Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) - Neurodiversity | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	04 February 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£61,631 - £68,623 pro rata pa inc
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	06 March 2026
Location:	Sidcup, Kent, DA14 4TA
Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7773491/277-7773491-CYP

Summary

This is a new and exciting fixed-term role offering unique opportunities for an experienced advanced nurse practitioner, to support the development, implementation and establishment of a pilot service to test a new neurodiversity (ND) service model for children and young people (CYP) across several South East London (SEL) boroughs. This is initially a 15-month pilot, with the potential to extend to 18mths.

The aim is to test a new multi-borough ND support and assessment model, facilitating a reduction in the longest waits for ADHD and ASD assessment across SEL. The Hub will:

• offer a single point of access and a dual diagnostic pathway (where required) for assessment

• pilot the use of an ND insight profiling tool to inform assessment and identify support needs

• offer relevant support and workshops to CYP and their families whilst waiting

• develop a community/primary care medication pathway for ADHD medication initiation, titration and reviews.

The Hub team will be multi-disciplinary, including community paediatrics, psychiatry, GP, speech & language therapy, nursing and psychology, with neurodiversity wellbeing practitioner roles being developed to focus on needs led support.

The team will be led by a Clinical Programme Lead and an Operational Team Lead. The ND hub will work closely with colleagues across a range of services, including CAMHS and transitional pathways to adult services.

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will be a senior autonomous clinician working within the SEL CYP ND Hub. The post holder will have completed postgraduate training in Advanced Clinical Practice and will demonstrate expertise across the four pillars of advanced practice: Clinical Practice, Leadership, Education, and Research. This role requires the application of high-level knowledge, independent clinical judgment, and practice-based experience to support children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs, with a primary focus of ADHD. This role requires the ANP to be an independent prescriber and significant experience of ADHD assessment is essential to this role.

Additionally, this post will hold direct line management responsibility for the newly developing neurodiversity wellbeing practitioner roles. Experience as a line manager or in a supervisory role is preferred.

The post holder will be operationally managed by the Operational Team Lead and will receive professional support from a named nurse, with specialist supervision provided by a senior clinical psychologist and the Clinical Programme Manager.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

• Demonstrate the knowledge and skills to articulate comprehensive assessment, formulation and care planning, verbally and in written form.
• Act with inclusivity, initiative and creativity to incorporate strength-based principles to support people to address their individual needs.
• Communicate specialist condition-related information to the person, carers and other health professionals; where there may be significant barriers to acceptance or understanding.
• Uses communication, negotiation, conflict management skills; requiring empathy, reassurance and persuasion, where there are significant barriers to change.
• Demonstrates a comprehensive critical awareness of the potential for stigmatisation and the possible impact on co-production, intervention and motivation.
• Demonstrates a depth of understanding around the impact of population health and wellbeing, taking appropriate steps to address inequalities and vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrates a critical understanding of the multiple perspectives within a situation; ensuring the needs of carers, of all ages, are appropriately assessed, explored and addressed.

• Provide ADHD diagnosis support/queries/training: Offer individual advice and support/signpost families, post diagnosis on the management of ADHD and behavioural difficulties.
• Medication Review (booked and adhoc): including a health assessment in association with medication and offer advice and support around medication and repeat prescribing as appropriate.
• Prescribing: To act as an independent non-medical prescriber ensuring full adherence to scope of practice, supervision and competency requirements
• Liaise with partner agencies, including Education and CAMHS/community paediatrics for updates and support for the children/young people and their families.
• Shared care and partnership: Liaise with the primary health care team regarding referrals and management of CYP with ADHD and behavioural difficulties.
• Education and Training: Liaise with SENCOs on appropriate support materials for children and young people and families, including resources for use within schools.
• Transition support: Provide advice and support for the young person transitioning to adult/primary care services.
• Demonstrate a deep and systematic knowledge and understanding of local care systems (including agencies outside of statutory care); collaborating with and referring to them independently and when required.
• Act as clinical lead on the delivery of specialist-specific interventions, working in collaboration with the young person, their family and carers, as well as a range of professionals and agencies.
• Hold direct line management responsibility for the ND Wellbeing Practitioners within the CYP ND Hub, with responsibility for the delivery of highly effective staff management, supervision and support for these staff.
• Demonstrate support, respect and courtesy towards colleagues, working in a professional manner and with Trust values always in mind, respecting the boundaries of the relationship with the CYP, families, carers and staff.
• Challenges, where appropriate, professional and organisational boundaries, identify areas for skill/knowledge development and apply these to practice ensuring continuity and high standards of care.
• Exemplify leadership, resilience and determination, manage situations that are unfamiliar, uncertain, complex or unpredictable and seek to build confidence in others.
• Receives, leads, delivers and exemplifies a culture of critically reflective clinical supervision.
• Manages the expectations of both clinical interventions and service demands in knowledge of available resources (i.e. finance, staffing and access to services).
• Supports the development of trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioners, acting as a role model, supervisor and assessor, where required.
• To effectively manage own workload and the need to frequently re-prioritise work to respond to multiple, competing demands.


This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Feb 2026

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