Clinical Nurse Specialist

You will join a team which provides a well-established, highly specialist tier 3.5 service for young people in Bexley. You will work with adolescents up to 18 years and their families/carers, with significant and acute mental health difficulties who are at risk of requiring Tier 4 inpatient care. The service offers assertive and intensive multi-disciplinary interventions and as a community alternative to inpatient care. The team uses a mentalization based approach (AMBIT and MBT-A)., The post holder will manage a complex caseload, working as care coordinator within a multi-disciplinary team including: psychiatrists, psychologists, child psychotherapists, nurses, family therapist, occupational therapist and support staff, in close partnership with partner agencies working with young people in Bexley. The service will be provided flexibly and on an outreach basis. You will also provide specialist advice and support to professional colleagues both internal and external to the Trust.

An opportunity has a arisen for a Senior CAMHS Nurse to join Bexley CAMHS working with adolescents with complex emotional, psychological and mental health difficulties and their families. You will be a qualified CYP RMN with proven post-qualification experience in community CAMHS with skills and additional training in working therapeutically with children, young people and their families or carers. We are particularly interested to recruit someone who has experience of working with young people at risk of psychiatric admission.

Bexley CAMHS

Park Crescent

Erith

DA8 3EE, http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab), Team Manager

Andy Haider

andy.haider@nhs.net

02032605200