Non-Medical Prescriber

Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:
+ Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together
+ Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
+ Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes
+ Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
+ Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services
+ Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership, To perform comprehensive assessments of and develop treatment plans for adults with diagnosed or suspected ADHD under clinical supervision of a consultant psychiatrist and/or associate specialist.
To initiate and monitor the pharmacological treatment with ADHD medication (as non-medical independent prescriber).
To provide information, education and support for service users and their carers re coping with diagnosis and treatments.
To provide clinical leadership to the Adult ADHD team in the care, treatment, and therapy of the client group, with a clear focus on clinical risk and its management.
To perform regular caseload and waiting list reviews on RiO and provide operational management for the admin team.
To interpret national guidelines and relevant research to inform local practice and procedures to achieve best practice. To maintain own expert status by developing training and improvement projects underpinned by research and legislation. To take part in and facilitate audits relevant to patient care., + Triaging of referrals
+ Perform comprehensive assessments of adults with previously diagnosed and suspected ADHD
+ Identify and manage risk, comorbid conditions and to signpost appropriately
+ Formulate treatment plans.
+ Initiate titrate and monitor effects of ADHD medication including physical effects.
+ Provide psycho-education about ADHD in adults and co-morbid conditions
+ Liaise with GPs, NHS and non-NHS services.,

• To undertake comprehensive new assessments of adults with suspected ADHD or review of adults with previously diagnosed ADHD.


• To initiate and monitor the pharmacological treatment with ADHD medication (as non-medical independent prescriber).


• To provide Clinical leadership to the Adult ADHD team in the care, treatment and therapy of the client group, with a clear focus on clinical risk and its management.


• To provide information, education and support for service users and their carers re coping with diagnosis and treatments.
  
  The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

Why choose to join the Partnership?
+ We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
+ Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
+ Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
+ Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
+ We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
+ Generous Annual Leave Allowance
+ NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
+ We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
+ In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.