Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young Peoples Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC; Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-6441729
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 18/08/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist- ADHD
NHS AfC; Band 7
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We are looking for an exceptional Clinical Nurse Specialist to join or team to work alongside colleagues in the Children's Community team, offering a specialist service for children and young people (CYP) within our ADHD pathway. This will involve assessing, planning, and implementing programmes of care and treatment for CYP with ADHD, based on specialist knowledge, training and experience.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
The ADHD Nurse Specialist will take responsibility for standards of care delivery, and overall management of their caseload within the ADHD service from referral to discharge.
Work as a non-medical prescriber, engaging children, young people, families and carers in the non-pharmacological management and medical treatment of ADHD and offering medical and non-medical interventions on a wide range of associated conditions.
The ADHD Nurse Specialist will be an autonomous practitioner, employing highly developed skills in child and family centred care and working in partnership with medical, educational, voluntary, and other healthcare services.
As an integral part of a community healthcare provider, the post holder may deliver care and assessment in a clinic, educational or other healthcare setting or in a patient’s home.
The post holder will contribute to high quality patient care by providing specialist support, advice and education to patients, carers, and clinical staff across the organisation, in addition to other healthcare providers and stakeholders.
The ADHD Nurse Specialist will have a vital role in leading the continuing development of the ADHD service, based on specialist knowledge, research and evidence based best practice.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Nurse (RN Child/RSCN)
- First level degree in relevant subject
- Post-basic qualification in relevant specialist nursing, such as palliative care
- Evidence of continued professional development and training
- Teaching / Mentorship qualification
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of master’s level learning or prepared to work towards
- Advanced Communication Skills Training or prepared to work towards
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post registration experience in children’s nursing
- Experience of working with children with medical complexity
- Experience of mentorship and teaching
- Proven clinical, organizational and leadership/management experience
- Evidence of multi-professional working
- Patient coordination experience Evidence of advanced communication skills
- Ability to lead and influence change
Skills
Essential criteria
- IT literate
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Teaching/assessment skills
- Able to undertake pertinent clinical skills
- Effective communication skills
- Leadership skills
- Self-motivated with ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Ability to be flexible, adaptable and innovative
Desirable criteria
- Teaching and presentation skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Sound knowledge and experience of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
- Clear understanding and commitment to clinical governance and quality assurance
- Relevant post-registration training/qualification
- Knowledge of communication with children with special educational needs or sensory impairment
- Ability to interpret and implement research and audit, awareness of current developments in knowledge and service development of pertinence to children’s complexity
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity, and inclusion
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity, and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Act as an ambassador for the Roald Dahl Marvelous Children’s Charity
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elizabeth Franklin Jones
- Job title
- Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07721856001
- Additional information
For an informal visit please do contact Elizabeth Franklin-jones on the details above.
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