Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse Prescriber and Practitioner
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £61,927.00 to £68,676.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £61927.00 - £68676.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, E9 6ED |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9363-25-0564 |
Summary
To provide comprehensive specialist assessments, including risk assessment of young people and their families/carers referred with learning disability and/or autistic spectrum disorder and/or ADHD. To provide evidence-based behaviour management interventions as part of an integrated care package to children, young people and their families/carers. To safely prescribe and monitor medications within local and national guidelines, in liaison with a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. This includes conveying to parents, carers and young people, the implications of a prescribed medication, the side effects and what they have to watch for in a sensitive, meaningful way. To demonstrate a working knowledge of the prescription of medication effects, side-effects and contra-indications in accordance with the independent and supplementary prescribers training and current legislation. To be aware of key trends in the evidence base for prescribing and maintain an up-to-date knowledge of medicines commonly prescribed 1.6. To maintain a record of all medicines prescribed for audit purposes.To monitor the efficacy of medicines prescribed and manage any side effects safely, using the Yellow Card reporting system as appropriate.