Lead Nurse Harrow CAMHS

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others. There’s a place for you at CNWL. We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

Site: Harrow CAMHS
Town: South Harrow
Salary: £61,631 - £68,623 pro rata including HCAS pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/02/2026 23:59

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run. Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference.

We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff. We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Job overview: To provide leadership and operational management of all nurses within the Harrow CAMHS team, and along with the other multi-disciplinary professional leads, support the team manager by ensuring team structures and policies are adhered to, as well as supporting the development of new ways of working. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. They will utilise research skills for audit to support policy and service development; and undertake research within the area served by the service and of relevance to young people, their families and carers.

Main duties of the job:

• Contributing to highly specialist assessments and treatment of children and young people with complex and high-risk mental health presentations including outreach work.
• Supervise and manage the Enhanced Treatment Team within Harrow CAMHS, ensuring effective clinical care is provided in line with clinical governance and best practice.
• Support the development of new services and protocols as dictated by CAMHS Transformation plans and good practice.
• Provide CAMHS assessment and intervention as well as providing interventions and supporting case formulation and treatment plans in line with best practice and evidence-based interventions.
• Provide advice and consultation to the team on nursing interventions with a focus on the most complex children and families.
• Provide operational management and clinical supervision to the Harrow CAMHS nurses, and where appropriate other staff, and have line management and clinical oversight of all job plans for Harrow CAMHS nurses.

Person specification:

• Degree/diploma in Nursing
• Current professional registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) RMN.
• Research training
• CYP IAPT training
• MSC level training in a relevant specialist field or appropriate experience
• Post registration training in a treatment modality to diploma/degree standard as a minimum such as CBT

Experience:

• Significant experience of working within a CAMHS team.
• Experience of resolving complex admission and discharge delays.
• Experience of managing and supervising others in a clinical and performance management context including appraisals.
• Experience of developing operational protocols and managing duty cover systems.
• Experience of leading and developing multi-partnership collaboration arrangements at a senior level.
• Experience of delivering training to colleagues.
• Experience of developing bespoke training packages for non-CAMHS professionals.

Core Competencies:

• Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and emergency CAMHS assessment.
• Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly.
• Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk.
• Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure.
• Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication.
• Able to foster strong therapeutic alliances.
• Understanding of and commitment to the principles and practices of CYP IAT.
• Understanding of and commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice.
• Understands the need for and has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support.
• Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs.
• Able to promote self-management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills.
• Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting duty and emergency rotas, peer support, training and skills development.
• Able to build strong partnerships with external agencies and develop effective joint planning and support arrangements.
• Able to confidently and safely plan for and manage change and transition.
• Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills.
• Experience of undertaking specialist assessment at a level appropriate to the job.
• Understanding of need for and ability to form effective working partnerships with internal and external partners.
• Ability to develop and implement clear and robust operational policy and protocol.
• Ability to lead the development and implementation of new structures and processes that impact on staff at all levels.
• Experience of undertaking assessment of parenting capacity as part of court required parenting assessment.

Administration and Record Keeping:

• Able to use word and excel to write reports and analyse and present basic data.
• Competent in the use of clinical recording systems.
• Understands the process for keeping safe, secure and relevant clinical records.
• Understands and is able to use online incident reporting systems.
• Able to use email to support effective communication in line with CNWL policy.
• Able to use Microsoft PowerPoint and other communication methods to support the delivery of high quality, engaging training and presentations.

Attitude, Aptitude and Personal Characteristics:

• 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 prioritise own workload.
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills and adapt to change.
• Conducts self in a professional, courteous manner at all times and able to maintain professionalism in an often emotionally challenging environment.

Other:

• Understands and able to implement and promote the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job.
• Understands and can apply confidentiality and information sharing policy and procedure.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working in our healthcare settings.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible. Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.

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