CAMHS Staff Nurse BAND 5 - Recruitment Event
We are holding a recruitment event for Band 5 CAMHS Staff Nurse on Wednesday 31st July 2024 and we would love to receive your application!
We are recruiting for the following locations below:
Lavender Walk - SW10 9NG
Lavender Walk is an inpatient unit looking after children and young people aged 13 -18. We want to recruit from different nursing backgrounds, in order to broaden and develop the experience and skill mix available to young people at Lavender Walk.
We are looking for innovative, dynamic Nurses who are interested in developing their careers within a supportive and highly skilled nursing, medical and therapeutic team.
Collingham Child Ward - W8 5LW
Welcome to CNWL Mental Health Inpatient Services for Children and Young People. Collingham Child and Family Centre is one of six National 7 Day Inpatient settings, that work in partnership with Chelsea Hospital Schools for children aged 5 - 13 years old. We are currently recruiting for an exciting CAMHS Clinical Team Leader (RCN, RMN, RNLD).
Nestled between High Street Kensington & Earls Court, Collingham is a Tier 4 Children’s Mental Health Unit which provides acute inpatient and schooling for young people with a range of with complex mental health needs and behavioural problems.
Who are we?
The team consists of two consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists, junior doctors, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, family therapists, support workers, a ward manager and matron. We also have a fantastic on-site school with an outstanding team of teachers and visiting tutors for music, art therapy and drama therapy.
What do we do?
We work closely with young people and their families to understand their problems, provide a comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, formulation and treatment plan to allow for them to return to their homes safely as quickly as possible. We treat a wide variety of psychiatric illnesses such as psychosis, mania, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. We don’t currently treat young people with primary eating disorders or those requiring naso-gastric tubes.
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 on our healthcare settings.
CNWL have a pioneering history improving health outcomes in people’s lives, by providing physical and mental health services at GPs, clinics, hospitals, and in the community.To find out more about working in CAMHS pleaseCLICK HEREfor one of our CAMHS video.
Staff are heartbeat of our organisation and we offer a £2,000 Joining Bonus, followed by £1,000 paid 12 months later.
For inpatient Nurses we offer a relocation scheme of up to £8,000 to any qualified Nurse in the UK moving to London. We have several providers who support with finding key worker rental properties at 80% Market Rent. You’ll have direct liaison with our Professional Nurse Educator to develop your career. You'll receive monthly supervision to support bespoke training, development offers, and our leadership and development programme, see the “Staff rewards and wellbeing handbook” for more details.
We take flexible working seriously, and will always be open to discussion to meet our workforces competing work life demands.
Our base is in the Chelsea area, next to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Thanks to the heavy NHS influence many local cafes, restaurants and bars give discounts at 10-20% to all NHS staff. As well as Better Gym offering a 50% discount to all staff.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification
Lavender Walk
Typical tasks for this role?
• 1:1 sessions with all the young people on a daily basis
• Primary Nurse for 1 to 2 young people
• Co-facilitating groups and activities with MDT colleagues
• Support young people with daily living skills
• Ensuring the safe running of the unit and policy and protocols are followed
• Attending CPA's and professional meetings
• Medication administration including depots
• Risk assessments
• Care planning
Collingham Ward
The team provides intensive assessment and treatment for children with complex emotional, behavioural and psychological difficulties, offering intensive work with families/parents and carers to develop their parenting skills.
Our highly experienced and dedicated multidisciplinary team is committed to offering the highest standards of care to help children and families regain their self-confidence. Adopting a solution focused approach for hard to manage problems and steer a course towards optimism, newly realised potential and a positive future for the child and their family network.
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Jul 2024
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