CAMHS Mental Health Nurse ( N&S MCCAED ARFID)

Maudsley Learning; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative team as a CAMHS Mental Health Nurse, where your expertise will contribute to the care of young people with ARFID. This part-time role offers a unique opportunity to work within a supportive environment, providing specialist assessments and interventions while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. You will be instrumental in developing care plans and supporting service improvements, all while enjoying flexible working hours that promote a healthy work-life balance. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and adolescents, this is the perfect opportunity for you to grow and thrive in your nursing career.

Qualifications

• Must hold a valid nursing qualification with CAMHS experience.
• Experience in collaborative care planning and delivery is essential.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and develop care plans for young patients with ARFID.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure effective care delivery.

Skills

Nursing qualification (RMN or RSCN or HV)

Clinical supervision training

Basic IT and data entry skills

Experience in assessing physical health risks

Good written and verbal presentation skills

Education

First level nursing qualification

ENB 998 or mentorship training

Job description

CAMHS Mental Health Nurse (N&S MCCAED ARFID)

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Fixed term: 9 months (Until 01 Jan 2026)
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 334-NUR-6961297-AP

Site: Michael Rutter Centre
Town: London
Salary: £44,806 - £53,134 Pro rata inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/02/2025 23:59

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to providing high quality and specialist care to our service users and are recognised for the care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission rates our services as ‘good’.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users, where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.

As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

We are inviting applications from enthusiastic nurses for a part-time Band 6 post with our ARFID Team (secondments will be considered). Are you someone who enjoys working with young people, a team player, can bring experience of working with young people and families or eating disorders, and is willing to be flexible according to client needs? Do you love to learn and want to make a real contribution to developing excellent standards of care? If so, we are keen to meet you!

We are a friendly, welcoming, fast developing, innovative, national and specialist ARFID team working with young people (2 - 17 years) and their families. We offer an inclusive and supportive team environment and are keen to support your professional development and wellbeing. Our multi-disciplinary team includes Clinical Psychology, Nursing, Dietetic, Psychiatry, and Paediatric posts, supported by a friendly Admin Team.

Main duties of the job

• The successful candidate will join a busy multidisciplinary team who work within Access and Waiting Times standards to assess and offer detailed formulations and MDT interventions (psychological, dietetic, and psychiatric) to children and young people who meet the diagnostic criteria for ARFID.
• The post holder will be expected to carry out detailed assessments, feedback to the MDT team, and develop appropriate care plans for patients accepted for intervention.
• The role also involves care co-ordination and liaison with community teams (e.g., paediatrics, dietetics, specialty teams, etc.), schools, and CAMHS.
• The post holder will hold a case load and offer evidence-informed interventions (in person and virtual) to children, young people, and families with ARFID.
• The CAMHS nurse will also support with doing physical observations on young people in the service and support in the development of risk management plans.
• The post holder will also support service development, research, and the EDI/PPI agenda within the team.

Working for our organisation

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from Denmark Hill train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and a wide range of restaurants. MCCAED is based in the Michael Rutter Centre within the Maudsley Hospital.

As one of the few Trusts in London, we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role, you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 08:00 to 18:00, giving you the very best of good work-life balance. (This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide specialist clinical/psychological assessment, formulations and interventions for clients with restrictive eating disorders, complex mental health needs and associated presentations.
• Complete robust risk assessments and risk management plans.
• To ensure that all recording and reporting of patient contact is accurate, up to date and of good quality and within CAMHS & professional requirement standards of record keeping.
• Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professionals, particularly acute medical and safeguarding teams. Providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.
• Contribute to the effective functioning of the team and service through attendance at relevant meetings, taking responsibilities within the service as appropriate and negotiated with the line manager.
• Supervise junior members of the team or trainees from any discipline.
• Assume responsibility for own case list and case management of children, adolescents and families who are determined to be at low/medium/high risk.
• Make a clinical formulation from a standard CAMH assessment, including risk assessment, on which to recommend a treatment intervention. Design, write and share a copy of the care plan with children, young people, and their carers. Carry out the planned intervention with minimal supervision.
• Assess safeguarding issues for own caseload and action appropriately.
• Use individual, group work, family work, advice, and supervision according to the needs of children and young people. Have a flexible and innovative approach to packages of care.

Person specification

Qualifications

• First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV with related CAMHS experience (A)
• Training in Clinical supervision (A)
• ENB 998 or mentorship and or equivalent experience and training (A)

Experience

• Experience of working collaboratively with supervisor, patient, carers and MDT to assess needs, plan and implement care. (A/I)
• Taking responsibility for care delivery in a specific area and maintaining a safe therapeutic environment. (A/I)

Understanding and Knowledge

• A working knowledge of the following: Mental health disorders in children and adolescents, The Children Act 1989, The Mental Health Act 1983, The Crime and Disorder Act 1998, London Child protection procedures, Assessment of risk and management of risk factors, The principles of clinical governance and practice, The principles underlying confidentiality and information sharing.

Skills

• Basic IT and data entry skills to enter clinical information into databases.
• Experience in assessing physical health risk and monitoring and care planning treatment of same. (A&I)

Abilities

• Ability to take on new concepts/forward thinking. Good written and verbal presentation skills.
• Ability to be 'reflective' in therapeutic practice and adapt practice from this reflection (A/I)

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights.

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online.
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria.
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible.
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful.
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
• That we are a smoke-free Trust.

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.