Job summary
- Main area
- Allied Health Professional within Adult ADHD Service
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 333-J-BR-0771
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingswood Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Psychologist/Nurse/Allied Health Professional Adult ADHD Team
NHS AfC: Band 7
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Job overview
About the role:
Are you a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, or Nurse with a keen interest in neurodiversity, and a willingness and desire to progress in your career? If so, we want to hear from you. Our Adult ADHD team, providing assessment and pre-and post-diagnostic support to adults across North West London is seeking a new team member to join this exciting new service. This is an opportunity to help us shape and develop the future of the team and to work as part of a growing and developing service.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Main duties of the job
As a practitioner psychologist, nurse or Allied Health Professional within the Adult ADHD team, you will be responsible for contributing to multi-disciplinary screening ADHD assessments as well as with pre and post-diagnostic support. We will enable you to develop expertise in assessments and interventions, alongside drawing on your skills and knowledge of autism to contribute to assessment and pre-and post-diagnostic support.
Our ideal candidate has experience of working with neurodiverse individuals and is enthusiastic about working to improve services for adults with or suspected ADHD across North West London. We can also offer training in diagnostic tools if you do not already have this, and access to clinical and professional supervision to enable you to develop your clinical skills to work with autistic people.
Working for our organisation
About the Trust:
CNWL is a major provider of Community and Mental health services across the South East of England. We employ approximately 7,500 staff who provides more than 300 different health and social care services across 150 sites and a number of other community settings.
Our Vision:
The trust vision is Wellbeing for life. We work in partnership with all who use our services to improve health and wellbeing, and this is not different within our ADHD programme with work to embed peer support and co development as the cornerstone of the service we develop. We are implementing a scheme to ensure that we are offering work opportunities to those form our non-diverse communities.
What we offer:
We offer a flexible working programme and believe that we need to support you both at work and at home to deliver the best health care we can. We will support you to develop your skills, and invest in you, you will have an opportunity to access specialist training, supervision and mentorship that will help you progress in your career.
About our team:
You will be joining a new and evolving team that already has highly skilled and experienced staff who can provided a safe and supportive place for you to develop and to support the service users we work with. This is an AHP led service with a senior management team made up of skilled and experience OTs, SLT’s and Psychologist.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Summary
- To work as a qualified band 7 practitioner psychologist/Allied Health Professional/Nurse within the multidisciplinary Adult ADHD Service
- To be an autonomous practitioner assessing service users, defining needs in relation to and carrying out autism assessments, and maintaining clinical records.
- To be practice guided and supported by senior staff within the clinical area when necessary
- To be responsible for own continuous professional development; build on previous experience enabling further development of clinical, administrative and leadership competencies.
- To supervise and support more junior colleagues.
- To be involved in service audit projects.
- To attend relevant departmental meetings and in-service training opportunities.
Role Responsibilities:
Working relationships and communication requirements of your job –
- To provide specialised and comprehensive ADHD assessments for service users who may have needs including complex physical, psychological and sensory impairment, potentially presenting with distress, mental health issues and/or behaviours that challenge.
- To work flexibly as needed to support the multi-disciplinary team.
- To educate and advise service users, their families and carers, and staff teams about the person’s difficulties and needs, and work collaboratively to develop suitable management plans.
- To be an active member of the multidisciplinary team working collaboratively with other members of the team and recognising the skills and expertise of others.
- To be proactive in personal professional development.
- To provide support and supervision to more junior colleagues, assistants and students.
- To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
- To maintain clinical records as an autonomous practitioner.
- The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
- The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an on-going basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Service and the Organisation.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A professional qualification in Clinical/Counselling Psychology/Occupational Therapy/Speech and Language Therapy/Nursing
- Registration to practice in the UK with the HCPC/NMC in accordance with professional background
Desirable criteria
- Further qualifications relevant to autism assessment
- Training in Sensory Integration techniques
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed interpersonal skills enabling therapeutic alliances to be developed & maintained with service users who have multiple & complex needs
- Basic word processing and IT skills
- Ability to work autonomously, on own initiative and under pressure to meet deadlines; & to make and action decisions independently within agreed time frames
- Skills in producing timely, accurate and informative reports and notes
- Excellent organisational skills to manage the demands of the role, including prioritisation of workload, delegation skills
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to regularly identify and undertake appropriate learning and development opportunities as part of ongoing CPD
- Ability to ensure the application of risk assessment and risk management strategies which facilitates a service user’s management
- Knowledge and application of national policies and procedures (relevant to the client group)
- Knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures
- Knowledge of working cross-culturally
Desirable criteria
- Skills in developing and delivering training
- Skills in supervising more junior members of staff
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with ADHD
- Experience of working in a multi-professional team.
- Experience of working within a multi-agency environment.
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural context
- Experience of participating in audit / research projects
Desirable criteria
- Experience of ADHD assessment using standardised tools, i.e. DIVA
- Experience of offering post diagnostic support to adults with ADHD
- Experience of teaching/training others
General
Essential criteria
- Commitment to treating service users with respect and dignity at all times.
- Excellent interpersonal skills – including observation, motivating, listening, empathy and counselling skills
- Ability to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions in the context of best available evidence
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
- Nicholas Bygraves
- Job title
- Deputy Borough Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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