CAMHS Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist Risk Management

Job description
Are you a Clinical Nurse Specialist with significant experience at band 7 and great communication skills. Do you have the tenacity and skills to hit the ground running and impact positively the lives of young people needing Mental Health support?

Merton Tier 3 Team is an experienced and supportive multidisciplinary team specialising in the provision of high-quality assessments and evidence-based treatments for young people presenting to the service with moderate to severe mental health needs and high-risk profiles. We work closely with colleagues to provide cohesive care centred around the needs of young people and their families.

We are looking for a committed CAMHS Clinical Nurse Specialist who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, and who is also interested wider service development initiatives.

The role will be to provide a flexible, timely response to young people and their families who require urgent Mental Health assessments, and /or robust risk management. The postholder will have a caseload within the Multi-disciplinary Tier 3 CAMHS Service at Merton T3

The children and young people will be known to Merton CAMHS or may be urgently referred by GP, Schools or Social Workers. The role facilitates joint working with team consultants and therapists from the tier 3 teams, Children’s emergency care team (CEC’s), A&E and SLP Children’s out of hours service, working with young people deemed at risk.

You will feel comfortable taking a lead when required to co-ordinate multiagency response to risk management and you will be skilled in building collaborative and meaningful working relationships with colleagues.

This role is open to qualified Nurses with the following:
• Qualification as Registered Mental Health Nurse registered with the NMC.
• Experience of working with children and young people in a variety of settings
• Experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team
• The ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community
• The ability to efficiently manage a high-risk caseload
• Knowledge and skills in risk management and safeguarding
• The ability to deliver a range of evidence-based interventions

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Henrietta Dewsnap Job title: Service Manager Merton CAMHS Email address: henrietta.dewsnap@swlstg.nhs.uk

Patricia Thornton, Clinical Psychologist and Tier 3 Lead: patricia.thornton@swlsg.nhs.uk