Advanced Nurser Prescriber

**The Oakdale Group**

Oakdale was established nearly twenty five years ago and is highly regarded as a professional therapy provider. We are a not-for-profit community based organisation and our team is united by a commitment to provide flexible, bespoke, evidence based and high quality clinical services to meet the particular needs of each of our clients as well as the requirements of commissioners for an appropriate, collaborative, value-for-money service.

The Oakdale Group provides a wide range of specialist assessments, including for autism, ADHD, and developmental trauma. Oakdale also provides a wide range of psychological therapies for children, young people and adults. Many of our services are commissioned by the NHS, Local Authorities and schools, and include services for NHS staff. Others are accessed by members of the public who pay for them privately, through medical insurance or through our charitable arm.

Oakdale has Clinical Centres in Harrogate, Leeds and Halifax and also delivers services from other consulting rooms in the North of England and remotely on a nationwide basis.

Oakdale’s outstanding multidisciplinary team consistently receives excellent feedback from clients and commissioners alike. Oakdale values its clinical and administrative teams and strives to ensure that both our clients and our colleagues are at the heart of all that we do.

**The Role**

Oakdale is developing a new Prescribing Service for children and adults who have a diagnosis of ADHD. As such, Oakdale is looking for a Nurse Practitioner / Non-Medical Prescriber specialising in ADHD within Oakdale’s neurodevelopmental pathway. The role will involve carrying out medication reviews and under the direction of a Consultant Psychiatrist you will make independent prescribing decisions for service users with ADHD. The team currently works with young people and adults who have had some of the longest waits for neurodevelopmental assessment. Your role will be to support the neurodevelopmental team, initiating medication and providing ongoing monitoring.

You will need to hold an independent and supplementary non-medical prescribing qualification and will have experience of working in a specialist ADHD service / with adults or children with ADHD.

The role also involves:

- Working within a multidisciplinary team environment including psychology and consultant psychiatry to provide a specialist clinical assessment and intervention ADHD service to children, young people, their families and adults where discussions about treatment options for ADHD are effectively facilitated.
- Writing prescriptions for controlled drugs and other medications where appropriate, in line with NICE guidance, ensuring;
- Treatment is tailored effectively to the individual needs of the child, young person or adult
- Familiarity with the pharmacokinetic profiles of all the short
- and long-acting preparations available for ADHD, taking account of relevant variations to avoid reduced effect or excessive adverse effects.
- Providing initial assessments to review mental health, social circumstances and physical health
- Generating prescriptions using appropriate prescribing formularies and monitoring and reviewing thereafter regarding the effectiveness, continued appropriateness and safety of the prescribing intervention.
- Providing and coordinating medication management, which may include appropriate physical health checks and monitoring.
- Supporting the transfer of prescribing and monitoring of ADHD medication to primary care sector through knowledge of Shared Care Protocol arrangements
- Contributing to governance and audit, ensuring that service delivery focuses on the quality agenda and that dignity, privacy and respect is afforded at all times to service users.
- Providing accurate and timely performance data on service activity as required
- Ensuring that appropriate systems are in place and in accordance with local policy such as Yellow Card reporting and monitoring MHRA drug safety updates, and reporting of remedial action in situations of adverse drug reactions
- Supporting the multi-disciplinary team and encouraging effective team working, implementing and maintaining high professional standards within and outside the team
- Supporting the development of junior staff, including student nurses.
- Responsible for the supervision and appraisal of staff members of the team

**Person Specification**

Essential
- Registered Nurse with current registration (mental health /LD/ Adult) appropriate to the job role. This may be Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
- Degree/diploma level supplemented by specialist qualification, training, experience, courses to masters level
- Evidence of post registration training in relevant service area
- Supplementary/Independent Non-Medical Prescribing Module (level 3)
- Extensive post qualifying experience in relevant service area
- Experience of supervising staff and students
- Able to manage a caseload of patien