CAMHS Nurse – Band 5-6 Developmental post(UK Visa Sponsorship)

Job Description

Build Your CAMHS Career While Making a Difference in Crisis Care

An exciting opportunity has opened within the North Yorkshire, York and Selby CAMHS Crisis Service for a Band 5–6 Developmental Nurse. This post is designed for a registered nurse who is ready to expand their expertise in child and adolescent mental health within a structured, competency-based progression framework.

Successful Band 5 applicants will receive tailored support to complete agreed competencies. Once achieved, you will transition into a substantive Band 6 role within the team.

Please note: This role is open only to candidates who already hold active NMC registration and have completed preceptorship. Newly qualified nurses will be recruited through a separate pathway.

The Service You’ll Join

The CAMHS Crisis Team provides urgent mental health assessment and intervention to children and young people experiencing acute distress. Operating across North Yorkshire, York and Selby, the team delivers rapid response, short-term therapeutic input, and risk management to ensure young people remain safe during vulnerable periods.

The service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including weekends and bank holidays.

You will be expected to work flexibly across three bases:

• Foss Park Hospital
• Cross Lane Hospital
• The Orchards

What the Role Involves

As a CAMHS Crisis Clinician, you will:

• Provide rapid mental health assessments for children and young people in crisis.
• Deliver short-term, evidence-based interventions.
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and safety planning.
• Work collaboratively with families, carers, schools, social care and partner agencies.
• Contribute to medicines management, including safe administration of injections where required.
• Support discharge planning and continuity of care.
• Participate fully in multidisciplinary discussions and clinical decision-making.
• This is a dynamic and sometimes demanding role. Resilience, compassion and sound clinical judgement are essential.

Development & Support

This post is structured to help you grow. You will receive:

• A clearly defined competency framework for Band 6 progression.
• Regular appraisal and talent management reviews.
• Clinical supervision within six months (if not already trained).
• Access to CPD, specialist CAMHS training and internal leadership development.
• A team culture that values innovation and encourages staff input into service improvement.
• The Trust is strongly committed to staff wellbeing and provides access to formal support services from appointment.

Essential Requirements

Professional Registration

• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (RNMH, RNLD or RNSC for CAMHS).
• Recognised Practice Assessor/Mentor or willingness to work towards this.
• Clinical Supervisor qualification (or completion within probation period).
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.

Experience

• Supporting individuals with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
• Working in person-centred therapeutic settings.
• Collaborative work with families and carers.
• Multidisciplinary and multi-agency partnership experience.

Knowledge & Clinical Skills

• Risk assessment and crisis management in children and young people.
• Safeguarding legislation and procedures.
• Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act awareness.
• Clinical governance and quality assurance principles.
• Safe medicines management practices.

Compliance & Sponsorship

• This role may be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship, subject to meeting Home Office criteria.

Further guidance:

• Skilled Worker visa route
• Nursing registration requirements
• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
• Mental Health Act legislation
• Criminal record checks for overseas applicants

This post is subject to enhanced DBS clearance under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.

About the Trust

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and learning disability services across County Durham, Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby. The organisation is driven by partnership, recovery-focused care and a commitment to innovation in community and crisis services.

The Trust’s vision is simple: every person should feel safe, understood, listened to and supported toward recovery.

Why Apply?

This is more than a crisis role. It is a chance to be present at critical moments in a young person’s life and help shape safer outcomes. If you are motivated, adaptable and passionate about CAMHS, this developmental opportunity offers both professional growth and meaningful impact.