CAMHS Learning Disability Nurse

NHS; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking a CAMHS Learning Disability Nurse based in Cheltenham to provide mental health services to children with learning disabilities. The role involves managing a clinical caseload, conducting assessments, and delivering evidence-based interventions. Professional registration and specific qualifications in nursing and CAMHS are required. The salary range is £38,682 to £46,580 per annum.

Qualifications

• Current registration with NMC or HCPC is mandatory.
• Experience in providing clinical interventions for children and young people.
• Ability to undertake specialist assessments.

Responsibilities

• Manage a clinical caseload in line with the Care Programme Approach.
• Conduct clinical risk assessments and develop management plans.
• Provide clinical supervision to junior staff.

Skills

Clinical risk assessment

Positive behaviour support

Therapeutic interventions (CBT, DBT)

Clinical supervision

Education

Professional Health RNLD, RMHN

Postgraduate training in CAMHS or LD

Additional qualifications (LD, nurse prescriber, etc.)

Job description

Go back Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

CAMHS Learning Disability Nurse

The closing date is 01 October 2025

Gloucestershire CAMHS provides a high quality specialist mental health service to children and young people up to their 18th birthday and has locality bases in Stroud, Cheltenham and Gloucester.

This is an excellent opportunity to work in the children's Learning Disability Service. We are seeking a highly motivated and committed individual to join our team. The post holders will be based in Cheltenham but allocated a locality patch within Gloucestershire, therefore your own transport is essential.

We work with Children and young people who attend a special school, we see them at home, in clinic or in school to deliver evidence based interventions.

The role involves holding a clinical caseload of children and young people with moderate-severe Learning Disabilities. To offer assessment and interventions to children experiencing, mental health difficulties and or challenging behaviour, including sleep difficulties. We adopt a PBS (positive behaviour support) approach throughout our work.

We deliver a range of courses to families around parenting and behaviour management. We undertake clinical risk assessment as part of routine care coordinator responsibilities, clinical formulations and robust risk management plans.

This role involves extensive multi agency working.

Main duties of the job

Provide a range of specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) as well as their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties as well as those children and young people who have learning disabilities.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

Undertake clinical responsibility for a caseload, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Care Programme Approach (CPA) and liaising with Trust and multi agency partners across Gloucestershire as required.

Undertake clinical responsibility and be able to work independently in managing a clinical caseload. This will include meeting all clinical and operational requirements expected of a CAMHS Care Coordinator in line with the Care Programme Approach (CPA) as well as current evidence based or best practice. This will include collaboratively working and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required.

Provide CAMHS specialist clinical risk assessments and risk management plans as part of routine clinical work ensuring that all aspects of clinical caseload work adheres to current Trust safeguarding as well as risk assessment and management best practice procedures. This willinclude undertaking specialist Self Harm risk assessments of children and young people.

Provide formal clinical supervision to junior staff (as requested), including facilitating the development and consolidation of CAMHS core skills and competencies.

Offer regular student/trainee placements as requested, including meeting all teaching, assessing and preceptorship needs.

Person Specification

Education

• Professional Health RNLD, RMHN
• Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: NMC, HCPC,
• Post graduate training within a relevant CAMHS or LD field or skill
• Profession specific additional qualifications (i.e LD, nurse prescriber, DBT, CBT, AMHP, family therapy or systemic practice)

Knowledge

• Demonstrate profession based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of CAMHS therapeutic interventions, including current best practice
• Working knowledge of therapeutic use and application of CAMHS specific interventions, i.e CBT, DBT
• Positive Behaviour Support
• Evidence of attending evidence based/best practice clinical courses / training events related to CAMHS or LD

Experience

• Significant clinical experience of delivering evidence based/best practice clinical interventions within LD /CAMHS or child related services
• Experience of undertaking specialist assessments of children and young people
• Experience of providing clinical supervision

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.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum pro rata