CAMHS Clinical Nurse Specialist | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 25 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SE5 8AZ |
| Cwmni: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7358628/334-NUR-7358628-LF |
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The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) are seeking to recruit a Clinical Nurse Specialist to provide specialist assessment and interventions to children, young people and families, and consultation to other agencies or services, as part of a multi-disciplinary Mental Health of Intellectual Disability Service (MHID). The postholder will provide specialist nursing input to young people with highly complex presentations, including Intellectual Disability, neurodevelopmental disorders and behaviours that challenge. We are looking for a motivated and committed individual who will have experience working with children and young people and will need to meet the criteria detailed in the person specification. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a well-established specialist service ensuring that the nursing skills and expertise contribute to assessment and interventions. Development of the nursing role on the team is a priority. There are a range of teaching and training opportunities. The team leads a national service for young people with Prader Willi Syndrome which all team members are involved with.
• The successful candidate will be involved with multidisciplinary assessments of complex young people who have Intellectual Disability, neurodevelopmental disorders, and mental health and/or behavioural comorbidities. Functional assessments and development of PBS plans will be a key area of responsibility.
• Their other main duties include acting as a care coordinator taking responsibility for initiating, planning and reviewing care plans, assessing and monitoring risk and drawing up appropriate risk management plans.
• Report writing, as a specialist service, is a key component of the work.
• ADI and ADOS assessments are undertaken with most of the cases the team sees. Training can be provided.
About our locations:
Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the 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 with a wide range of restaurants. The team is based at the Michael Rutter Centre, Maudsley Hospital and will be moving into the new Pears Maudsley Centre later in the year.
Flexible working:
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 8am to 6pm, 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).
This is a brief summary of the job description with the detailed description outlined in the Key Responsibilities:
• Providing MDT assessments and interventions including review of documents, history taking, ADI, ADOS, school and/or home visits
• Contributing to case discussions and formulations with MDT and external agencies
• Undertaking Functional assessments of behaviours that challenge
• Developing Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) plans
• Attending multiagency meetings
• Report writing
• Involvement with safeguarding reviews, school reviews, transition planning
• Supervision of student nurses
• Teaching
• Training
This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Sep 2025