CAMHS Community Mental Health Nurse

NHS Orkney is committed to delivering excellent care to our 22,000 residents. Whether you’re new to the NHS or bringing experience from elsewhere, your skills will make a real difference.

Our modern healthcare facility, The Balfour, brings together inpatient care, emergency services, outpatient clinics, diagnostics, GP practices and the Scottish Ambulance Service. We’re also investing in services across our outer isles, ensuring high-quality care reaches every corner of Orkney.

We are guided by our core values that shape everything we do – Open and honest, Respect and Kindness – from how we care for our patients to how we support each other as colleagues.

With over 70 islands – 20 of them inhabited – Orkney offers a unique blend of natural beauty, close-knit community and an opportunity for adventure. From dramatic coastlines and rare wildlife to rich cultural traditions and active lifestyles, it’s a place where compassion thrives and every day brings something new. Regularly named one of the UK’s best places to live, Orkney offers a lifestyle that’s both fulfilling and inspiring.

This role will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, delivering and evaluating a range of mental health interventions for children and young people across Orkney who are experiencing mental health difficulties of varying severity and complexity.

You will hold continuing responsibility for the effective management of an allocated caseload, ensuring that care and interventions are responsive to the individual needs of children, young people and their families.

An important aspect of the role will be providing specialist consultation, training and professional support to colleagues across health and social care, as well as partner agencies including Social Work, Education and the voluntary sector. You will work collaboratively with services across Orkney to support joined-up approaches to care and promote positive psychological health and wellbeing among children and young people.

You will be a first-level Registered Mental Health Nurse with appropriate post-registration experience in a relevant clinical setting and a good understanding of the mental health needs of children and young people. You will be able to demonstrate ongoing continuous professional development, alongside a sound knowledge of relevant mental health and children’s legislation, policies and procedures.

You will have well-developed interpersonal, communication, leadership, planning and organisational skills, with the confidence to provide specialist advice based on your knowledge and experience. You should be comfortable working effectively as part of a multidisciplinary and multi‑agency team, while also being able to practise with an appropriate degree of clinical autonomy under clinical supervision.

You will have experience in risk assessment and risk management, including the ability to develop and implement safety plans, and be able to demonstrate a range of therapeutic skills and approaches. A trauma-informed approach to practice is also essential.

You will have the ability to manage, lead, teach and supervise junior staff, with evidence of contributing to their ongoing development. Strong presentation, supervision and time‑management skills are also required.

It is essential that the post holder has access to transport and if driving themselves, should hold a full driving licence. If by virtue of a disablement, an applicant has the qualifications to perform the post but cannot drive, then the possibility of adjustments to arrange transport will be considered.

This post will be based at Vaenta

The successful candidate…