ADHD Nurse

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Are you passionate about improving the lives of children and young people with mental health difficulties or emotional disorders? Brent CAMHS needs you. Following successive innovative and transformative projects driven by strong leadership and organizational culture, Brent CAMHS has secured extra investments and funding to expand its workforce capacity.
We are seeking for an enthusiastic and confident ADHD Nurse with a demonstrable track record of working within CAMHS, of providing high quality evidence-based interventions and service improvements.
Brent is a multi-ethnic and culturally diverse community, and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working within the richness and complexity of multiculturally diverse context.
The successful applicant will be joining a comprehensive and dynamic CAMHS service, located at Monks Park Health Centre, Wembley.
Your role will involve developing and delivering a wide range of interventions, projects and system changes with the aim of supporting children and young people with mental health issues or emotional disorders. In addition to providing comprehensive consultations, assessment, risk management and interventions for children and young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties, the post-holder will also clinically supervise students/colleagues. Supervision training will be provided where required.
To provide a qualified specialist service to children and young people with mental health problems across all sectors of care as part of a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people their families and carers.
The Post Holder will provide a core element of the service for children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). He or she will play an active role in multi-disciplinary discussions and assessments.

ADHD monitoring clinics- to monitor progress and medication
Involvement in the ADHD assessment, the Information Sharing Groups for parents and children, the medication initiation groups and trial of medication review groups
Advice to parents on behavioural management including challenging behaviours at home and sleep problems
Support to parents and young people seeking help between clinic appointments or when in crisis
Close liaison with schools in relation to children and adolescents progress at school and response to medication
Close liaison with the ADHD Support Group and groups offering Parent Training.
The Brent CAMH service is based at Monks Park Clinic, Wembley. The team is well established and is staffed by a large multi-disciplinary team of clinicians. We aim to provide an accessible, flexible and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area using the whole range of therapeutic interventions, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, systemic and family Therapy, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Psychoeducation, DBT therapy groups and multi-family work as well as Positive Behaviour Support. Brent CAMHS consists of four main sub-teams: Emotional Disorders Team; Neurodevelopmental Team; Enhanced Treatment Team, and; Learning Disabilities (LD-CAMHS). The post holder may be required to travel to other parts of the catchment area and / or wider service and trust as necessary, including working within the community (e.g. schools). The service operates Monday to Friday 09.00 to 17:00 with some flexibility to work extended hours to meet service need.
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To work closely with the Lead Consultant Psychiatrist for ADHD in organizing the structure of the ADHD
To provide ADHD monitoring clinics- to monitor progress and
To be involved in the ADHD Assessment Days, the Information Sharing Groups for parents and children, the Medication Initiation Groups and trial of Medication Review
To provide advice to parents on behavioural management including challenging behaviours at home and sleep
To provide support to parents and young people seeking help between clinic appointments or when in
To promote professional relationships with Paediatricians in the interest of children and adolescents with developmental or medical
To liaise effectively with schools in relation to children’s and adolescents’ progress at school and response to
To liaise closely with the ADHD Support Group (Independent Sector) and groups offering Parent
To assist with the evaluation of the ADHD service and interventions provided including the analysis of relevant
To be involved in consultation and training in the area of ADHD e.g. to teachers, trainees and medical
Clinical Responsibilities
To help organize and contribute to the assessment of children and adolescents when ADHD is suspected and to be participate in the psycho-education of parents, children and adolescent
To help organize and participate in all trials of medication and their evaluation
To weigh, measure and take the blood pressure and pulse of children and adolescents attending the monitoring
To keep up to date charts of growth and blood pressure
To assess any side effects of
To assess whether the children and adolescents are making progress and that their ADHD symptoms are largely under control i.e. that they are on the appropriate
To consult and link with a psychiatrist when problems with medication are identified e.g. ineffectiveness, growth problems or side effect problems and together decide on whether the Care Plan needs changing and, if so, how this will be
To advise parents on behaviour management and respond to requests for help or when there is a crisis between
To provide reports as appropriate to external agencies, ensuring that issues around confidentiality are managed
To Liaise and communicate effectively with the rest of the ADHD
To develop and carry out other nursing roles as required