Community Psychiatric Nurse (Child and Adolescent)
Job reference: 263612
Salary: Band 6 (£43,231 - £52,679)
Job closing date: 18/11/2026
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 36
Location: Stornoway Health Centre
Department: CAMHS

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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.

Band 6 £43,231 - £52,679 per annum
Plus Distant Islands Allowance of £1,461 per annum
36 hours per week
Permanent post

This is an exciting opportunity to work and become an invaluable member within our CAMHs multi-disciplinary team in the Western Isles. The post holder will work within specialist tiers of CAMHs assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care delivered to Tier 3 and 4 of CAMHs, through a needs led approach.

The successful applicant will contribute to multiagency GIRFEC structures at Tier 2 to initiate, develop, co-ordinate and deliver comprehensive treatment programmes for children young people and their families to enable optimal functioning within the patient's own personal, social and environmental context.

This post is based in the Western Isles CAMHS service which includes satellite provision to the Uists and Barra. This post aims to ensure the provision of high-quality mental health service for children, young people and their families in the Western Isles.

For further information regarding this post, please contact Maggie.Macleod@nhs.scot

The successful applicant will be required to register with the PVG Scheme (Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme). This post is not eligible for relocation expenses.

All NHS Western Isles vacancies appear on the NHS Scotland website: apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk, along with a job description.

If you have any further queries, please contact Tel: 01851 762027

CLOSING DATE: 18/11/2026

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