CAMHS Clinical Nurse ADHD Specialist

• Deliver specialist ADHD assessment, treatment, prescribing, and care coordination for children and young people within Lambeth CAMHS.
• Undertake comprehensive mental and physical health assessments, manage risk and safeguarding concerns, and develop personalised care plans.
• Provide evidence-based interventions and maintain high standards of clinical documentation and communication.

• Support nursing leadership across Lambeth CAMHS.
• Work with the Lead Nurse to uphold standards of care and deputise for the Highly Specialist ADHD Nurse Prescriber when required.

• Participate in clinical, prescribing, management, and professional supervision.
• Support the development of nursing staff, supervise student nurses, and provide training, consultation, and advice to staff and partner agencies.
• Maintain professional development and mandatory training compliance.

• Contribute to service improvement, clinical governance, recruitment, audit, and quality improvement initiatives.

• Participate in service evaluation, audit, research, and the implementation of evidence-based practice.

• Maintain up-to-date professional knowledge and ensure compliance with professional standards, Trust policies, and governance requirements.
• This role will require both a laptop and phone due to the nature of the role and agile working

Essential

• First level nursing qualification (registration RMN or RSCN or HV) / with related CAMHS experience and MSc level qualification or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio of post registration professional development in child and adolescent mental health including evidence of clinical, audit and/or research presentations at local and national CAMHS events and evidence of publication of articles or the production of strategic reports which have advanced CAMHS.
• All applications will require professional registration with a statutory body e.g. the Nursing Midwifery Council, General Social care council, Health professional's council or applicable psychological or psychotherapies body
• Ability to work as a Non-medical prescriber with appropriate NMC registration.

Essential

• Graduate qualification related to or equivalent with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio including experience of specialist mental health assessment and treatment with children and young people with mental health difficulties, emotional, behavioural and relational problems and their families, including looked after children.
• Experience of managing complex and high- risk cases
• Experience of working with children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds
• Experience of supervision of other staff and experience of clinical leadership and providing clinical support for practitioners across disciplines including recruitment, supervision and appraisal
• Experience of multi-agency collaboration and integrated working
• Experience of working with young people who are neurodiverse including those with ADHD

Desirable

• Experience working as an independent non-medical prescriber with a CAMHS service and ability to demonstrate continuing professional development in this area.
• Experience of consultation to, and clinical supervision of other staff
• Experience of providing teaching and training to multidisciplinary groups
• Experience of developing and carrying out research projects with children and young people

Essential

• Knowledge of CAMHS research methodology
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Knowledge of psychological assessment of behaviour and emotional disorders and difficulties, relationship difficulties, attachment disorders and difficulties, and clinical psychometrics
• Specialist knowledge of childhood disorders including emotional and behavioural disorders, relationship difficulties and attachment disorders and theories of child development.
• Specialist knowledge of neurodevelopmental disorders including ADHD
• Practitioner level knowledge of at least one model of psychological therapy and knowledge of the theoretical and evidence base for them
• Knowledge of legislation and national policy in relation to Looked After Children and mental health issues, including the Children Act, safeguarding children and the Mental Health Act.
• Awareness of racial and diversity issues and their impact on service access, through attendance of relevant training

Essential

• Ability to supervise student nurses having completed relevant training
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, highly technical and sensitive information to children, young people, families and colleagues
• Experience in consultation skills to work with the multi-professional team and/or other professional groups
• Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems involving a child's or young person's mental health issues, family relationships or future placement, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Ability to work independently as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate level of clinical and managerial supervision
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to effective

Desirable

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Post qualification CPD to develop clinical and/or research skills relevant to specialist area as agreed in the Personal Development Plan