ADHD prescriber

In this role, your working week is centred on guiding children and their families through the medication pathway following an ADHD diagnosis, providing careful, evidence based prescribing alongside consistent support and reassurance. Your work begins with reviewing new ADHD diagnoses, ensuring you have a clear understanding of the clinical formulation, assessment outcomes, and any relevant physical health information. From there, you'll plan and calculate appropriate medication titration schedules, considering the individual needs of each child, clinical guidelines, and family circumstances. A significant part of your time is spent in medication initiation appointments. These are thorough, child and family focused meetings where you introduce treatment options, explain how the medication works, discuss potential benefits and side effects, and outline what the titration process will look like over the coming weeks. You'll ensure families feel informed, listened to, and confident before treatment begins. On an initiation day, you may see up to 6 patient medication initiations, each requiring careful preparation, clear explanation, and thoughtful clinical decision making. As children progress through titration, your week will also include frequent medication reviews. These appointments focus on monitoring response, adjusting doses, reviewing physical health observations, and discussing feedback from families and schools. Review days may involve up to 8 patients follow up appointments, building towards more stable treatment and a routine six monthly review schedule once medication is optimised. Alongside appointments, you'll actively manage your diary and appointment frequency, ensuring reviews are scheduled at clinically appropriate intervals and that families are supported at each stage of the process. You'll respond to queries, review monitoring forms, and make timely adjustments where needed, maintaining continuity and safety throughout treatment. Building trusting, compassionate relationships with children and their families is central to your role. Over time, families come to recognise you as a consistent and reliable professional who understands their child, listens carefully to concerns, and works collaboratively with them to achieve the best possible outcomes. Your week also includes accurate clinical documentation, ensuring all prescribing decisions and monitoring outcomes are recorded clearly and in line with legal and organisational requirements. You'll communicate effectively with the wider multidisciplinary team, including clinicians involved in diagnosis and ongoing care, to ensure joined up, holistic support. Protected time for clinical supervision, reflection, and professional development is built into your role, supporting safe practice and ongoing growth. You'll also have opportunities to contribute to service development, helping shape and improve ADHD medication pathways and patient experience. Overall, your working week balances high quality clinical prescribing with continuity of care, autonomy with support, and structured clinical work with meaningful, long term relationships with families.