Nurse Medical Prescriber (NMP)

Job overview

Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic Non-Medical Prescriber?  Do you have a professional qualification as an RMN/RN or RNLD?   Are you ready to be part of a thriving team as part of our Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), now known as Children and Young People's Services (CYPS)?  Are you passionate about delivering excellent care to our young people and their families?  If yes, then we'd love to hear from you.

You would be joining a dynamic, busy, and successful service and multi-disciplinary team within CYPS Community Team Northeast Hampshire (formally known as CAMHS Aldershot) for four days per week.  We are a reflective and highly supportive team ensuring we put our young people and families at the heart of what we do.   As part of our i-THRVE framework, this team is focused on Getting more help.   You would be offering assessments and interventions to children and young people experiencing psychological distress as well as providing  support for the Clinic Duty System.

You’ll have opportunities to supervise, support and develop junior staff members, develop positive working relationships with our Mindworks Surrey Children's Learning Disability Team and our own Neurodevelopmental Team.  There will be opportunities for specific learning disability and neurodevelopmental training.

Main duties of the job

We're looking for a new team member with experience in assessment and treatment of CYP with neurodevelopmental disorders, and/or mental health needs with a non-medical prescribing qualification.  We are ideally seeking applications from those with learning disability experience in order enhancing our offer to the young people in our locality.

Deliver on the following key areas and lead team functioning with particular focus on;

• Early identification, management and intervention for CYP with anxiety, depression, ADHD.
• Support on the provision of prescribing within the team.
• Interface with relevant promoting connectivity and aiding effective care planning between services.
• Case load holder of CYP as part of the medical team offer within CT.
• Provide supervision and training to other qualified nurses and student nurses.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please check the job description for more information on the requirements for this job.  If you have further questions about the role which the advert and job description do not answer, please contact us.