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I am a mental health nurse, and I work as Operational Team Lead for CAMHS Bee U Neurodevelopmental Service. I also work for the Beacon Autism and ADHD Clinic alongside Professor Aurakzai. I specialise in the assessment and diagnosis of children and adults with ADHD and autism. I am trained in the following: Autism Clinical Interview for Adults (ACIA), Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised (ADI-R), Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and the UK Adult ADHD Network. I have extensive experience in working in neurodiversity with complex co-occurring difficulties including mental health. I also specialise in delivering post diagnostic interventions and am accredited in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) supporting neurodiverse children and adults with a strong interest in complex trauma and Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). I am currently undertaking my Nurse Prescribing qualification.

I am a senior learning disability nurse working with children and young people with moderate to profound learning disabilities in Birmingham. Often these children and young people have a concurrent diagnosis of ASD. I am also a non-medical prescriber and have a Master’s degree in Advanced Clinical Practice.

I am an ADHD Specialist Nurse Practitioner and Independent Non-Medical Prescriber with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Having begun my career in healthcare more than 20 years ago, I have worked in a variety of roles within mental health, including several years working in Liaison Psychiatry undertaking mental health assessments in Emergency Departments for both adults and young people. Since joining the Neurodevelopmental Specialist Service (NeSS) in Nottinghamshire, I have worked closely with colleagues to reshape and redesign the delivery of shared care services across the county.

My name is Mike. I am the proud parent of neuro-diverse children, now adults. I qualified as an RMN in 1988, found CAMHS in 1990 and have stayed for the last 33 years, 20 of those years working in Youth Offending and 4 years in Substance Misuse. I became a Non-Medical Prescriber in 2014. I was recognised as an advanced nurse prescriber in 2019 for my diagnostic and prescribing expertise. As you will be aware prevalence of neurodiversity is high in these populations, I am now moving to work solely in the adult ADHD field.

I am a Registered Adult Nurse and Registered Children’s Nurse with 30 years experience in healthcare. A large part of my NHS career was spent as a specialist paediatric pain nurse at a large teaching hospital. I have also had NHS experience in adult and paediatric hospital and community settings. Currently I work in the NHS as a Specialist nurse for the Neurodevelopmental pathway. I have a neurodiverse daughter aged 16 diagnosed with ADHD and autism, my personal experience has given me huge admiration for all parents of neurodiverse children. Day to day can often be exhausting but huge rewards on the good days make it all worthwhile.
I am also an advocate for the trans community and have devoted the last seven years to gaining knowledge and awareness of gender incongruence and its treatment. I am a member of BAGIS (British Association of Gender Identity Specialists) and WPATH (World Professional Association of Gender Identity Specialists).

I have worked within Health and Social care for 33 years, 29 years with the Scottish Health and Social care partnership, as a registered care coordinator. Since 2020, I have worked within the Health and Justice System. I currently work within a team of psychiatrists in HMP Hewell, a male remand prison, where I provide mental health care.
I have social care qualifications as a supervisor in a care setting and additional qualifications and experience in transactional analysis, which is a branch of psychology that specifically looks at the way we interact with others.
For 7 years I ran a transgender safeguarding service in Birmingham, and I also facilitate a parents' support group and an adult trans support group.
My partner and I have delivered lectures to Birmingham University on transgender awareness and access to healthcare. We offer a similar training for GPs and allied health and social service professionals.
As a trans female, my life journey has not been easy. Lifelong neurodiversity has added many challenges which I am now beginning to unfold.