ADHD Assessor (Band 6)

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Make a real difference in the lives of individuals and families living with ADHD. We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Band 6 ADHD Assessor to join our specialist team, delivering highquality assessment and postdiagnostic support within a community setting.

In this role, you will carry out ADHD assessments and provide postdiagnostic support to individuals and groups, managing a specialist caseload and maintaining accurate clinical records. Youll work with professional supervision available to support formulation and diagnostic decisionmaking, while also contributing to continuous professional development, clinical audit, research activity and service improvement. The post holder will support the development of others through training, clinical supervision and supporting students, helping to strengthen and grow the service.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced clinician who is committed to evidencebased practice, collaborative working and delivering positive outcomes for service users.

Base

You will be primarily based at St Martins Hospital , with a hybrid working model in place. The role will also require the ability to travel to locations across Wiltshire, B&NES and Swindon as needed.

• Deliver assessment and postdiagnostic support for individuals and groups as part of the designated ADHD team, with access to appropriate clinical supervision for formulation and diagnosis
• Provide specialist consultation and advice to mental health teams and partner agencies supporting the client group
• Maintain accurate clinical records and manage caseloads using agreed systems, contributing to agreed team duties as required
• Participate in clinical supervision, team meetings and trustwide ADHD service meetings

• Practice in line with the relevant professional code of conduct and maintain registration with the appropriate body
• Contribute to the development and review of local and trustwide policies and procedures relating to ADHD diagnostic services
• Maintain high standards of clinical practice through ongoing CPD, networking and collaborative working
• Participate in annual performance appraisal and service development activities

Please see job description attached for a full list of job responsibilities.

As an ADHD Assessor (Band 6), you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £39,959 - £48,117 FTE (Band 6 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 lifes 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 youre 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

• A recognised professional qualification in Occupational Therapy, Nursing or Speech and Language Therapy
• Current HCPC or NMC registration
• Significant postregistration experience within frontline adult mental health services, including assessment and delivery of interventions
• Experience working within an ADHD service or mental health team supporting individuals with ADHD
• Strong understanding of ADHD assessment processes and relevant support pathways
• Effective team player with excellent communication and liaison skills
• Well organised with strong administrative and timemanagement abilities
• Compassionate and empathetic approach when engaging with service users
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload effectively in a pressurised environment
• Confident working both independently and autonomously, with good selfawareness and emotional resilience

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.Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As youd 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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