Children & Young 's ADHD Assessment Clinician

Children & Young People's ADHD Assessment Clinician

We are expanding our Children & Young Peoples ADHD Assessment Service and are seeking skilled clinicians to complete high quality ADHD assessments for children and young people aged 5-18.

You willplay a key role in delivering timely, safe, and evidence based diagnosticassessments, working closely with Consultant Psychiatrists/Paediatricians, MDTcolleagues, and families. This is a dedicated assessment role, with a strong focus on structured clinical practice, consistent decision making, and clearreport writing.

This post isideal for clinicians with CAMHS, paediatrics, mental health, orneurodevelopmental experience who enjoy detailed assessment work and MDTcollaboration.

Base: Worcestershire (Worcester/Redditch) + hybrid working

What You'll Be Doing

• Deliver structured ADHD assessments including developmental history, functional impact, and differential considerations.
• Review questionnaires, school reports, and prior clinical information to support triage and readiness for assessment.
• Gather and integrate multi-informant evidence (home, school, professionals) within agreed governance processes.
• Present cases in MDT and contribute to safe diagnostic decision-making supported by senior medical oversight.
• Provide sensitive, clear feedback to children, young people, and families.
• Produce high quality, well reasoned diagnostic reports within agreed time frames.
• Identify safeguarding or clinical risk issues and elevate appropriately.
• Maintain accurate clinical documentation that supports continuity of care and service performance.
• Contribute to audit, incident learning, and service development.
• Participate in supervision and maintain CPD relevant to neurodevelopmental assessment.

Medication decisions are handled by designated prescribers; the assessors focus is high quality diagnostic practice.

Vertis Health is a GP owned provider delivering safe, evidence basedneurodevelopmental and mental health services across Worcestershire. Our teamswork within strong clinical governance frameworks, with a focus on safe,evidence based care and continuous improvement. We are committed to reducingwaits, supporting families, and ensuring consistent, high quality assessments.

To deliver high-quality ADHD assessments for children and young people, contributing to safe and timely diagnostic decision-making through structured clinical assessment, multi-informant evidence gathering, MDT discussion, and high-quality reporting. The postholder will provide clear outcomes and practical recommendations, working within the commissioned scope and agreed clinical governance arrangements.

Why this role exists

This post strengthens capacity and quality within the CYP ADHD pathway by providing dedicated assessment expertise, robust documentation, and consistent clinical standards. It supports timely access to assessment while ensuring clinical risk, safeguarding, and diagnostic governance are upheld.

About the Services

The services currently include:

• Adult ADHD assessment and ongoing clinical reviews, with medication titration delivered under appropriate prescribing governance and shared care with GPs where agreed.
• Adult ASD diagnostic assessment pathway delivered through an MDT model.
• Children and Young People (CYP) ADHD an assessment and diagnosis pathway (with onward treatment and medication pathways subject to commissioning and wider system arrangements).
• Children and Young People (CYP) ASD a diagnostic assessment pathway delivered through a multidisciplinary model, aligned to national guidance and local commissioning arrangements.

Service scope for this post (CYP ADHD): The CYP ADHD pathway provides assessment and diagnosis
. The postholder is expected to work within the commissioned scope and agreed clinical governance arrangements, contributing to pathway improvement without over-promising provision outside current remit
.

Key working relationships

• Neurodevelopmental Service Lead / Head of Services
• Consultant Psychiatrist / Paediatrician / designated senior medical oversight
• Operations and Business Intelligence colleagues (performance, waiting list, reporting)
• MDT clinicians across CYP ND pathways (psychology, nursing, SALT, OT, assistants as applicable)
• Safeguarding leads and governance colleagues
• Education partners (information gathering only, within consent/governance)

Main duties and responsibilities

• Deliver structured CYP ADHD assessments in line with service standards, including developmental history, functional impact, and differential considerations.
• Review pre-assessment information (questionnaires, school evidence, prior records) to support appropriate triage and readiness for assessment.
• Gather and integrate multi-informant evidence across settings (home and education), ensuring consent and information governance requirements are met.
• Present cases to MDT and contribute to diagnostic decision-making within governance, ensuring conclusions are evidence-based and…