CAMHS Community Nurse | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity to join the CAMHS Enhanced Treatment Service as a Band 5 Community Nurse for a 12 month Secondment for maternity cover. This role would be suitable for a band 5 nurse who would like to learn and get experience working in a community setting. About the team: The Enhanced Treatment Service (ETS) is for young people aged 12-18 who are presenting with a serious mental illness. We offer an alternative pathway for young people who have been admitted for inpatient treatment, as well as offering a supported discharge package for young people leaving hospital. We aim to reduce A&E presentations and hospital admissions and offer the least restrictive interventions to provide consistent access to rapid, effective interventions, support and recovery - including crisis services. This includes better use of resources and investing to develop more local, community-based services and support. The service has both an outreach, and community day service model. This varied role offers excellent opportunities to gain experience and therapeutic skills in a variety of different settings. The post will be based at the PEARS Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People (PYMCP) in Camberwell. We are looking to appoint someone who is confident, responsive and has a passion for young-person and family-centred improvements; you will be enthusiastic and resilient and be able to respond to young people's needs flexibly. This role in ETS is a varied role which includes supporting CAMHS practitioners with case-coordination as part of a MDT care team, coordination of the day service, therapeutic group work, outreach work, delivering, reviewing and planning therapeutic interventions and risk management.

Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse/ or Registered Children's Nurse/
• Nursing Degree
• NMC registered professional registration
Desirable
• Mentorship Qualification
Experience Essential
• 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.
• Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation.
Desirable
• Experience of shift co-ordination.
• Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students.
• Experience of working with children or young people.
Knowledge /Skills Essential
• Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user's needs, without close supervision.
• Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
• Self-aware, self-confident and intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others.
• Approachable and forms very effective working relationships with colleagues.
• Empathy for service users including individuals who have experienced mental health problems. (A/I)
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to fulfil all the requirements of the role (including physical)
• Advocates for all individuals, particularly those with protected characteristics; promotes equality and diversity. (A/I)
• Skills in developing and changing clinical practice
• Ability to build and maintain high standard of professional links and communication channels with a variety of professional agencies.
Desirable
• Skilled in supervision of others, and in providing critical and constructive feedback.
• IT skills
  
  We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.