Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic Mental Health Nurse to join Sutton CAMHS as a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist leading on self-harm and risk case management.
The successful candidate will provide specialist assessment, formulation, and intervention for children and young people presenting with self-harm, suicidal ideation, emotional dysregulation, and complex risk. They will offer consultation and clinical leadership across the service, support safeguarding and risk management processes, provide supervision to colleagues, and contribute to service development.
Main duties of the job
The post is located in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Directorate of Southwest London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust. The Trust is responsible for the provision of mental health services to the population of Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston, and Richmond, as well as providing a range of specialist services to a wider, regional and national catchment area.
The post holder will work closely with CAMHS multi-disciplinary, integrated services including Single Point of Access, Tier 3, schools, Local authority professional, CECS.
The directorate uses IAPTus as the electronic clinical record (ECR) and information system.
Responsibilities
- Provide specialist assessment, formulation, and intervention for children and young people presenting with self-harm, suicidal ideation, emotional dysregulation, and complex risk.
- Offer consultation and clinical leadership across the service.
- Support safeguarding and risk management processes.
- Provide supervision to colleagues.
- Contribute to service development.
Requirements
- Current NMC registration as a Registered Mental Health Nurse.
- Significant CAMHS experience.
- Extensive experience working with self-harm, suicidality, and complex risk.
- Strong risk assessment, formulation, and care planning skills.
- Experience of clinical leadership and supervision.
- DBT training or experience delivering DBT-informed interventions.
Benefits
- Flexible working.
- Career development.
- A variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
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