Nurse Consultant

Job overview

We are very excited to offer an experienced mental health Nurse an opportunity to join our Selby CAMHS team as a Nurse Consultant.  We are seeking a dynamic and highly motivated individual who is passionate about children's mental health.  The post holder must have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate a flexible approach to service delivery, and have had an extensive portfolio in nursing practice, leadership and management including involvement in research.

You will be an experienced clinical leader who can hold a credible, visible clinical lead role within the CAMHS team in Selby and across all CAMHS services within the North Yorkshire, York and Selby area. Applicants will be expected to have previous experience of being part of a senior leadership group within their team / service and had a role within service development and quality improvement work.

The successful candidate will have significant experience working with children and young people with complex mental health needs, and they will have training in, and experience of working within a modality of intervention.

Main duties of the job

You will be a key clinical leader, supporting the delivery and development of CAMHS services across the North Yorkshire York and Selby Care Group and wider Trust. You must be able to evidence experience of working at autonomously at a strategic, organisational and operational level.

You will be approachable, empathetic, passionate about high quality care and able to lead with compassion.

You must be conversant with patient safety, quality, governance and improvement processes and methodology and how they are applied within health systems and be skilled at leading others in embedding learning and improvements in care.

You must uphold high standards of care delivery and clinical practice and high professional standards and be able to work with all disciplines in the locality as well as be confident working closely with our partners in the wider system of child and young persons mental health services. This role is pivotal to delivering safe and effective services that make a difference. You will actively work to promote the voice of children and young people, families/carers, driving an agenda of co-production throughout all aspects of our services.

The successful candidate will undertake a clinical role within Selby CAMHS.  This may include acting as the Key Worker for a number of children and young people and/or co-working with other members of the clinical team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

We would welcome any enquiries from people interested in the vacancy.