ADHD Clinical Lead Nurse - Band 7

Job Introduction

Lead Meaningful Change for Adults with Neurodevelopmental Needs Across BSW

Join our Learning Disability, Autism and Neurodiversity division and play a central role in shaping a high‑quality, needs‑led service for adults with Learning Disabilities, Autism and ADHD across Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW). This is your opportunity to make a real, lasting difference to service users at every stage of their neurodevelopmental journey—both pre‑ and post‑diagnosis.

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist and Non‑Medical Prescriber within the BSW Neurodevelopmental Pathway team, you’ll be at the forefront of delivering specialist assessment, prescribing, and therapeutic support to adults with ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions, as well as their families. You’ll take a leadership role within the ADHD assessment and post‑diagnostic pathway, including medicines management, ensuring safe, person‑centred and evidence‑based care.

You’ll also contribute to the development of a single, needs‑led neurodevelopmental pathway across the BSW region—working collaboratively with HCRG Care Group and BSW ICB LDAN partners to redesign and improve services for the future.

In this role, you will:

• Provide expert clinical input, assessment and prescribing in line with NICE guidance and professional frameworks.
• Act as Clinical Lead (under Consultant guidance) for the ADHD service.
• Support operational management for the ADHD pathway.
• Play an active role in multidisciplinary triage and facilitate coordinated liaison with internal and external services.
• Champion staff development in line with HCRG Care Group standards and NMC/HCPC requirements.

This is a unique opportunity for a skilled clinician to take the lead in transforming neurodevelopmental care across the region—driving innovation, quality and better outcomes for adults with complex needs.

Main Responsibilities 

• Working closely with the neurodevelopmental pathway team to develop, deliver and monitor needs‑led assessment and care for adults and their families.
• Acting as a key member of the ADHD multidisciplinary team, collaborating with clinicians across a range of disciplines.
• Leading preliminary assessments for new referrals across the BSW locality, using agreed tools and gathering information through observation, interviews and structured assessments.
• Prescribing ADHD‑related medication as an Advanced Nurse Prescriber, following NMC, NICE and national guidelines.
• Using a Think Family and trauma‑informed approach throughout all clinical work.
• Completing comprehensive assessments based on multiple information sources, including psychological measures, rating scales, direct/indirect observations and patient/family interviews.
• Working in line with the NMC Code of Conduct, professional standards and Trust policies.
• Prescribing safely under a Clinical Management Plan, while maintaining up‑to‑date pharmaceutical knowledge and auditing your prescribing practice.
• Developing and delivering evidence‑based treatment plans, including medication and non‑pharmacological interventions.
• Making autonomous clinical decisions for the long‑term management of adults with ADHD and supporting their families.
• Providing clear communication, support and signposting through face‑to‑face appointments, virtual clinics and between‑appointment advice.
• Using advanced communication and interpersonal skills to explain complex or sensitive information, advocating for service users where needed.
• Managing an unpredictable caseload and offering expert advice outside of scheduled appointments.

Package Description

As an ADHD Clinical Lead Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in our Learning Disabilities Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £46,148 - £52,809 FTE (Band 7 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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 life’s 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 you’re 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 the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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