# ADHD Assessor **Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Brent **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: £55,524 to £62,652 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9333-26-1423?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_be6677e7-ba8 ## Description We are seeking two enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced Nurses or Allied Health Professionals to join our Adult ADHD Service within Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for clinicians with a passion for neurodevelopmental services to contribute to the assessment and support of adults referred to the ADHD pathway. The post holder will play a key role within the multidisciplinary team, undertaking specialist assessments, contributing to formulation and diagnostic decision-making, and supporting service users throughout their diagnostic journey. As a Band 7 Practitioner, you will be expected to work with a high degree of autonomy within your professional scope of practice, contributing specialist knowledge, service development initiatives, and participating in service evaluation and quality improvement projects. The successful candidate will be expected to undertake approximately 6-7 new ADHD assessments per week, alongside 4-5 feedback calls, ensuring high-quality, person-centred care is delivered. **Main duties of the job** - Undertaking approximately 6-7 comprehensive ADHD assessments and 4-5 follow-up appointments per week, contributing to diagnostic decision-making and personalised care planning. - Providing specialist advice, psychoeducation, and support to service users, families, carers, GPs, and other professionals regarding ADHD, treatment options, and care pathways. - Participating in triage, screening, information gathering, risk assessment, and clinical formulation to support effective assessment and diagnosis. - Providing supervision, support, teaching, and mentorship. - Contributing to service development, quality improvement initiatives. - Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of ADHD assessment, neurodevelopmental conditions. - Working in accordance with Trust policies, professional standards, and regulatory requirements, ensuring service users receive safe, effective, and person-centred care. **Benefits** - Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year per annum inc HCAS - Permanent, full-time contract **Person Specification** - Education and Qualifications: + Essential: 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: Further qualifications relevant to autism assessment, Training in Sensory Integration techniques. - Experience: + Essential: 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: 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. - Skills, Knowledge and abilities: + Essential: 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. + Desirable: Skills in developing and delivering training, Skills in supervising more junior members of staff. ## Skills ### Required - ADHD assessment - clinical formulation - communication skills - autonomy - organisational skills ### Nice to have - autism assessment - Sensory Integration techniques - ADHD assessment using standardised tools - post-diagnostic support - teaching/training others --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9333-26-1423?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)