Band 7 ADHD Clinical Nurse Specialist
| Posting date: | 18 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2025 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN25 4AN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | E0279-25-1094 |
Summary
As a Band 7 Clinical Specialist Nurse for ADHD, youll be part of our valued and growing team with bases across BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire.
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- AFC Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
The ideal candidate will meet the following essential criteria:
- Be a registered Nurse BSc (Hons) Level 1 RGN or Equivalent
- Have qualifications and significant experience in ADHD assessments
- Have evidence of continuous professional development within the last two years
- Be an Independent / Supplementary prescriber (V300) to prescribe medication for ADHD diagnosed patients on team caseload
- Have extensive knowledge of the ADHD diagnostic procedures and treatment packages offered.
The ideal candidate will have the following experience:
- Significant post registration experience within a service working with adults with ADHD and its overlapping disorders.
- Extensive experience working with prescribed medicines
- Experience of working within and awareness of issues relating to management of ADHD including assessment of highly complex and co morbid presentations of service users, their families and carers within this client group
- Experience and ability to demonstrate sound knowledge of standard setting and audit processes
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively to clients, their families and other professionals including dealing with sensitive, complex and difficult to receive information, using methods such as written, verbal and non-verbal skills.
- Ability to deliver effective health education programmes.