Job overview

Our service provides specialist support to children and young people with ADHD and autism, offering child centred assessment, diagnostic input and ongoing medication management for children and young people aged 5–18 who are registered with a local GP.

The post holder will work as a key member of the team, contributing to the assessment, diagnostic decision making and ongoing clinical management of children and young people with ADHD. The post holder will undertake medication reviews and provide safe, effective prescribing in line with evidence based practice and local governance.

A core element of the role is to support and strengthen shared care arrangements, working closely with GP practices and partner agencies to optimise outcomes. The post holder will provide advice, consultation and support to children, young people, families and schools, and liaise with colleagues across health, education, social care and the voluntary sector.

The post holder will contribute to clinical leadership within the service, including supervision and support to junior colleagues and will support service improvement activity to enhance pathways and processes.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a motivated clinician with strong knowledge and skills in supporting children and young people with ADHD and related neurodevelopmental needs. The post holder will work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver high quality assessment, care planning and ongoing clinical management.

The post holder will demonstrate excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and will communicate sensitively and effectively with children, young people, families and professionals, including where there may be barriers to engagement, understanding or acceptance. The post holder will apply inclusive, strength-based approaches that support participation and help reduce health inequalities, maintaining awareness of stigma and its impact on access to care.

The post holder will be confident in working with complexity, managing clinical risk and uncertainty and using digital systems and technology to support safe, efficient care. The post holder will contribute to supervision, training and service development to improve outcomes for children, young people and families.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care