We are looking for a committed CAMHS Clinical Nurse Specialist who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, is seeking to expand their therapeutic skills and is looking for ongoing professional development opportunities within a specialist CAMHS setting.
Kingston CAMHS is an established Tier 3/Getting More Help service that supports children, young people, and their families with moderate to severe mental health difficulties. Our MDT service is made up of disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, family therapy, CBT therapists and child psychotherapy.
The service offer assessments and time limited evidence-based interventions for children and young people presenting with moderate to severe mental health conditions, including formulation and diagnosis where appropriate, as well as recommendations and signposting to our other services provided by partner organisations and services.
We have a range of Child and Adolescent Mental Health services within the Trust including Mental Health in Schools Teams, an Adolescent Outreach Team and 12 bed adolescent inpatient unit (Aquarius ward), learning disabilities and youth offending CAMHS services, and a DBT service as well as Specialist and National services including All Age Eating Disorders day and inpatient services, Deaf CAMHS services in London, Kent and Cambridge including Corner House inpatient Unit based at Springfield Hospital.
The role will be to provide a flexible, timely response to young people and their families who require Mental Health assessments, and /or robust risk management. The postholder will have a caseload within the Multi-disciplinary Tier 3 CAMHS Service at Kingston CAMHS T3.
The children and young people will be known to Kingston CAMHS or may be referred by GP, Schools, or Social Workers. The role will be embedded in a multi-disciplinary team and facilitates joint working with team consultants and therapists from the tier 3 teams, Children’s emergency care team (CEC’s), A&E, T3 Duty, waitlist support and case management with young people deemed at risk.
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.
* An interest in further professional development opportunities to increase skill set, such as DBT training.
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 ‘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.
About our locations
Tolworth Hospital, Surbiton
To create the very best environment to care for our patients, this site’s layout will be transformed in 2026 to add a number of wards to the existing three. Tolworth has a canteen and is near shops, the A3, Tolworth station, and is a bus ride from Surbiton station, with fast connections to Clapham Junction and London Waterloo.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Davinia Davidson
Job title: Service Manager
Email address: Davinia.Davidson@swlstg.nhs.uk
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