Clinical Nurse Specialist | South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding and growing Kingston & Richmond CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPA) Service. We are looking for a committed CAMHS Clinical Nurse Specialist who is passionate about working with children and young people with complex presentations, and who is also interested in wider service development initiatives. The role is based in the CAMHS SPA, assisting with assessment, signposting, ensuring that children and young people reach the most suitable pathway within locally agreed timeframes. Key functions include high‑quality assessments, formulation, intervention where appropriate and consultation. The position involves supporting integration of mental health assessments, coordinating care for children, young people and families, managing risk within team, directorate and trust structures, working to relevant professional and ethical guidelines, and using screening and outcome measures to demonstrate treatment effectiveness.

Unless expressly stated in the job advert, this role is not subject to sponsorship, and all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

1. Provide specialist assessments of young children and their parents/carers using multiple data sources, including psychological and self‑report measures, rating scales, observations and semi‑structured interviews in line with CYP IAPT methodology.
2. Formulate and implement plans for evidence‑based interventions to improve the parent/child relationship, based on an appropriate conceptual framework.
3. Implement a range of psychotherapeutic interventions, maintain provisional hypotheses, refine formulations, and employ evidence‑based methods.
4. Evaluate and decide on treatment options, considering theoretical and therapeutic models and complex historical and developmental factors.
5. Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge of clients managed under psychologically based standard care plans.
6. Provide specialist mental health advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals directly involved in care.
7. Use evidence‑based integrated working tools and processes to ensure holistic and coordinated services for children and families.
8. Undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers.
9. Communicate skillsfully and sensitively about assessment, formulation and treatment plans with children, parents/carers and other agencies.
10. Monitor progress during interventions, ensuring all interventions are fully assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated with CYP IAPT minimum dataset standards.
11. Maintain accurate, accessible health‑care records in accordance with trust policy and information governance requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people in a variety of settings.
• Experience working within a multi‑disciplinary team and with multi‑agency professionals.
• Ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community.
• Adaptability to fast‑paced SPA work, with good IT and computer recording skills.
• Knowledge and skills in risk assessment, management and safeguarding.
• Ability to deliver evidence‑based interventions.
• Qualifications: Registered Mental Health Nurse registered with the NMC.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, across all agencies.

We are inclusive and diverse and actively anti‑racist.

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