and Team Leader, you will help shape and deliver an innovative specialist ADHD service.

Your role will include coordinating and completing ADHD assessments including interpreting Qb test results, providing expert guidance throughout the diagnostic pathway, and delivering high-quality post-diagnostic care and treatment support and prescribing of medication for children and young people.

Collaboration is at the heart of this role. You will work alongside community paediatricians, schools, GPs, parents/carers, and partner agencies to promote understanding of neurodevelopmental conditions and ensure children and families receive the right support at the right time.

Main duties of the job

To act as a source of expertise and demonstrate advanced knowledge skills and experience in the management of complex caseloads including managing own designated caseload and supervising caseload of band 6 nurses and the skill mix team.

To support less experienced staff in supporting complex cases ensuring they deliver high quality interventions.

To provide and receive complex information concerning a child/young person/their families and to communicate effectively and sensitively to provide appropriate advice and support as tailored to meet their needs. Communication of this nature may also include other internal staff members/departments and external agencies.

Autonomous practitioner responsible for planning and organising own caseload.

Accountable for the delivery and development of an evolving specialist nurse led service with ADHD.

Provide and support a nurse led service that triage, assess, diagnosis, and treat children and young people with neurodevelopment disorders specific to ADHD.

Work innovatively to address client need.

To assess, plan and implement packages of care for children & young people, up to 19 years of age, with a diagnosed severe or complex learning disability or neuro-developmental disability (including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism).

Job responsibilities

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region.

Bringing together community and out-of-hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM).

They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.

Our mission

We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other

Our vision

We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn

Our values

• Kind: We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone
• Open: We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
• Fair: We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
• One team: We work well together and with our communities