Highly Specialist CAMHS Mental Health Nurse
1 x Band 8a, 1.0 WTE Fixed Term Contracts (12 months) Registered Mental Health Nurse
Role will be seconded to Camden Local Authority
Are you looking for an opportunity to build on your experience as a senior clinician and clinical leader? If so, we have a great opportunity for an experienced and dynamic qualified Registered Mental Health Nurse to join a new pilot: North Central London Complex Adolescent Intensive Community Support Team.
This is a new partnership-based multi-disciplinary initiative that will be hosted by the London Borough of Camden and will initially work with Camden, Barnet and Islington local authorities. This is currently a 12-month pilot programme. A short-term intensive, therapeutic, community-based support will be provided to children and young people aged 13-18, who have complex needs and circumstances and their families, when there is a high risk of family or placement breakdown. The aim of the service is to enable children and young people to receive personalised care in the community, closer to home, to reduce preventable and unhelpful admissions to CAMHS inpatient services and acute hospitals and reduce the number of delayed discharges within inpatient services. This service aims to reduce the need for children and young people to be accommodated in high-cost social care placements, social care placements that are far away from their local area and reducing the potential for multiple placement breakdowns.
Main duties of the job
1. The post holder will hold their own complex caseload within the team including responsibilities for risk management and clinical governance, planning and prioritising these
2. Undertake clinical assessments of service users/patients and offer highly skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities
3. Work with Clinical Lead on intake and referral coordination
4. Provide consultation to other agencies as required such as: CAMHS, Local Authorities, Placement Providers, Schools and GPs
5. Review cases where patients have impasses, complaints, or disputes with their clinical care
6. Delegated responsibility for investigating complaints and processing Freedom of Information requests
7. To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessment questionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol and to systematically collect data on caseload as required by the Clinical Lead
8. Formulate specialised plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patient's psycho-social difficulties taking into account multiple theoretical and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy
About us
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.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
If you are interested, please feel free to contact:
Lottie Laverty, Service Clinical Lead, Camden CAMHS Unit, Systemic & Family Psychotherapist, CBT Therapist and Mental Health Nurse, llaverty@tavi-port.nhs.uk
Provisional Interview Dates: Wednesday 20th May 2026 AM and Wednesday 27th May 2026 AM
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree level as a minimum plus developed specialist and practical knowledge equating to postgraduate degree/ Masters level
* Registration with NMC as a Mental Health Nurse
* Qualifications as a Systemic Practitioner (foundation and intermediate level of AFT recognised systemic training)
* Additional CYP-PT Trainings (e.g. CBT, ASD/LD, Parenting, Systemic)
* Additional training in: NVR, Open Dialogue, NDD, AMBIT
Experience
* Evidence of clinical experience of working with client population
* A clear track record of managing complexity and risk whilst maintaining high standards of service delivery
* A comprehensive understanding of the changing NHS and Social Care environment and the challenges they face
* Experience of working at all levels of the system with internal and external stakeholders
* Expertise in managing and treating the client group
* Some experience of clinical supervision
* Some experience of clinical management of staff
* Some experience of involvement in project work e.g. quality improvement
Skills
* High level of skill and knowledge in safeguarding and risk management
* Personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
* Basic keyboard skills for updating client records
* Ability to manage own clinical case load
Knowledge
* Willingness to contribute to strategic and business planning
* Skills for assessing and communicating complex client conditions and applying appropriate clinical treatments
Personal Attributes (demonstable)
* Demonstrate equality, diversity and inclusion awareness and application of EDI issues
* Proactive, positive and enthusiastic attitude
* Ability to work effectively within a team
* Ability to remain calm whilst under pressure
* Flexible approach to working hours to meet service needs
Other
* Ability to travel
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
5 Pancras Square with cross borough travel
£66,274 to £73,496 a yearper annum pro rata, inclusive of HCAS
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
260-NLFT-0769
Job locations
5 Pancras Square with cross borough travel
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