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CAMHS LIST Specialist Practitioner – Band 7
A compelling opportunity to lead, influence and deliver high-quality crisis mental health care to young people.
We are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician to join our Liaison and Intensive Support Team (LIST) at Band 7 level. This senior role combines advanced clinical practice with leadership, supervision, and service development responsibilities.
Why Join Us?
Step into a senior clinical role where your leadership and expertise directly shape the delivery of crisis and intensive community mental health care for children and young people. As a CAMHS LIST Specialist Practitioner, you will play a pivotal role in supporting young people experiencing acute mental health needs, while contributing to service development and operational leadership.
Join a forward-thinking, multidisciplinary team committed to delivering compassionate, responsive and high-quality care.
If you are an experienced, motivated practitioner ready to lead and influence service delivery, this is your opportunity to thrive.
Main duties of the job
You will work with children and young people presenting with moderate to severe and complex mental health needs, delivering intensive interventions and supporting safe alternatives to hospital admission.
In this role, you will:
- Deliver high-quality, timely mental health assessments for children and young people in crisis.
- Provide short-term, intensive interventions to stabilise mental health and reduce risk.
- Develop and implement evidence-based, person-centred care plans.
- Work flexibly across community, home, and acute settings, including liaison with acute hospitals.
- Provide clinical leadership within the team, supporting decision-making in complex and high-risk situations.
- Lead, supervise, mentor and support junior staff and students, promoting best practice and professional development.
- Contribute to the day-to-day operational management of the service, including caseload oversight and workforce coordination.
- Support safe and effective transitions between services, including inpatient care and community pathways.
- Coordinate care and work proactively with partner agencies to prevent escalation and avoid unnecessary admissions.
- Actively contribute to service development, quality improvement, and clinical governance processes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What We’re Looking For
We are seeking a practitioner who brings:
- Extensive CAMHS experience, including crisis or high-risk presentations.
- Advanced skills in assessing and managing complex and severe mental health needs, including risk management.
- Strong experience in delivering brief, intensive, evidence-based interventions.
- Ability to work autonomously and lead clinical decision-making in a fast-paced environment.
- An excellent team player who actively contributes to a supportive, collaborative multidisciplinary team culture, and role-models professional behaviours.
- Experience in supervising, mentoring or supporting junior staff and students.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and work effectively across multi-agency systems.
- Experience or interest in service development, quality improvement, and clinical governance.
- High levels of resilience, professionalism and a commitment to improving outcomes for young people.
Join Us in Making a Difference
If you are ready to bring your clinical expertise, leadership and passion to a role that supports young people at their most vulnerable, we would love to hear from you.
Together, we can deliver timely, compassionate care and improve outcomes for young people in crisis.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of well developed clinical skills and abilities in CAMHS, including mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions
- Skilled in emergency and crisis assessments
- Skilled in providing brief therapeutic interventions and psychoeducation
- Able to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team
- The ability to maintain and represent a CAMHS identity within a multi- agency setting
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to "hold" stress of others
- Able to manage own time and caseload, prioritising assessments and treatment in non mental health settings.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Evidence of ability to lead, support and influence others
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate
Knowledge
Essential
- Expert level of knowledge relating to children and young people's mental health and nursing practice
- Up to date knowledge of best practice in CAMHS including assessment and interventions
- Knowledge of current national guidelines and policies in the field of CAMHS
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Act (1983 (amended 2007) and associated legislation
- A sound knowledge of child protection guidelines and practice
- Understanding of national policy and guidelines relating to children and young people
Desirable
- Demonstrates research awareness and evidence based practice
- Knowledge of audit and quality improvement
- Experience of reviewing and implementing new polices/guidance and/or contributing to policy/guideline development
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working with children, young people and their families with complex mental health needs, including vulnerable young people who present with high risk behaviours
- Experience of risk assessment, care and safety planning.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team and in a multiagency context
- Experience of working with children and young people where there are safeguarding concerns and managing complex safeguarding cases
- Experience of working across professional and organizational boundaries
- Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multicultural setting
- Experience of participating in quality improvement initiatives
Desirable
- Specialty CAMHS experience e.g. YOT, Eating Disorders, Adolescent Inpatient ward, work in substance abuse
- Experience of working with children and young people with learning disability, autism or communication difficulties
- Experience of working in or with acute inpatient services/A&E for children young people and/or young adults
- Experience of service development
- Experience of delivering education in practice settings.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Educated to degree level
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Qualifications/training in relevant specialist skills e.g. systemic therapies, CBT, DBT, Solution Focused therapy
- Masters level study in a relevant area
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This advert is for CAMHS LIST Clinical Nurse Specialist with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Clinical nurse specialist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 Per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Jul 2026.
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