Trustwide ADHD Coach
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 08/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves delivering person-centred coaching interventions to adults with ADHD, including individual sessions, group programmes, and workshops. The coach will support individuals in developing strategies for organisation, planning, emotional regulation, and overall wellbeing. As a senior lived experience practitioner, the post holder will also line manage and supervise an Adult ADHD Peer Support Worker. The role requires collaboration with a multidisciplinary team and contribution to service development and quality improvement.
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy.
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- Educated to degree or has gained equivalent level of work experience.
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- Recognised coaching qualification at Level 3 or above (ILM, EMCC, ICF, Association for Coaching or equivalent).
Desirable criteria
- Mental health related
- qualification i.e.
- Mental Health - First
- Aid, Coaching.
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- ADHD-specific coaching qualification.
- Personal lived experience of ADHD diagnosed in adulthood.
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- Experience supporting neurodivergent adults.
- Experience supporting adults during ADHD medication titration.
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- Experience working within NHS services.
- NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy.
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- Educated to degree or has gained equivalent level of work experience.
- -
- Recognised coaching qualification at Level 3 or above (ILM, EMCC, ICF, Association for Coaching or equivalent).
- Mental health related
- qualification i.e.
- Mental Health - First
- Aid, Coaching.
- -
- ADHD-specific coaching qualification.
- Personal lived experience of ADHD diagnosed in adulthood.
- -
- Experience supporting neurodivergent adults.
- Experience supporting adults during ADHD medication titration.
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- Experience working within NHS services.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Trustwide ADHD Coach
The closing date is 08 October 2026
Job summary
The Adult ADHD Coach will deliver person-centred coaching interventions through individual coaching sessions, group programmes and workshops, supporting individuals to develop sustainable approaches to organisation, planning, emotional regulation, wellbeing, communication, self-advocacy and everyday functioning.
Main duties of the job
As the senior lived experience practitioner within the Adult ADHD coaching pathway, the post holder will line manage and professionally supervise the Adult ADHD Peer Support Worker (Band 3), supporting their development and ensuring peer support is delivered safely, effectively and in accordance with peer support values.
The post holder will work collaboratively with psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, pharmacists, peer support workers and wider multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure coaching complements clinical care and contributes to holistic, strengths-based and neurodiversity-affirming support.
The Adult ADHD Coach will also contribute to service development, co-production, quality improvement, training and the ongoing development of ADHD coaching within the Trust.
About us
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in
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