Clinical Nurse Specialist

Clinical Nurse Specialist – Merton CAMHS

The closing date is 05 July 2026.

Come and join our nursing team in Merton CAMHS. We have developed an opportunity for a Nurse Prescriber with previous CAMHS experience working across our Single Point of Access (SPA) and Tier 3 team, supporting the ADHD pathway.

The service operates within South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust, providing outpatient and consultation services to children and adolescents with a range of mental health and developmental difficulties.

• Manage a highly specialist service for children and young people with ADHD and comorbid mental health difficulties, including assessment and medication review clinics.
• Analyze complex information to plan and manage assessment and treatment of CYP with ADHD and co‑morbid conditions.
• Provide expertise and advice on client care to other team members and external partners.
• Offer training in assessment and interventions for CYP with ADHD to CAMHS and other professional networks.
• Liaise with medical colleagues, partner agencies and adult mental health professionals across a range of settings.
• Work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and Trust guidelines.
• Contribute to policy, service development, research, service evaluation and audit.
• Work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team and in partnership with medical colleagues to deliver timely and efficient treatment.
• Actively prescribe for service users once registered with the professional and Trust registers.
• Maintain a defined caseload where non‑medical prescribing enhances service delivery.
• Conduct comprehensive treatment reviews and maintain concordance with prescribed medicines.
• Access CPD opportunities for non‑medical prescribing via Trust‑based supervision groups and workshops.
• Participate in research and audit programmes pertaining to non‑medical prescribing.

• First‑level nursing qualification (registration RMN or RSCN or HV) with related CAMHS experience and postgraduate MSc‑level qualification or equivalent.
• Professional development in child and adolescent mental health, including evidence of clinical, audit or research presentations at local and national events.
• Professional registration with a statutory body such as the Nursing Midwifery Council, General Social Care Council, Health Professionals Council or an applicable psychological or psychotherapy body.
• Non‑medical prescriber with appropriate NMC registration.
• Formal training in supervision.
• Additional specialist post‑qualification training such as ADOS, SAVRY, ADI, CAI, Fostering Changes or Parent/Child Game.

• MSc qualification related to or equivalent, with evidence of a comprehensive portfolio including specialist mental health assessment and treatment of children and young people.
• Minimum 12 months experience as a non‑medical prescriber within a CAMHS service.
• Experience working with children and young people with ADHD.
• Experience managing complex and high‑risk cases.
• Experience providing consultation to, and clinical supervision of, other staff.
• Experience delivering teaching and training to multidisciplinary groups.
• Experience working with diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Experience developing and conducting research projects with troubled children and young people.
• Experience supervising staff.
• Experience clinical leadership and support across disciplines, including recruitment, supervision and appraisal.
• Experience multi‑agency collaboration and integrated working.

This post requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.

All offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available unless expressly stated.

Salary: £63,665 to £70,887 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs.