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NHS Forth Valley Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are recruiting an Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist to support and contribute to the developing neurodevelopmental pathway within the service. The service aims to support children and young people and their families that require specialist assessment and intervention relating to NDD allowing access to services and support at the earliest opportunity.
NHS Forth Valley CAMHS is a well established Multidisciplinary service with a newly appointed senior management team. The NDD Pathway has current resource from psychology, psychiatry, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and nursing.
We support children and young people aged from 0 to 18 years and their carers/families and offer a range of highly specialist physical and psychological assessments and interventions, which often includes multi-agency work with our partners. As part of a programme of transformational change, we are currently implementing the Choice And Partnership Approach (CAPA) and re-designing the mental health provision at all level of the service. We are committed to the aim of placing the needs of children and young people at the centre of the partnerships we establish with families. This post is an excellent opportunity to be part of a transforming service.
NHS Forth Valley CAMHS clinicians receive regular clinical and operational supervision and supportive line management, including job planning. As part of job planning, all staff are promoted to establish and develop areas of specialist clinical interest and we have a varied in-house programme of clinical Continued Professional Development. We also have very good links with national bodies and robust links with training institutions. 
The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information on this scheme can be found at www.disclosurescotland.co.uk
Informal enquiries to: Lesley Dunabie Department Manager and Head of Nursing for CAMHS on 01786454546
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NHS Forth Valley is positive about disabled people and is committed to offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Please contact the Recruitment Office on 0330 041 4694 if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to assist you with your application and/or interview.
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.