# Highly Specialist CAMHS Nurse Prescriber and Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-camhs-nurse-prescriber-and-practitioner/6e105979-398a-4767-9d3a-fc9000689461 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-camhs-nurse-prescriber-and-practitioner/6e105979-398a-4767-9d3a-fc9000689461.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Adult Mental Health Services - Tower Hamlets Directorate - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 Per annum inc HCA - **Contract type:** Permanent: Full time - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-20T07:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-18T11:11:44.713Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nurse_Prescriber/Nurse_Prescriber-v8296506 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8296506?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview - Hours per Week – Fixed Term Contract- One year An exciting opportunity has arisen for Highly Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse Prescriber and Practitioner to join the Neurodevelopmental Team at City and Hackney Specialist CAMHS. City and Hackney Specialist CAMHS is a busy, forward thinking and thriving CAMHS service with high staff morale and excellent CPD opportunities. The clinician will join a large, experienced multi-disciplinary team of clinicians who provide a range of diagnostic and mental health services to children young people and their families with neurodevelopmental disorders. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will provide comprehensive specialist assessments, including risk assessment of young people and their families/carers referred with mild learning disability and/or ASD and/or ADHD. They will provide evidence-based behaviour management interventions as part of an integrated care package to children, young people and their families/carers. The post holder will safely prescribe and monitor medications within local and national guidelines, in liaison with a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. This includes conveying to parents, carers and young people, the implications of a prescribed medication, the side effects and what they have to watch for in a sensitive, meaningful way. You will be expected to demonstrate a working knowledge of the prescription of medication effects, side effects and contra-indications in accordance with the independent and supplementary prescribers’ training and current legislation. They will be aware of key trends in the evidence base for prescribing and maintain an up-to-date knowledge of medicines commonly prescribed. We will provide an interesting and supportive work environment, with good training and supervision, and regular opportunities to share practice with other ELFT psychotherapy colleagues. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details. For further details and informal visits contact: Lorraine Dick, Clinical Team Lead of the Neurodevelopmental Team on 0203 222 5600 or via email: l.dick@nhs.net ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Sound working knowledge of evidence base in CAMHS - Sound working knowledge of national policy and guidelines for working in CAMHS - Specific knowledge of neurodevelopmental disorders and their assessment and management - Specific knowledge of medicines and non-medical prescribing in CAMHS - Knowledge of psychosocial interventions, risk EE assessments and the principles of Care Programme Approach (CPA) - Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Children Act, Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation ### Experience **Essential** - Previous experience of working in CAMHS or equivalen - Experience at Band 7 or above - Experience of working specifically with neurodevelopmental disorders - Experience of line managing junior staff - Experience of mentorship and a nurseteaching role - Experience of service development - Experience in policy development - Experience of providing multi-disciplinary teaching and training ### Skills and E Abilities **Essential** - Evidence of well developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS - Evidence of flexible working practices and excellent interpersonal and communication skills - Clinical supervision skills - Able to manage own time and caseload - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Evidence of ability to lead, support and influence others ### Education/ Qualification/ Training **Essential** - Registered Nurse Mental Health or Registered Nurse Learning Disabilities or Registered Children’s Nurse. Part 3/8/13 or 15 NMC registe - ENB 998 or equivalent - Post graduate qualification in a behavioural treatment modality ## Documents - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [elft strategy 2026 (pdf, 421.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3090) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) - [jd & ps - c&h camhs nmp sept 2026 (pdf, 352.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10619217) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.