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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.
This post is part of the Regional Tier 4 CAMHS Network for the North of Scotland. The network role is to provide services to those aged 12-18 suffering from severe mental ill-health in NHS highland. This position is central to the network in supporting young people across the North of Scotland and Highland developing effective links with local Board CAMHS teams, the Regional Inpatient Unit which form a key part of this service as well as other key stakeholders pertinent to CAMHS delivery across North of Scotland e.g. Local Authority partners.
The partner Health Boards are NHS Grampian, NHS Highland, NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland, NHS Tayside and NHS Western Isles.
The network will be supported by the North Scotland CAMHS inpatient unit providing 12 beds within a purpose built facility in Dundee.
The Network Liaison Nurse will have a lead role in an intensive integrated service, with overall responsibility for the nursing management of a caseload of young people presenting with a diversity of complex mental health needs. You will work autonomously as an expert practitioner to ensure that care needs are assessed and programmes of care developed, implemented and evaluated in partnership with patients and families. They will also provide specialist advice to healthcare
professionals, other agencies, carers, relatives and children and young people.
You will be accountable to the Senior Nurse based in Tayside, who is charged with the operation of this regional service. You will significantly contribute to developing positive partnerships across Boards and with Local Authorities to ensure a continued strategic shared vision for the network. You will possess a contemporary knowledge in CAMHS practice, drivers and legislation and will promote high quality patient centred care in line with national strategies and standards.
You will be a first level registered Mental Health Nurse (UK NMC Sub-part 1: Mental Health Level 1) educated to degree level, or with a portfolio of evidence demonstrating equivalent experience at that level, with evidence of ongoing professional development with post-registration experience in CAMHS. Your experience base will include having delivered care to young people with a Tier 4 level of need.
The agreed network model requires that you be based in Inverness, there will be a requirement to travel throughout the network areas, which may require overnight stays.
The NOS CAMHS Network is a Values Based Organisation and is both passionate about and committed to the values of NHS Scotland which are:
· Dignity and Respect
· Openness, Honest and Responsibility
· Quality and Teamwork
· Care and Compassion
We have a structured staff supervision system and offer professional support through our clinical networks. We are committed to regular in-service training and personal and professional development.
Informal enquiries to: Jean Thomson Senior Nurse
Advanced Nurse Practitioner on 01382 346554
Hours of work are: 37.5 per week
Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.