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CAMHS Nurse – Autism and Learning Disabilities
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent: Full time
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Job ref
260-TP-949
Employer
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Tavistock Centre
Town
London
Salary
£44,806 - £53,134 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
20/07/2025 23:59

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CAMHS Nurse – Autism and Learning Disabilities

NHS AfC: Band 6

It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

 

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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

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Job overview

The role of the Community CAMHS Nurse in the Autism and Learning Disabilities Team will be to provide CAMHS nursing input to young people aged between 12-18 years in the Autism Assessment pathway and to young people aged 3-25 in the Autism and Learning Disability therapies pathway. 

This will involve intensive working as part of an MDT Team, with a variety of clients in clinic and community settings, including schools. You will provide in-reach to inpatient and residential settings where appropriate and have a key role in relation to local area Dynamic Support Registers and the  care, education and treatment review process for young people.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for a defined caseload of clients, delivering a range of evidence-based interventions within a multi-disciplinary team and will receive regular clinical supervision from a senior member of the Service. You will also be expected to work jointly with other members of the team offering specialist CAMHS advice, consultation and training as required.

You will have a keen interest in improving outcomes for young people with Autism and/or Learning Disability.  Training in the assessment of Autism will be provided alongside access to the training and CPD opportunities working at the Tavistock and Portman enables

Working for our organisation

The Autism and Learning Disabilities Team, alongside other specialist CAMHS services, is part of the Child Complex Service. The team provides specialist assessment and treatment for young people up to the age of 25 with Autism and learning disabilities, who experience psychological difficulties linked to their condition. The team provides two specialist services:

  • A multi-disciplinary autism diagnostic service for children and young people who have mental health needs and social communication and interaction needs up to the age of 18
  • Psychological therapies for autistic children, young adults and their families and for those with developmental learning disabilities.

The autism diagnostic service offers a collaborative diagnostic assessment for young people in North Central London and Hertfordshire. We usually see adolescents and young adults, with some parts of the assessment process taking place in schools/colleges as appropriate. The assessment includes brief, post-diagnostic psycho-educative support where relevant.

The therapies service is for children, young people and adults up to the age of 25. There is a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary working and broad biopsychosocial approaches to supporting the client group as well as their families and supporting networks.  This service includes a range of therapeutic interventions. Approaches are adapted to meet the unique needs of each person and their family.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse with up-to-date NMC registration
  • Post-qualification experience within acute or Community Mental health setting (Adult Mental Health or CAMHS)
Desirable criteria
  • Training in Autism Assessment tools (ADOS/3DI/ADI-R)
  • Advanced Clinical Training in a therapeutic modality (e.g. CBT, DBT, Family Therapy, PBS)

Experiance

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working independently
  • Experience as a care co-ordinator
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in the community
  • Nursing work with children and adolescents with mental health problems
  • Experience of working with children and young people with Autism

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of a commitment to gaining an understanding of the professional-patient relationship
  • Evidence of the applicant’s interest in and development of therapeutic clinical skills
  • Good record keeping
  • Ability to work and consult with multi agency colleagues and across multi-agency boundaries in a sensitive manner
  • Negotiating on behalf of young people and their families

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • An understanding and appreciation of the unique challenges associated with autism and/or LD for children, young people and their families
  • Knowledge and appreciation of the roles of other CAMHS workers and other professional groups providing medical and therapeutic services in services for children with disabilities
  • Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to Safeguarding

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Myooran Canagaratnam
Job title
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 8938 2668
Additional information

Tina Read

Clinical Service Manager - CYP and Families

 [email protected] 

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