Senior Clinical Nurse

We are looking for a Senior Clinical Nurse who is enthusiastic, hard working and dedicated to working with Young People and Families to join our team at the Darwin Centre.

The successful applicant will have the opportunity to further develop their knowledge and clinical skills around Trauma informed care, Children's Safeguarding, intensive treatment options for a wide range of Mental Health disorders, formulating and managing risk and DBT skills. There will be chances to receive teaching sessions from other specialist CAMHS services such as The Croft Children's and Family unit and the Phoenix Eating Disorder unit. The three units work closely together and often team members from each unit spend time across each ward.

Our extensive Multidisciplinary team comprises of Occupational Therapy, Social work, Psychiatrist Consultant, Family Therapy, a Psychology team and Nursing team. There will also be exciting opportunity to work with external agencies and CPFT CAMH Home Treatment and Crisis Teams to provide collaborative treatment and care plans and to ensure smooth transition of care when leaving hospital.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will work alongside these professionals to provide wholistic care to the Young People and Families within our service.

The post holder will work alongside an experienced Multidisciplinary team with Young People and their families experiencing a wide range of Mental Health difficulties, to provide 24-hour inpatient care. You will be required to work alongside the Clinical Nurse specialist, Ward Manager and other senior nurses to act as a clinical and professional role model within the team. The Senior Clinical Nurse is aligned with the Darwin Centre Clinical Nurse Specialist and will support in continuing professional development on the ward, managing complex cases and service improvement.

As part of the team, you will be supporting the Young People and their families with tools to manage their Mental Health difficulties, helping them to develop plans to manage when they are experiencing Crisis and care plans to provide interventions which will make a lasting change across their life.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.