NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
We are in the fortunate position of attracting many new members to our Child and Adolescent Mental Health team over the past couple of years. We are proud of the developments we have been able to achieve together as a growing multidisciplinary team. There is an energy and optimism that we can continue to see our service grow and continually improve for the children and young people we serve, but there is a lot of work still to do.
This post will offer a fixed term/secondment opportunity for a Learning Disability Nurse to contribute to and gain experience in LD CAMHS to provide assessments and interventions for children and young people with moderate, severe and profound learning disabilities with significant mental health difficulties. Our multi-disciplinary team includes LD nursing, Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry and you would be working and learning alongside all these clinicians.
We are interested in learning about what you are passionate about, we want to benefit from your skill set, but also see you grow and develop in your role. We are supportive of CPD and ensuring we know your training needs.
The community nursing team is an integral part of CAMHS and we have experienced success with a focused recruitment drive over the last 2 years which has allowed us to substantially expand our nurse provision in the department and we have also invested heavily in the support structure for our nursing staff. We consider ourselves to be a compassionate, caring and innovative team which supports clinicians to work to their potential.
The community nursing team will work closely with the CAMHS MDT to deliver a specialist, comprehensive and therapeutic service, using their own initiative and acting autonomously when making clinical nursing decisions that are safe and effective in line with their professional nursing and midwifery (NMC) code of conduct.
Although the hours of this post are 22.2 hours per week, working hours of between 14.8 - 22.2 hours per week will be considered. This post is offered on a secondment/fixed term contract until 31/05/2026.
This role does not meet the eligibility criteria for a or a NHS Highland is unable to provide candidates with a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) for this role.