Clinical Lead

Our ADHD Careers: About the role

Salary: Starting at £66,000 pro rata PAYE

Shift and Schedule: 40 Hours Monday to Friday

Location: Remote

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Competitive pension scheme
• Access to ‘blue light’ discount services
• Free use of our static caravan located in the Peak District providing respite, a chance to ‘take time out’ or just to have a break in a super location!
• Opportunity to work with a talented and supportive team
• Casual dress
• Support with CPD
• Free onsite parking

Full job description:

Do you want to make a difference?

Are you ready for a new challenge?

Can you work in a team that's supporting world class healthcare for people with ADHD?

If you have answered YES to these questions, we have a great opportunity for you!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee and support the clinical work of team members, ensuring adherence to best practices and regulatory standards. This includes providing 1:1 Supervision, Supervised Assessments and Deep Dive Audits.
• Conduct regular team drop ins to discuss cases, share knowledge, and address challenges. You will be the teams’ point of contact to discuss clinical issues including differential diagnoses, medical concerns and prescribing. This will provide an opportunity to ensure a unified approach to patient care, ensuring consistency across ADHD 360 service.
• To be responsible for the clinical induction and coaching of all new staff within your team, supported by the wider programme of onboarding within the organisation, and to provide support to the clinician throughout the probationary period as required.
• Experience of overseeing & managing mental health risk &/or safeguarding concerns raised by your team. This must include the ability to contain and support so they can carry out their role efficiently and promote a culture of safe management of risk. You will be the first point of contact for support regarding the management of risk providing advice and guidance and ensuring adherence to the relevant legislative and legal requirements.
• Being the point of contact for your team members to report and record clinical incidents, taking all necessary actions to ensure the immediate safety of patients, their families and staff.
• You will have the ability and willingness to hold productive, but challenging conversations, and follow formal processes in collaboration with the Team Manager where team members are not meeting clinical expectations or quality standards. You will be responsible for supporting the clinical element of a team members performance improvement plan.
• You will also complete a range of patient safety incident reviews and investigations at the instruction of the Directors and Clinical Assurance Management Team. You will be required to analyse and interpret a range of facts and situations and make appropriate recommendations to learn from the findings of the incident.
• You will possess well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carer and other professional colleagues both within and outside of the organisation.
• To take responsibility for own continuous professional development, maintaining a sound level of professional knowledge and competence in line with professional development plan agreed at annual appraisal.
• Assess adults, and/ or Children and young people for ADHD, considering differential and/or co-occurring conditions to make diagnostic decisions.
• You will practice as a non-medical prescriber (independent/supplementary prescribing) to develop and implement treatment and titration plans, ensuring physical observations are obtained and reviewed.
• You will support the patient throughout their treatment journey, conducting regular follow ups for adults and/or children under your care until they have reached stability and optimisation.
• Perform patient risk assessments and review safeguarding needs in conjunction with treatment strategies during the patient journey.
• Responsibility for ensuring that the prescription is written as per legal requirements for controlled and non-controlled drugs
• Maintain accurate and timely client records on Chrysalis and associated clinical templates, adhering to professional requirements for accurate record keeping, and the recording of prescriptions in accordance with ADHD 360 policy.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding and adherence to security in relation to prescription security and management.
• You will be responsible for recognising and reporting clinical Incidents and near misses to support the culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Qualified nurse, current UK registration and PIN with the NMC, Pharmacy Practitioner with GPhC registration, without practice restrictions (Essential)
• Qualified Medical or Non-medical Prescriber (NMP) with current registration (Essential)
• Specialist ADHD Nurse/ Pharmacist with experience (Desirable)
• To work unsupervised and independently within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct, or GPHc Standards. (Essential)
• Expert level of understanding of the pharmaceutical treatment options for ADHD (Desirable)
• Experience managing and supervising staff, including dealing with organisational change, conflict management and performance management. (Essential)
• Experience of participation in Clinical Governance processes including Clinical Audit, prioritising patient safety and quality.
• Demonstrable ability to connect with and provide support for children and/ or Adults
• Familiarity with EPR systems
• Willingness to learn and follow clinic’s standards of practice
• Excellent communication skills, ability to communicate effectively with staff and patients
• IT skills to be able to undertake a remote post with virtual assessments
• Ability to work alongside others within a multi-disciplinary team setting
• Professional approach consistent with regulatory body expectations
• Excellent time management and ability to manage own workload

Competencies:

• Integrity
• Dependability
• Attention to detail
• Confident
• Team player
• Resilience