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CAMHS Senior Nurse Therapist
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Fife Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
Fife CAMHS is seeking an enthusiastic and suitably qualified individual to take on the role of CAMHS Senior Nurse Therapist within CAMHS Urgent Response Team (CURT).
About the Role
This post will enhance the current provision for children and young people who, as a result of their mental health, present with acute and significant risk and require urgent specialist assessment and treatment. You will join a well-established team with the aim of providing effective and timely community/hospital-based assessments and therapeutic interventions.
Responsibilities
- Manage an individual caseload
- Assess and deliver a range of therapeutic interventions on an individual, family, and group basis to children and young people with a wide range of mental health difficulties
- Demonstrate the ability to work autonomously in a wide variety of hospital and community settings
Fife CAMHS is committed to the development of its staff group and actively encourages participation in the NES CAMHS development programme as well as bespoke training based on individual and service needs.
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Requirements
- Passionate about children’s mental health
- Qualified as a Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Skills and competencies normally associated with relevant experience in a Child & Adolescent Mental Health setting
- Ability to respond to the needs of the service and the locality, including the ability to travel across Fife and wider as required
Application Process
Applications are invited from individuals who meet the above criteria.
For informal enquiries, please contact Michelle Walker, Team Lead CURT, on 01334 696250 or michelle.walker@nhs.scot
Important Information
- A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme prior to appointment.
- To work in the United Kingdom, you must demonstrate that you have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is granted by the UK Visa and Immigration Service. NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK as part of the pre-employment checks.
- We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
- NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination.
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