Adult ADHD Services - Prescribing Assessor
| Posting date: | 09 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £60,504.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £60504.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 September 2025 |
| Location: | Redditch, B97 5JX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0158-25-0078 |
Summary
Adult ADHD Assessor & Reviewer (Prescribing Route) Directorate: Neurodevelopmental & Mental Health Base: Worcester (WR5) & Redditch (B98) hubs hybrid delivery (mostly remote) Hours: MonFri, 09:0017:00 |Contract: Substantive or FTC | Salary: £46,148£60,504 FTE Reports to: Principal Clinical Psychologist | Clinical partners: Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical GP Lead Pre-employment checks: Enhanced DBS with barred lists, Safeguarding L3, NHS Performers List (where applicable), Right to Work (UK) We reserve the right to make changes to align with business needs. About the role Join a service that puts outcomes before bureaucracy. As an Adult ADHD Assessor & Reviewer (Prescribing), youll blend structured diagnostic assessments, clear family-centred feedback, and safe medication initiation/titration in a model designed around NICE guidance and good patient experience. Your day might start with a focused video assessment, move to brief titration check-ins, then finish with an MDT discussion and shared-care handover back to the GP once stable. We protect your clinical time with standardised templates, same-day letters and realistic clinic templates so you can do what matters most: help people function better at home, work and in relationships. Main duties Deliver NICE-aligned adult ADHD assessments (history, impairment, co-morbidity, risk) and provide clear feedback and written plans. Prescribe and adjust stimulant/non-stimulant medication within local formulary; arrange/interpret baselines and monitoring. Run brief titration contacts (phone/video) to stability, then complete safe shared-care transfer to primary care (EPS & templates). Keep contemporaneous records and produce high-quality letters on the day. Bring complex cases to the weekly MDT; contribute to audit, incident learning and quality improvement. Support induction and day-to-day coaching for colleagues; uphold safeguarding, consent/capacity and information governance at all times. About you One of: NMC Nurse V300 IP, GPhC Clinical Pharmacist IP, or GMC GP with recent UK adult ADHD experience. Confident with initiation, titration and adverse-effect management; understands shared-care pathways. Strong communicator, calm under pressure, organised with time and documentation; values equity, diversity and inclusion. What we offer Predictable hours (MonFri, 95), no on-call. Supportive MDT (Consultant Psychiatrist, GP Lead, Psychology) and protected admin time. Realistic clinic templates (e.g., 6090 min assessment; 30 min feedback; 30 min initiation; 1015 min titration calls). CPD, supervision and genuine scope to shape how care is delivered. Working pattern Hybrid clinics with face-to-face capacity at Worcester/Redditch hubs for baselines, complex reviews and patient choice. How to apply Please submit your CV and short statement outlining your adult ADHD prescribing/titration experience and earliest start date. We welcome requests for reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.