Role: Main area Non Medical Prescriber Grade Band 8a Contract
Fixed term: 3 months (NA) Hours
Contract: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (NA) Job ref 828-PROVIDE4091
Employer: Provide CIC Employer type: NHS Site 900 The Crescent Town Colchester Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 08/06/2026 23:59
Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated ADHD Non-Medical Prescriber to lead and further develop the ADHD pathway within our Community Paediatric Service. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled clinician to play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based care for children and young people (CYP) with ADHD and associated neurodevelopmental needs.
The post holder will provide highly specialist clinical leadership in ADHD assessment, medication management, physical health monitoring, and ongoing care planning. Working as an autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to all aspects of the ADHD pathway, including screening, risk assessment, transition planning, and service development.
The successful candidate will act as a specialist source of pharmaceutical and medicines management expertise across children and young people’s services, supporting clinicians and wider system partners. You will play a key role in improving patient outcomes, enhancing patient safety, and ensuring safe, effective, and evidence-based use of medicines.
We are looking for a proactive and adaptable clinician with excellent communication skills, a strong understanding of ADHD pharmacological management, and a passion for improving services for children, young people, and families.
Main duties of the job
- Delivering the role of highly specialist ADHD Non-Medical Prescriber to lead on the ADHD pathway in our community paediatric service.
- Providing specialist expert pharmaceutical information and advice to multidisciplinary teams (e.g., nurses, school nurses, health visitors and consultants), particularly within children and young people services and where applicable to others involved in a patient’s care.
- Leading on and providing complex medicines management advice and specialist direction within services for children and young people with ADHD
- Focusing on outcomes, delivering improved benefits and value for patients through improved patient experience, increased patient safety and mitigating of risks related to medicines.
- Supporting and contributing to clinical audits.
- Working with quality and patient safety teams to review quality and risk management issues related to pharmacy and medicine management.
- Responsible for leading the ADHD medication service/pathway delivery
- Accountability for clinical standards and outcomes
- Provide input into the ICS-wide medicines strategy
- Influence over service performance / KPI’s
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A Highly Respected, award-winning health and social care provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times:
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- To contribute to clinical governance and risk management related to medicines across the organisation. This includes undertaking audits to their completion (i.e., full audit cycle), making recommendations and following these up to completion though discussion with the relevant senior staff outside the Medicines Management Team.
- Lead on identified patient safety alerts in addressing, implementing, and monitoring these. Identify learning from medication incidents/errors and as a result, be active in identifying and embedding improvements to medicines use. Undertake risk assessment and review these. Independent and team working in both a clinical and managerial role.
- Delivery of ADHD care, including ADHD medication management and physical health assessments.
- Show initiative, be adaptable and able to follow direction, and be a good team player with excellent communication skills.
- Provide leadership on and contribute clinically to all aspects of the ADHD pathway, including screening, assessment, psychoeducation, medication management, behavioural management, care planning, risk assessment and management, and transition to adult services.
- Contribute to further ADHD pathway development.
- Undertake appropriate training to comply with the job role. Be responsible for own continuing professional development in line with professional requirements this includes identifying own learning needs.
- Participate in regular clinical supervision and peer review of work to ensure consistent clinical standards and to help develop individual pharmacy staff.
Essential
Essential criteria
- MPharm, BSc Nursing, or equivalent
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council or Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Postgraduate clinical certificate/diploma or equivalent
Desirable criteria
Essential
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
Desirable criteria
How will we contact you?
- All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.
- As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for an interview. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for an interview on this particular occasion. Unsuccessful internal candidates can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
- If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net
- If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after the interview, their details are provided within the advert.
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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, we will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.
We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID-19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
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Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.
Disability
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Work Trials
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We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant:
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
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