Registered Mental Health Nurse CAMHS -£3000 Recruitment/Retention(RL)

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS trust in London is seeking enthusiastic Band 5 nurses to join CAMHS Inpatient Units. This role offers the opportunity to work with children and young people, developing important therapeutic relationships. Newly qualified nurses are encouraged to apply. You will receive a generous benefits package and be part of a supportive team, helping you grow as a practitioner. The role requires flexibility and commitment to providing quality care.

Benefits

Generous pay and pensions

Work-life balance options

Career development opportunities

Car lease deals

Keyworker housing

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience of research-based/reflective practice.
• Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation.
• Empathy for service users including individuals who have experienced mental health problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality care that is responsive to service user's needs.
• Cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
• Work across 24hrs, 7days a week and in various clinical areas.

Skills

Quality care provision

Resilience

Self-awareness

Approachability

Advocacy for individuals

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse

Job description

A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Recruitment/Retention payment of £3,000 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 2 instalments over a 24 month period. Terms and conditions apply to the scheme, in relation to repayment should you leave within a 24 month period.

Is working within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) the first step in your career? Are you looking to work in a team that allows you to feel empowered and proud to be a Nurse? To work in an environment that will allow you to develop and flourish as a practitioner? Then the South London and Maudsley CAMHS Inpatient Units might just be what you’re looking for.

PS: This is a rolling advert. Applications will be considered and progressed accordingly on an ongoing basis and not necessarily until after the advert closes.

We have vacancies across our adolescent units:

• Snowsfields Adolescent Unit, Maudsley Hospital
• Bethlem Adolescent Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital
• CAMHS PICU, Bethlem Royal Hospital

We are looking for highly skilled and enthusiastic Band 5 nurses to work within our multi professional team. This is an exciting role and one that gives you the opportunity to work children and young people to develop your therapeutic relationships with patients.

We especially encourage newly Qualified (or about to qualify) to apply. If successful at shortlisting stage you will be contacted regarding the next stage.

Benefits

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website. Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse

Desirable criteria

• Mentorship qualification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice.
• Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation

Desirable criteria

• Experience of shift co-ordination.
• Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user’s needs, without close supervision.
• Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
• Self-aware, self-confident and intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others.
• Approachable and forms very effective working relationships with colleagues.
• Advocates for all individuals, particularly those with protected characteristics; promotes equality and diversity

Desirable criteria

• IT skills
• Skilled in supervision of others, and in providing critical and constructive feedback.

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• Empathy for service users including individuals who have experienced mental health problems.
• Loyal and able to advocate for and show pride in the work area and organization and demonstrates values of trust and NHS
• Flexibility to work shift patterns across 24hrs, 7days a week and across all clinical areas within the Trust as required
• Ability to fulfil all the requirements of the role (including physical)

This advert closes on Friday 12 Dec 2025