Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse with specialist experience and knowledge of children's mental health? and do you want to be a part of something special whilst developing your skills at the same time?
As a Specialist Nurse in the community you will be responsible for providing full assessments, formulation and evidence based interventions to children, young people and their families, who are experiencing mental health difficulties. In order to achieve such ambitious goals we recognise the importance of supporting all our staff in building and feeling a part of a healthy, well-functioning team and service. We appreciate we are striving for cutting edge assessment and treatment within a highly emotive and distressing environment. We are looking for individuals that are good under pressure; place high worth in team based working and with an unrelenting passion and dedication for working with young people and their families.
If you are looking to work somewhere that is unconditionally respectful to young people and their families, that value their staff as individuals and continuously strives to be the best unit it can be then we could be the team for you.
We are excited to be able to go out to advert for a clinical nurse specialist to join our expanding CAMHS community team. This role has been introduced to allow for nursing career development and enhanced nursing practice within the core CAMHS service.
We value ourselves in being a close, supportive, and containing team that is passionate about providing high quality care and look forward to welcoming you to be part of it.
You will be a key core practitioner within the Children and Young Peoples mental health service using leadership skills to support and develop service delivery
You will be innovative and facilitate evidence-based practice delivery for children, young people and their families across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
To develop clinical practice by leading and developing multi-disciplinary team working across the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health and Social Care Community.
You will be responsible for maintaining an individual caseload, using your specialist skills, from referral to discharge, conducting routine and high priority assessments and interventions as appropriate and exercising autonomy.
You will be liaising and providing advice, information and consultation to colleagues and other agencies as well as undertaking service governance activity, including research and audit as appropriate.
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see supporting documents.