The closing date is 21 April 2026
Salary: £53,751 to £60,651 a year Per annum incl. HCAS
Job summary
CNWL is strongly committed to staff development. There will be extensive training opportunities on offer with a range of optionstailored to both services needs and the individual’s interests.
The post holders would join a CAMHS Service where supervision and research is actively supported. There are regular service wide meetings and also peer group supervision available with other CAMHS Clinical Nurse Specialists.
Harrow CAMHS is well established and this posts are excellent opportunities for dedicated clinicians to join CNWL and one of our CAMHS teams.
We aim to provide an accessible, flexible and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children, using the whole range of therapeutic interventions, including behavioural, systemic, psychodynamic, group and multi-family work.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to have post registration experience in a mental health setting, ideally with children and adolescents and in managing risk. He or she will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team as well as other interfaces across the CAMHS service line.
Regular supervision will be provided and support will be readily available from a Consultant Psychiatrist on duty on a daily basis.
- The post holder will provide case management to those young people awaiting treatment whilst contributing to specialist support plans for the care of children and young people with a range of presenting problems.
- Formulate plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young persons problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to other professions on risk assessment and risk management.
- Act as case manager, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of CAMHS care plans including children and young people, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
- Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of children and young people under their care and to monitor progress.
- To participate on the local duty rota providing a more urgent response to issues when required. This may also include working as part of an evening clinic.
- Support to parents and young people seeking help between clinic appointments or when in crisis.
- Close liaison with schools and other agencies involved.
- To provide reports as appropriate to external agencies, ensuring that issues around confidentiality are manage
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- RMN Trained, NMC Registered
Desirable
- Training in one or more additional areas of practice especially relevant to complex CAMHS.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client group presenting with the full range of clinical severity around mental health concerns across a range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary Specialist CAMHS team and of proving specialist CAMHS assessment and intervention.
- Significant experience of working at band 6
- Experience of delivering evidence based care in a number of cultural contexts.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and / or supervision.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge and skills in assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Knowledge of the theoretical evidence base for understanding, formulating and providing interventions for mental health concerns experienced by children and young people.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information including diagnoses and formulations to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance and as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behavior.
- Experience of assessing mental health risk and safeguarding concerns.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). In particular, knowledge and experience of the Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) process
Desirable
- Knowledge of CAMHS legislation
- Knowledge and experience of research methodology
Other
Essential
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behavior.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
Personal
Essential
- Ability to contain and work with organizational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
- Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills.
- Treats service users with respect and dignity at all times
- Enthusiastic, flexible and confident approach to working.
- Able to prioritize own workload and meet performance requirements for the role.
- Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).