Senior Registered Nurse

NHS; Tooting; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Tooting is offering an opportunity for a Senior Registered Nurse to join their CAMHS Dynamic Support Team. This role involves working with children who have autism and mental health challenges, providing evidence-based treatments while coordinating care with families. Ideal candidates should possess experience with autistic youth, along with strong assessment and communication skills. The position offers a salary ranging from £46,419 to £55,046 per annum, inclusive of Inner London HCAs.

Qualifications

• Experience with complex and challenging behaviour in children.
• Ability to develop individualized support plans.
• Understanding of trauma-informed care.

Responsibilities

• Join a multi-disciplinary team and provide evidence-based treatment.
• Manage risk within team and directorate structures.
• Coordinate care for children and their families.

Skills

Experience with Autistic children and mental health

Risk assessment skills

Communication skills

Multi-tasking skills

Education

Registered Adult Nurse, Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse

Job description

Go back South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Senior Registered Nurse

The closing date is 10 February 2026

A great opportunity for a band 6 nurse with skills and knowledge in the field of Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) has arisen within the CAMHS Dynamic Support Team.

The post holder will join an experienced multi-disciplinary team with clear clinical supervision and management structure.

The work will include assessing and understanding complex and challenging behaviour/mental health in children with behaviours of concern, understanding and implementing therapeutic strategies, providing recommendations and reviewing these with the child/young person, family and network.

Children and young people referred to the Dynamic Support Team have a diagnosis of Autism, mental health difficulties and/or complex and challenging behaviour. They are at risk of psychiatric hospital admission, and/or placement breakdown.

Opportunities to develop and grow as a nurse and supervise junior members of staff.

We are looking for people who share our passion to develop a first-class service for Autistic children in South West London

Main duties of the job

The post combines direct clinical work with children and families with consultation to CAMHS, teaching staff, social workers and others. The work will include assessing and understanding complex and challenging behaviour, mental health, trauma-informed work, developing individualized support plans, and direct work with children and young people.

We are looking for someone with experience who:

• Has experience of working with Autistic children and young people and/or mental health difficulties, and/or behaviors of concern.
• Skills in the use of risk assessment, physical health monitoring, and mental health assessment and intervention and management
• Skills and ability to communicate in a variety of ways and within a range of networks and good multi-tasking skills.
• Likes a challenge and works well in a team

About us

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 be '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.

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.

Springfield University Hospital, Tooting

Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities.

The Adolescent Outreach Team base is at Springfield University Hospital and our inpatient adolescent unit, Aquarius, is also on the site. However, please be mindful that AOT provides a service across the whole 5 boroughs of South West London and provides predominantly home-based care.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will:

• Join a multi-disciplinary team with CAMHS Dynamic Support Team
• Provide evidence-based treatment;
• Have an agreed job plan with specified activity and throughput levels;
• Co-ordinate care for those children, young people and families on their caseload;
• Manage risk within team, Directorate and Trust structures;
• Work to relevant professional and ethical guidelines, and within the framework of Directorate and Trust policies and procedures.
• Use screening and outcome measures in clinically meaningful ways to demonstrate treatment effectiveness and seek feedback about user experience.

Person Specification

Education and Qualification

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

Experience and Knowledge

• 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.
• Significant relevant clinical experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience as a preceptor / mentor.
• Knowledge of clinical governance and audit.
• Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation.
• Experience of taking responsibility for a ward / clinical unit.
• Experience of engaging / supporting clinical research projects.
• Experience of supporting practice development in clinical areas.
• Experience of teaching. e.g. lecturer practitioner/preceptorship.
• Experience of recruitment and selection of staff.
• Lived experience of mental health.

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.

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

£46,419 to £55,046 a year per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs