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Lothian CAMHS Unscheduled Care
We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced Band 6 Nurses, (Mental health or intellectual Disability), to join a fantastic, supportive, nurse led service and to be part of ongoing service development. Using a Bio-Psychosocial risk model, the CAMHS Unscheduled Care Team provides comprehensive and systemic mental health assessment, for young people up to the age of 18, who present in crisis. Some short term follow-up for children and young people is also a part of the role, as is liaison with other CAMHS clinicians, hospital staff across a range of clinical areas and wider services for children and young people.
The team is based across Edinburgh and St John’s Hospital, in Livingstone. Good support will be provided and there will be opportunities for further training.
For more information about this role and the skills/experience required, please click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. Following this, if you would like to have an informal discussion, please contact Charmian Currie, Team Manager, on 0131 312 1352 or email charmian.currie@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult), then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.