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Job overview
The National and Specialist (N&S) CAMHS Autism and Intellectual Disabilities Intensive Intervention Team (AID-IIT) are seeking a CAMHS Highly Specialist Practitioner Nurse. The AID-IIT are an innovative multi-disciplinary team covering the whole of London. We offer specialist multi-disciplinary outpatient support to young people with a diagnosis of Autism or ID who are at high risk of inpatient admission or already admitted to a CAMHS inpatient unit. AID-IIT co-work with inpatient and local CAMHS teams across London to improve care and support for young people with a diagnosis of Autism or ID and high-risk presentations. Staff working in AID-IIT benefit from excellent team support and development opportunities. We have close links with the rest of the Service for Complex Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (SCAAND) and with other N&S CAMHS teams. The team are at the forefront of the development of support, practice and interventions for young people with a diagnosis of Autism or ID. Clinical work in AID-IIT is diverse – including working into both inpatient and outpatient/community settings, offering consultation and training, contributing to complex multi-disciplinary assessments, offering interventions for children, young people, parents and carers, and contributing to research and publication. AID-IIT staff have access to a range of CPD and training opportunities both within and outside of SLAM NHS Trust.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will work as a CAMHS Highly Specialist Practitioner - Nurse in AID-IIT to provide highly specialist nursing input into MDT assessments and offer psychological and nursing interventions to young people and parents/carers. The postholder will also deliver consultation, training and support to multi-agency local networks including other professionals, nurses and support workers from local and inpatient CAMHS settings. The postholder will offer supervision, line management and support to other junior staff within AID-IIT. The role includes work across a range of settings - offering outreach work in community settings, in reach work in inpatient settings and working from the Pears Centre, depending on the needs of the young person, family and network. Please note this is an in person/on-site role. The role will also involve contributing to service developments within AID-IIT and across wider SCAAND.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will work within the AID-IIT to provide highly specialist nursing input to our assessments and interventions, and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team including:
- Offering specialist assessment including complex neurodevelopmental assessments (e.g. ADO-2 and ADI-R) • Delivering interventions to young people with Autism or Intellectual Disabilities and highly complex presentations, their families/carers and wider networks. • To provide clinical supervision, consultation and training. • To contribute to care planning of young people by attending CETRs, CPAs and other professional/network meetings. • To use routine outcome measures and to contribute to service evaluation, audit and research. • To oversee good clinical governance. • To contribute to the leadership of the team including service development/planning, and the supervision and recruitment of more junior staff within AID-IIT. • To work as an autonomous professional within professional guidelines and codes of conduct and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor. • To work flexibly as needed across settings offering outreach work when needed – for example seeing young people in inpatient settings, family homes, community settings across London as required.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist with children and young people with Autism and Intellectual Disabilities and their families under supervision. (A/I)
- Experience of specialist multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of clients with a range of mental health needs of a complex nature in CAMHS. (A/I)
- Experience of providing consultation, teaching and training to professional groups. (A/I)
Desirable
- Experience supervising more junior clinicians (A/I)
Qualifications
Essential
- First level nursing qualification/registration RMN or RSCN or HV with related CAMHS experience
- Further post qualifying training and education in working with children and adolescents with mental health problems.
Desirable
- To have completed training in autism specific assessments (e.g. ADOS-2, ADI-R. (A/I)
- Management qualification, management training course completion or line management experience
- Training in mental health assessment and intervention for young people with Autism and Intellectual Disabilities and their families.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist with children and young people with Autism and Intellectual Disabilities
- Experience of specialist multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of clients with a range of mental health needs of a complex nature in CAMHS. (A/I)
- Experience of providing consultation, teaching and training to professional groups. (A/I)
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles (A/I/R)
Desirable
- Experience supervising more junior clinicians (A/I)
- Skills in adapting interventions for young people with Autism or Intellectual Disabilities (e.g. CBT, DBT, ACT) (A/I)
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This advert is for CAMHS Highly Specialist Nurse Practitioner (N&S AID-IIT) with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Nurse practitioner role. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 10 Aug 2026.
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