Nurse Consultant

Integrated Care System; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local NHS trust is looking for an experienced Nurse Consultant to join their Selby CAMHS team. This role involves significant leadership in mental health services for children and young people, requiring strong communication skills and the ability to work autonomously. The ideal candidate should have advanced qualifications and experience with complex mental health needs. This position promotes collaboration and high-quality care, with emphasis on child participation in services. Salary details available on request.

Qualifications

• Current Professional Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Trained in Clinical Supervision and providing Clinical Supervision.
• Demonstrated analytical skills and advanced knowledge management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the CAMHS team and services.
• Support delivery of mental health assessments.
• Promote child and young people's voices in mental health services.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Communication skills

Patient safety

Mental health assessment

Education

Master's degree in a relevant subject

Recognised leadership development programme

Recognised therapeutic qualification

Job description

Go back Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Nurse Consultant

The closing date is 31 August 2025

We are very excited to offer an experienced mental health Nurse an opportunity to join our Selby CAMHS team as a Nurse Consultant. We are seeking a dynamic and highly motivated individual who is passionate about children's mental health. The post holder must have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate a flexible approach to service delivery, and have had an extensive portfolio in nursing practice, leadership and management including involvement in research.

You will be an experienced clinical leader who can hold a credible, visible clinical lead role within the CAMHS team in Selby and across all CAMHS services within the North Yorkshire, York and Selby area. Applicants will be expected to have previous experience of being part of a senior leadership group within their team / service and had a role within service development and quality improvement work.

The successful candidate will have significant experience working with children and young people with complex mental health needs, and they will have training in, and experience of working within a modality of intervention.

Main duties of the job

You will be a key clinical leader, supporting the delivery and development of CAMHS services across the North Yorkshire York and Selby Care Group and wider Trust. You must be able to evidence experience of working at autonomously at a strategic, organisational and operational level.

You will be approachable, empathetic, passionate about high quality care and able to lead with compassion.

You must be conversant with patient safety, quality, governance and improvement processes and methodology and how they are applied within health systems and be skilled at leading others in embedding learning and improvements in care.

You must uphold high standards of care delivery and clinical practice and high professional standards and be able to work with all disciplines in the locality as well as be confident working closely with our partners in the wider system of child and young persons mental health services. This role is pivotal to delivering safe and effective services that make a difference. You will actively work to promote the voice of children and young people, families/carers, driving an agenda of co-production throughout all aspects of our services.

The successful candidate will undertake a clinical role within Selby CAMHS. This may include acting as the Key Worker for a number of children and young people and/or co-working with other members of the clinical team.

About us

We are a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, who offers support to children and young people from the age of 5 to 18. We offer support to children and young people who require specialist assessment and intervention for a mental health need. The service also offers specialist diagnostic assessments for Autism and ADHD, and we offer post-diagnostic support for young people diagnosed with ADHD.

We are small, friendly, multi-disciplinary team of supportive staff.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

We would welcome any enquiries from people interested in the vacancy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current Professional Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council - RMN / RNLD / RGN (RNSC - CAMHS Only)
• Recognised Practice Assessor/Practice Supervisor
• Trained in Clinical Supervision and providing Clinical Supervision
• To be able to demonstrate analytical and synthethetical level intellectual skills, ability to gather and manipulate information at advanced level and ability to manage advanced levels of knowledge through: Master's degree in a subject relevant to the area
• AND Recognised/accredited therapeutic qualification/registration in a therapeutic model relevant to mental health or learning disability e.g Intermediate Systemic Family Therapy/Post Grad diploma in CBT/British Isles Dialectical Behaviour Therapy/NMP (Independent Prescriber)
• AND Recognised/accredited leadership development programme

Experience

• Extensive experience working with patients with complex needs in the specialist field.
• Extensive experience working with patients who display risk behaviours
• Clinical risk assessment and management and its application in practice
• Demonstration of using expert practice in a governed therapy/advanced clinical qualification
• Demonstration of advanced transformational leadership knowledge, skills and competencies
• Able to demonstrate having worked in an autonomous expert role utilising clinical assessment skills in highly complex situations
• Working collaboratively with patients their families and carers
• Working in a multi disciplinary team
• Quality improvement activities
• Have engaged in research and clinical audit activity.
• Designed and delivered teaching or education packages to patients, carers and health care staff within the last 2 years

Knowledge

• Expert knowledge in mental state and/or physical examination and assessment
• Extensive knowledge of current issues relating to health needs of patients in the field of practice, regionally and nationally
• Understanding and working knowledge of the legal framework and statutory obligations under the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act
• Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
• Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
• Clinical Governance and its application in practice
• Working knowledge of clinical medicines management
• Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment (depending on specialist area)

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.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust