CAMHS Practice Development Nurse

CAMHS Practice Development Nurse

Band 7 - Practice Development Manager, full time

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, full time opening. Closing date: 23 February 2026.

This post will support and deputise for the Inpatient Matron who provides input across National & Specialist CAMHS. It is a key role to contribute to assuring service quality and standards by using specialist knowledge and breadth of understanding of child and adolescent mental health theories, evidence-based assessments and interventions.

• Co-ordinate training, education and development for nursing staff across CAMHS, working closely with senior staff including Managers, Matron's and Clinical Service Manager.
• Jointly develop the Training and Development Strategy with the Modern Matron and General Manager.
• Support operational colleagues and provide specific professional advice (e.g. physical healthcare), contributing to the leadership and development of the units.
• Benchmark and audit the service provided, carrying out audits as required.
• Co-ordinate the preceptorship programme for newly qualified nurses and trainee Band 4 Nursing Associates, ensuring induction expectations are met and competencies completed.
• Use and maintain skilled standards of personal professional clinical practice in the treatment modalities required by the children and young people treated by the teams and be a resource to the whole service in maintaining the skills of others.

The specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services within the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust have a formidable reputation nationally and internationally. Clinical practice has thrived on mutually supportive links with the Institute of Psychiatry and with the Medical Research Council Child Psychiatry Unit.

The National and Specialist in‑patient services are comprised of three units: the Bethlem Adolescent Unit and Tyson East Two Adolescent Unit; both General Adolescent Units based at the Bethlem Royal Hospital. And the Bethlem Adolescent PICU, a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit due to open at the Bethlem in 2026. Tyson East Two Adolescent Unit is due to relocate to the Maudsley Hospital in late 2026.

All three inpatient services treat complex cases including children and young people with neuropsychiatric conditions, obsessive‑compulsive disorder, psychotic and affective disorders.

This post sits within the Senior Nursing & Quality Team, overseen by the Head of Nursing & Quality.

• Raise awareness of standards in the units, leading the implementation and ongoing monitoring as required (specifically CQC and QNIC).
• Give advice on environmental issues which affect CAMHS.
• Contribute to ensuring that evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used within and across the teams, ensuring staff are adequately trained and supervised.
• Measure outcomes of treatment within the teams and make changes to maximise clinical effectiveness.
• Contribute to the recruitment of a safe and proficient nursing workforce.
• Co‑ordinate training, education and development across the unit, working closely with the Matrons and managers.
• Provide nursing clinical supervision and staff professional development across the units, including production of personal development plans and training for professional students, trainees and junior staff.
• Assist the matrons with audits of patient care and ensure action plans relating to clinical standards are delivered.
• Undertake a limited amount of direct clinical work demonstrating best practice and role modelling to other staff.
• Maintain good working relationships and clear lines of communication with all colleagues, professionals, agencies and departments.
• Act respectfully, honestly and with integrity at all times.
• Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of individual clinician and clinical team performance management.
• Work with complaints, incidents and Child Protection services inside the Trust and with external agencies (e.g. Safeguarding Boards), including supervision of clinical practice and investigations.
• Ensure compliance with the Mental Health Act (2006).
• Maintain own CPD to meet the…