Clinical Specialist - CAMHS

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Clinical Specialist - CAMHS

The closing date is 16 October 2025

We are excited to advertise a full time band 7 Clinical Specialist post in the Selby Getting more help Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) team due to the current post holder emigrating.

This post is within the friendly Selby CAMHS team, we are a small team of professionals who offer support to children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties.

The successful candidate will provide clinical leadership for the team, and work in partnership with the local and wider clinical and operational leadership teams across the care group.

Selby CAMHS is a small team covering the Selby, Tadcaster and Pocklington. We offer ADHD assessment and intervention and Autism assessment in addition to generic mental health assessment and intervention.

We are looking for someone with a Professional registration which would include one of the following - Nursing, Occupational therapy or Social worker. Ideally with at least 2 years band 6 or similar experience.

Main duties of the job

We are keen to recruit an enthusiastic and creative clinical leader who is positive about supportive change and who will bring new ideas to the team

We are seeking someone who will:

• Be passionate about improving the mental health services and ensuring young people and their families are directed to and access the most suitable services for their needs.
• Be passionate about continuing to improve CAMHS services
• Be a driven, enthusiastic and forward thinking leader.
• Have extensive experience working in CAMHS services.
• Have significant experience of working with clinicians to achieve service improvement.
• Have a range of experience of leading projects or other clinically based initiatives which will have made a contribution to delivering innovative and high quality services to children and young people.
• Hold a relevant Professional Registration
• NMP qualification would be advantageous

About us

We are a friendly, supportive team from a variety of professional backgrounds including Nursing, Social Work, Psychiatrists and Psychologists within the CAMHS teams.

We enjoy being creative in our approach to patient care, and work collaboratively with young people at every opportunity

As an organisation we encourage learning and continued professional development.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person Specification Qualifications and Experience

• Registration with relevant professional body. (e.g. NMC, GMC, HCPC, Social Work-England)
• For nursing professions - Recognised Practice Supervisor and /or Practice Assessor, clinical educator or equivalent and
• Trained in providing clinical supervision
• For other professions - evidence of training in clinical supervision of other staff and able to demonstrate competence in this area of practice in clinical supervision of other staff and/or students/ trainees.
• All professions - Postgraduate diploma (or above) in a subject relevant to the area of practice.
• Or in the absence of postgraduate qualification o Willingness to work towards a postgraduate diploma within 2 years and
• Within the first year of being in post hold a recognised advanced clinical qualification or Masters level credits e.g., Intermediate Systemic Family Therapy/Post Grad diploma in CBT/British Isles Dialectical Behaviour Therapy /NMP e.g. dysphagia, posture, autism assessment, rebound, social prescribing, sensory processing, Approved Mental Health Professional, Practice Educator (level 3 Independent Prescriber) Note any other advanced qualification/masters credits not listed here as an example, must be clearly evidenced and listed as "advanced qualification or masters credits" - within the individuals application form
• And have Equivalent clinical experience to that of a Post Grad Diploma/master's level such as working as a band 6 (or above) in relevant clinical area with significant experience (see below under experience), together with evidence of relevant CPD
• Substantial clinical experience of working in relevant specialist area in collaboration with service users, families and relevant others or transferable experience of similar settings and willing to gain knowledge within first 12 months
• Experience of assessing and managing risk (harm to self, others and safeguarding)
• Substantial experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Involvement in quality improvement activities

Knowledge

• Extensive knowledge of current issues relating to health needs of patients in the field of practice, regionally and nationally
• Understanding and working knowledge of the legal framework and statutory obligations under the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act
• Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
• Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
• Clinical Governance and its application in practice
• Working knowledge of clinical medicines management
• Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment (depending on specialist area)

Other Requirements

• Evidence of partnership working with other agencies
• Ability to travel independently in accordance with Trust policies and service need
• This role requires a relevant DBS

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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