Highly Specialist CAMHS Mental Health Nurse | North London NHS Foundation Trust 260
| Posting date: | 16 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £66,274 - £73,496 per annum pro rata, inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2026 |
| Location: | London, N1C 4AG |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7896181/260-NLFT-0769 |
Summary
1 x Band 8a, 1.0 WTE Fixed Term Contracts (12 months) Registered Mental Health Nurse
Role will be seconded to Camden Local Authority
Are you looking for an opportunity tobuild on your experience as a senior clinician and clinical leader? If so, wehave a great opportunity for an experienced and dynamic qualified Registered Mental Health Nurse to join a new pilot: North Central London Complex Adolescent Intensive Community Support Team.
This is a new partnership-based multi-disciplinary initiative that will be hosted by the London Borough of Camden and will initially work with Camden, Barnet and Islington local authorities. This is currently a 12-month pilot programme. A short-term intensive, therapeutic, community-based support will be provided to children and young people aged 13–18, who have complex needs and circumstances and their families, when there is a high risk of family or placement breakdown. The aim of the service is to enable children and young people to receive personalised care in the community, closer to home, to reduce preventable and unhelpful admissions to CAMHS inpatient services and acute hospitals and reduce the number of delayed discharges within inpatient services. This service aims to reduce the need for children and young people to be accommodated in high-cost social care placements, social care placements that are far away from their local area and reducing the potential for multiple placement breakdowns.
1. The post holder will hold their own complex caseload within the team includingresponsibilitiesforriskmanagementandclinicalgovernance, planning and prioritising these
2. Undertakeclinicalassessmentsofserviceusers/patientsandofferhighly skilled treatment or therapy using appropriate therapeutic modalities
3. WorkwithClinical Leadonintakeandreferralcoordination
4. Provideconsultationtootheragenciesasrequiredsuchas: CAMHS, Local Authorities, Placement Providers, Schools and GPs
5. Reviewcaseswherepatientshaveimpasses,complaints,ordisputeswith their clinical care
6. DelegatedresponsibilityforinvestigatingcomplaintsandprocessingFreedom of Information requests
7. To ensure, where appropriate, agreed standardised assessment questionnaires are completed with clients as per team protocol and to systematicallycollectdataoncaseloadasrequiredbytheClinical Lead
8. Formulate specialised plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user/patient’s psycho-social difficulties taking into accountmultipletheoreticalandemployingmethodsbaseduponevidenceofefficacy
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to theenvironment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
If you are interested, please feel free to contact:
Christiana Young, Service Lead (Systemic Workforce),christiana.young@camden.gov.uk
Lottie Laverty, Service Clinical Lead, Camden CAMHS Unit, Systemic & Family Psychotherapist, CBT Therapist and Mental Health Nurse,llaverty@tavi-port.nhs.uk
Closing date: Friday 1stMay 2026, midnight
Provisional Interview Dates: Wednesday 20thMay 2026 AM and Wednesday 27thMay 2026 AM
This advert closes on Monday 4 May 2026