CAMHS Specialist Nurse Practitioner

4 days ago


Tamworth Regional Council, Australia NHS Full time

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CAMHS Specialist Nurse Practitioner - NMP

The closing date is 02 October 2025

We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Nurse Prescriber to join our Multi-Disciplinary Team. Our team includes a mix of Psychiatrists, Nursing, Social work, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, and support staff.

Deliver, as part of wider Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) high quality, timely and comprehensive mental health service for children and young people (CYP) with a range of complex mental health needs. To focus on evidence-based bio-psychosocial assessment and nursing specialist interventions, working towards evidence-based recovery. Ensuring the nursing profession is represented within the Multi-disciplinary approach to care. To provide the co-ordination and collaboration in meeting the needs for a defined caseload working directly with CYP, their families/carers and external agencies.

If you have a passion for working with children, young people and their families we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

- To provide specialist assessments of children and young people, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation & integration of complex data from a variety of sources.

- To be responsible for implementing a range of clinical interventions for children and their families, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining formulations drawing upon different explanatory models.

- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options based on theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and families.

- To provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

- To contribute directly and indirectly to improving the understanding of child and adolescent mental health.

- To offer medication interventions where appropriate.

The post holder:

- Will take a lead role in the development of clinical services for young people accessing CAMHS services, including those identified as requiring additional consultation.

- would be an essential nursing member of the MDT and will be able to facilitate the co-ordination of care on a multi-disciplinary basis

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

- Supporting your career development and progression

- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave

- Options for flexible working

- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)

- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources

- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients

- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate

- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates

- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k

- Free car parking at all trust sites

- Free flu vaccinations every year

- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

- Registered Mental Health Nurse Trained to degree level or equivalent.

- Non-medical prescriber V300 or working towards this

- Additional qualification in Child & Adolescent Mental Health, inclusive of but not limited to: CYP IAPT, CBT, CBTp, Family interventions, CAT, DBT etc

- Recognised appropriate qualification in mentoring/assessing/ supporting students in placement

Experience

- Evidence of extensive post registration experience working with those who may experience complex mental health needs in the community setting and working in an MDT

- Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and have complex mental health needs requiring care coordination and autonomous working

- Experience of assessing and managing complex needs, including risk within a structured framework such as CPA/Safeguarding Children and familiarity in working in CAMHS

- Experience of effectively managing mental health related (2) issues/referrals/need for advice face to face and virtually including telephone at times of high demand and in relation to highly stressful/emotive situations

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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