Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-NUR-7358628-LF
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Michael Rutter Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
CAMHS Clinical Nurse Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 7
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) are seeking to recruit a Clinical Nurse Specialist to provide specialist assessment and interventions to children, young people and families, and consultation to other agencies or services, as part of a multi-disciplinary Mental Health of Intellectual Disability Service (MHID). The postholder will provide specialist nursing input to young people with highly complex presentations, including Intellectual Disability, neurodevelopmental disorders and behaviours that challenge. We are looking for a motivated and committed individual who will have experience working with children and young people and will need to meet the criteria detailed in the person specification. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a well-established specialist service ensuring that the nursing skills and expertise contribute to assessment and interventions. Development of the nursing role on the team is a priority. There are a range of teaching and training opportunities. The team leads a national service for young people with Prader Willi Syndrome which all team members are involved with.
Main duties of the job
• The successful candidate will be involved with multidisciplinary assessments of complex young people who have Intellectual Disability, neurodevelopmental disorders, and mental health and/or behavioural comorbidities. Functional assessments and development of PBS plans will be a key area of responsibility.
• Their other main duties include acting as a care coordinator taking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans, assessing and monitoring risk and drawing up appropriate risk management plans.
• Report writing, as a specialist service, is a key component of the work.
• ADI and ADOS assessments are undertaken with most of the cases the team sees. Training can be provided.
Working for our organisation
About our locations:
Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin Park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants. The team is based at the Michael Rutter Centre, Maudsley Hospital and will be moving into the new Pears Maudsley Centre later in the year.
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance. (This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a brief summary of the job description with the detailed description outlined in the Key Responsibilities:
• Providing MDT assessments and interventions including review of documents, history taking, ADI, ADOS, school and/or home visits
• Contributing to case discussions and formulations with MDT and external agencies
• Undertaking Functional assessments of behaviours that challenge
• Developing Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) plans
• Attending multiagency meetings
• Report writing
• Involvement with safeguarding reviews, school reviews, transition planning
• Supervision of student nurses
• Teaching
• Training
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RNLD
- All applicants will require professional registration with a statutory body. (A/I)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and ability to function as a specialist practitioner with children and young people, including those with Intellectual Disability or Neurodevelopmental Disorders (A/I)
- Ability to undertake functional assessments and develop positive behavioural support plans
- Evidence of good practice in child and adolescent mental health assessments, assessments of behaviour and performance, family functioning (A/I)
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Evidence of using child protection in practice effectively (A/I)
- Ability to work respectfully as part of an MDT
- Good written and verbal presentation skills (A/I)
- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with severe behaviour that challenges (A/I)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sarah H Bernard
- Job title
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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