ADHD Nurse Practitioner

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

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Are you a registered Health Care Professional such as Mental Health Nurse or Paediatric Nurse? Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge in mental health? Would you like to be part of a forward thinking, supportive and developing service?

We are looking for someone who would be enthusiastic about working with young people with neurodevelopmental diagnoses and their families, positive and enabling in their approach, able to work in partnership with young people, their families and professional networks with creativity and flexibility.

Manchester Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) work with Children, Young People and Families aged up to 18 years and who present with a wide range of complex emotional and behavioural difficulties.

We are looking for an experienced health practitioner who is able to work autonomously at Band 6, within a multi-disciplinary team. You must have demonstrable experience of working with vulnerable people and families, who present with complex mental health needs and often risk to self and or others.

You must have a working knowledge of CAMHS best practice initiatives and proven ability to assess complex mental health needs and levels of risk, including safeguarding and self-harm and the ability to offer evidence based interventions to meet need.

If this is you, we would love to hear from you and for you to be part of our fantastic team.

Main duties of the job

This is a clinical role working predominantly with young people with a diagnosis of ADHD and potentially with co-morbid mental health problems and challenging behaviours. You will work as part of the CAMHS service. You will also work closely with their families, carers and professional networks. The role will include contributing to assessment (semi-structured clinical, neuropsychological, structured diagnostic assessment, observation), carrying out school observations and providing intervention, including direct individual, family, group therapeutic work, psycho-education, indirect behavioural work, case management and post diagnostic support.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Registration

• Must be registered with a professional body

Qualifications

• Recognised Professional Qualification (eg RMN/RSCN/RNLD)
• Qualifications in psychotherapeutic approaches

Experience

• Proven experience of working effectively with people with mental health difficulties.
• Experience in assessing and managing risk, including safeguarding
• Experience of providing evidence based practice
• Experience of liaising with MDT and Multi-Agency working
• Experience of managing a caseload
• Experience of working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
• Community experience

Knowledge, Skills and Ability

• Up to date knowledge of child mental health and relevant legislation
• Assessment, formulation and ongoing management
• Ability to manage own case load
• Ability to work independently
• Use of electronic records

Other

• Ability to travel independently as part of role

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.