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Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service Clinician
Melrose On-site 5-10 yrs exp Hospitals and Health Care 7,612 employees
Mental health assessmentTherapeutic interventionsCaseload managementMulti-disciplinary team workingCommunity-based care
Requirements
Applicants must be qualified as Registered Mental Health Nurses or Occupational Therapists with significant experience in a Child & Adolescent Mental Health setting. Candidates must also possess the ability to travel across Fife and demonstrate the right to work in the UK.
Job Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Fife Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). This allows a suitably qualified individual to take on the role of CAMHS Clinician across our East & West Core Teams.
This post seeks to enhance the current provision for children and young people with complex mental health difficulties. You will join a well established, multi-disciplinary team with the aim of providing effective and timely community based assessments and therapeutic interventions.
You will be required to manage an individual caseload and be able to assess and deliver a range of therapeutic interventions on an individual, family and group basis to children and young people with a wide range of mental health difficulties. The post holders will also be able to demonstrate the ability to work autonomously in a wide variety of hospital and community settings. Fife CAMHS is committed to the development of its staff group and actively encourages participation in the NES CAMHS development programme as well as bespoke training based on individual and service needs.
Applications are invited from individuals who are passionate about children’s mental health and are qualified as Registered Mental Health Nurses or Occupational Therapists. Evidence of continuous professional development is welcomed along with the ability to demonstrate skills and competencies normally associated with significant experience in a Child & Adolescent Mental Health setting. Applicants will be able to respond to the needs of the service and the locality which will include the ability to travel across Fife and wider as required.
For informal enquiries please contact Mrs Jane Sinclair, Interim CAMHS Clinical Service Manager by e-mail at jane.sinclair3@nhs.scot or call 01334 696107 or Mrs Rebecca Beveridge, Core Service Lead by e-mail at rebecca.beveridge@nhs.scot or call 01334 696250
AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot can be great for planning and preparing your applicationbut your answers must be your own.
Show us the real you: Your application should reflect your skills, experience, and motivations authentically.
Use AI wisely: It’s fine to use AI for ideas or to check spelling and grammar, but don’t let it write your answers.
Why this matters: Applications that rely on AI-generated content may be withdrawn. By applying, you confirm your responses are based on your own knowledge and achievements.
Tip: Think of AI as a helper, not a substitute. We want to understand younot an AI tool.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. All applicants are required to confirm their right to work in the UK in their application. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK), European Community (EC) or European Economic Area National please state the visa category under which you are legally entitled to work in the UK on your application form and the expiry date of your leave to remain in the UK
For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be foundin the government website.
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
This post seeks to enhance the current provision for children and young people with complex mental health difficulties. You will join a well established, multi-disciplinary team with the aim of providing effective and timely community based assessments and therapeutic interventions.
You will be required to manage an individual caseload and be able to assess and deliver a range of therapeutic interventions on an individual, family and group basis to children and young people with a wide range of mental health difficulties. The post holders will also be able to demonstrate the ability to work autonomously in a wide variety of hospital and community settings. Fife CAMHS is committed to the development of its staff group and actively encourages participation in the NES CAMHS development programme as well as bespoke training based on individual and service needs.
Applications are invited from individuals who are passionate about children’s mental health and are qualified as Registered Mental Health Nurses or Occupational Therapists. Evidence of continuous professional development is welcomed along with the ability to demonstrate skills and competencies normally associated with significant experience in a Child & Adolescent Mental Health setting. Applicants will be able to respond to the needs of the service and the locality which will include the ability to travel across Fife and wider as required.
For informal enquiries please contact Mrs Jane Sinclair, Interim CAMHS Clinical Service Manager by e-mail at jane.sinclair3@nhs.scot or call 01334 696107 or Mrs Rebecca Beveridge, Core Service Lead by e-mail at rebecca.beveridge@nhs.scot or call 01334 696250
AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot can be great for planning and preparing your applicationbut your answers must be your own.
Show us the real you: Your application should reflect your skills, experience, and motivations authentically.
Use AI wisely: It’s fine to use AI for ideas or to check spelling and grammar, but don’t let it write your answers.
Why this matters: Applications that rely on AI-generated content may be withdrawn. By applying, you confirm your responses are based on your own knowledge and achievements.
Tip: Think of AI as a helper, not a substitute. We want to understand younot an AI tool.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. All applicants are required to confirm their right to work in the UK in their application. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK), European Community (EC) or European Economic Area National please state the visa category under which you are legally entitled to work in the UK on your application form and the expiry date of your leave to remain in the UK
For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be foundin the government website.
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Education
Professional Certificate
Skills
Mental health assessmentTherapeutic interventionsCaseload managementMulti-disciplinary team workingCommunity-based careRegistered mental health nursingOccupational therapyClinical documentationAutonomous working