Job Description

A unique opportunity for a CAMHS ADHD Nurse Practitioner, Band 6, to join the CAMHS team.
There is a strong multi-disciplinary culture in the team and you will contribute to change management in the service. You will hold experience working in CAMHS services and have a sound understanding of mental health challenges facing children and young people. You will have significant knowledge and skills of working with moderate to severe mental health presentations and be ready to join a highly dynamic and experienced team of clinicians.
The Post Holder will provide a core element of the service for children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and play an active role in assessments, prescribing and monitoring of medication and multi-disciplinary discussions.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide mental health support and treatment for the adolescents referred to the service.
They will be expected to join the team in delivering a high quality innovative service for adolescents using research and good practice guidelines.
They will take a key role in developing a seamless service between community services, in-patient services, and adult mental health services.
The post holder will coordinate referrals to other agencies and work with other agencies to prevent the need for hospitalisation and to ensure that those young people who have in-patient treatment are in hospital for the shortest possible time.
The post holder will work jointly with the consultant in all other aspects of service delivery.
About us
We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Details
Date posted
19 September 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
38,682 to 46,580 a year per annum (pro rata if P/T)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
333-D-MK-MH-1274
Job locations
Eaglestone Health Centre
Hospital Campus
Milton Keynes
MK6 5AZ
Job description
Job responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive CAMHS assessments of children and young people referred to the team
• Formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young persons problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
• Be responsible for implementing a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis

Job description
Job responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive CAMHS assessments of children and young people referred to the team
• Formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management of the child/young persons problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
• Be responsible for implementing a range of interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Degree/diploma in Nursing
• RMN Trained with current UK Professional registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council.
• Safeguarding children training

Desirable

• MSC level training
• Research training
• Nurse prescriber qualification
• MBT
• CYP IAPT training
• Post registration training in a treatment modality to diploma/degree standard as a minimum such as CBT or DBT

Experience
Essential

• Post qualifying experience of working within a multidisciplinary community CAMHS team as a Band 5 nurse
• Experience of work with adolescents
• Experience of setting up groups and/or co-facilitating
• Experience of managing student nurses and undertaking mentorship training to consolidate
• Experience of delivering training to colleagues

Desirable

• Experience of developing bespoke training packages for non CAMHS professionals
• Fluent in an additional language

Core Competencies
Essential

• Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and urgent CAMHS assessment
• Understand developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
• Understand the need for and able to competently assess risk
• Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
• Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice
• Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication
• Able to foster strong therapeutic alliances
• Understanding transition/referral pathways to support transition and sign posting ie IAPT, Different volunteering services.
• Understands the need for undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
• Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs
• Experience of providing consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers
• Able to promote self-management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills
• Able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting duty and emergency rotas, peer support, training and skills development
• Able to build strong partnerships with external agencies and develop effective joint planning and support arrangements
• Able to confidently and safely plan for and manage change and transition
• Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills

Desirable

• Has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support

Specialist Competencies
Essential

• Experience of undertaking specialist assessment at a level appropriate to the job

Desirable

• Specialist assessment treatment of specific groups
• CBT
• Nurse Prescriber
• Family Therapy
• Group Therapy

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Degree/diploma in Nursing
• RMN Trained with current UK Professional registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council.
• Safeguarding children training

Desirable

• MSC level training
• Research training
• Nurse prescriber qualification
• MBT
• CYP IAPT training
• Post registration training in a treatment modality to diploma/degree standard as a minimum such as CBT or DBT

Experience
Essential

• Post qualifying experience of working within a multidisciplinary community CAMHS team as a Band 5 nurse
• Experience of work with adolescents
• Experience of setting up groups and/or co-facilitating
• Experience of managing student nurses and undertaking mentorship training to consolidate
• Experience of delivering training to colleagues

Desirable

• Experience of developing bespoke training packages for non CAMHS professionals
• Fluent in an additional language

Core Competencies
Essential

• Able to confidently and competently undertake generic and urgent CAMHS assessment
• Understand developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly
• Understand the need for and able to competently assess risk
• Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure
• Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice
• Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication
• Able to foster strong therapeutic alliances
• Understanding transition/referral pathways to support transition and sign posting ie IAPT, Different volunteering services.
• Understands the need for undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support
• Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs
• Experience of providing consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers
• Able to promote self-management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills
• Able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting duty and emergency rotas, peer support, training and skills development
• Able to build strong partnerships with external agencies and develop effective joint planning and support arrangements
• Able to confidently and safely plan for and manage change and transition
• Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills

Desirable

• Has experience of undertaking family and parenting work as part of CAMHS support

Specialist Competencies
Essential

• Experience of undertaking specialist assessment at a level appropriate to the job

Desirable

• Specialist assessment treatment of specific groups
• CBT
• Nurse Prescriber
• Family Therapy
• Group Therapy

Skills Required