Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR237-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Keir Hardie Health Park
- Town
- Merthyr Tyfdil
- Salary
- £37,898 - £45,637 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist CAMHS Nurse
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
To work within the Assessment Treatment Team within the CAMHS service.
The post holder will liaise closely with other agencies and professionals and provide consultation when required. There will also be a need to provide teaching and training to others.
The post-holder will be responsible for managing own time and will be required to plan range of complex activities; balancing client needs with other requirements of post.
The post-holder will have a thorough understanding of consent to treatment issues and will effectively demonstrate analysis which leads to clinical judgment in client notes.
Main duties of the job
To carry out initial specialist, triage assessment of children and their families using the appropriate assessment tools proformas, with an emphasis on risk assessment and risk management
To be responsible for planning and developing a programme of care.
This includes assessment and, where appropriate, the provision of telephone consultation delivering brief, solution focused interventions
To evaluate the needs of individual clients and their carers, in accordance with agree protocols of care and based on best available evidence.
The post holder will be expected to provide written and verbal reports.
To be aware of the special expertise of different disciplines within the service in order that the most appropriate help is provided for service users through consultation and/or active involvement of a worker from a different discipline.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications knowledge
Essential criteria
- RN (MH) Current NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Relevant degree. Evidence of CPD relevant to CAMHS. Relevant post registration qualifications e.g. • Family Therapy • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy • Eating Disorders • Self Harm • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy • Borderline Personality Disorder • Experience in teaching Extensive knowledge in normal and abnormal child development, extensive knowledge in child and adolescent mental health issues.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Appropriate post registration experience. Experience of working within mental health or a therapeutic post eg eating disorders, challenging behaviour. Experience of mental health assessment and implementation of a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions. Experience of working in partnership with other agencies. Ability to manage a case load. Working knowledge of health, social services, education and the voluntary sector, together with the relevant legislation regarding children’s mental health. Management skills.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of group teaching. Experience of audit.
Aptitudes abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent assessment skills Ability to manage anxiety effectively and work with young people with challenging behaviour. Flexible and adaptable to working conditions. IT skills Ability to work on own volition. Good communication and time management skills.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
Values
Essential criteria
- Proactive and adaptable.
Other
Essential criteria
- Enhanced DBS Check
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jenni Richards
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443008
- Additional information
Jenni Richards
Team Lead
01443 443008
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