Community Mental Health Nurse

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

NHS Borders are delighted to invite applicants to join our Child & Adolescent Health Service. This is a fantastic career move brings with it a lifestyle changing opportunity to work in the Scottish Borders and experience the benefits of rural life with very easy access to major cities such as Edinburgh (37 Miles) Glasgow (75 miles) and Newcastle (75 miles).Scottish Borders CAMHS aims to deliver person centred care based on the GIRFEC principles within our community. As we progress with our service improvement program work we see this significant post as central, and an exciting opportunity to transform the way we support and care for children / young people and families in the community.The Community Mental Health Nurse will work with the members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure services are effective, and will participate in continued professional and practice development, including in-house training, ensuring high quality person-centred care is delivered. The post holder will lead by example to maintain high standards of care and practice to improve client care in the specialist CAMHS service. We are looking for a motivated nurse who wants to develop their clinical experience and knowledge of children and young people’s mental health.We provide Tier 3 multidisciplinary and psychological interventions, and Tier 4 intensive community treatment, working closely with the Young People’s Units when hospital admissions are necessary. Led by our population’s changing needs and national guidance, we are fostering a period of innovation to make positive changes across the range of CAMHS services we provide, and also continuing to develop good working relationships between ourselves and our multiagency partners.We are seeking a highly motivated individual who can demonstrate strong leadership and clinical skills to support CAMHS multi-disciplinary working.  Ideally experience of working within community mental health would be advantageous and a sound knowledge of current clinical practice is essential. We hope to provide the landscape for development and training in return.

We would encourage anyone interested in this post to contact us (details below) for a chat and or to arrange a visit. We would love to share the wonderful work that we are doing in the Scottish Borders

.For further information, please contact Louise Brown, Clinical Team Manager 01750 23715 - louise.brown2@nhs.scot

Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.

As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

• PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early**
  

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.