Registered Nurse associate ADHD / ASC

at  Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

You will have the knowledge and skills necessary to contribute towards the provision of an accurate and timely service for patients. You will be required, utilising a proforma, to discuss patients experiences of their medication and record their baseline physical health observations. You will be expected to apply professional judgments and specialist skills to technical situations. This may include making decisions as to whether you direct patients to their GPs, to the teams non-medical prescribers or choose to discharge with no further action required.
You will be required to communicate effectively with patients and to colleagues, including GP practice staff, MHICT, Talking Therapies as required via phone calls, letters or emails. Collect and collate data / information effectively for the purpose of audit, research and service performance. As this is a new and developing role in the Adult ADHD and Autism service, there will also be the expectation that you will support senior members of both services in delivering a post diagnostic education group. This will initially be for those diagnosed in our service with Autistic Spectrum condition, however, as the service develops, the role will also include being part of creating and developing a post diagnostic group for those diagnosed with ADHD

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