Job summary
Band 8A Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist - Self Harm and Risk Case Management (CAMHS)

Sutton CAMHS | 30 hours per week | Fixed term - 12 month

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic Mental Health Nurse to join Sutton CAMHS as a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist leading on self-harm and risk case management.

The successful candidate will provide specialist assessment, formulation and intervention for children and young people presenting with self-harm, suicidal ideation, emotional dysregulation and complex risk. They will offer consultation and clinical leadership across the service, support safeguarding and risk management processes, provide supervision to colleagues, and contribute to service development.

Main duties of the job
We are particularly interested in applicants with skills and experience in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) or delivering DBT-informed interventions. This role will support the development of psychologically informed practice across the service and promote evidence-based approaches to managing risk and emotional distress.

Applicants must have:

• Current NMC registration as a Registered Mental Health Nurse.
• Significant CAMHS experience.
• Extensive experience working with self-harm, suicidality and complex risk.
• Strong risk assessment, formulation and care planning skills.
• Experience of clinical leadership and supervision.
• DBT training or experience delivering DBT-informed interventions.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic and supportive team committed to improving outcomes for children, young people and families.

For further information or an informal discussion, please contact the recruiting manager.

Job responsibilities
The post is located in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Directorate of South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. The Trust is responsible for the provision of mental health services to the population of Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston and Richmond, as well as providing a range of specialist services to a wider, regional and national catchment area.

Since a major reorganisation of CAMHS services in 2014, the CAMHS directorate has existed as locality Tier 3 teams based in each borough, and dedicated services (for eating disorders, complex learning disability, and neurodevelopmental assessment) based at Springfield Hospital.

All teams are multi-disciplinary with an evolving skill set. Skills evolution is led by expressed patient need (focusing on patient value) captured through the use of up-to-date information system able to report clinical outcomes in line with the CYP IAPT programme.

This post is part of the development of CAMHS teams to promote wellbeing and management of self-harm together with our partners e.g. schools, local authority teams.

The post holder will work closely with CAMHS multi-disciplinary, integrated services including Single Point of Access, Tier 3, schools, Local authority professional, CECS.

The directorate uses IAPTus as the electronic clinical record (ECR) and information system.

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Person Specification
Experience - Essential

• Significant post qualification experience
• Significant experience of working with self-harm
• Significant experience of working with adolescents with mental health difficulties
• Clinical risk assessment and management of vulnerable client groups
• Leadership experience
• Experience of developing services and influencing and managing a change process
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Providing and receiving supervision
• Establishing collaborative relationships across professional groups and organisations and managing those relationships with sensitivity and diplomacy

Experience - Desirable

• Experience of Racial Awareness/Diversity Training
• Conducting service evaluations
• Working collaboratively with service users and/or carers to develop services
• Work in a range of settings e.g. inpatient, community, residential
• Experience of working in a community setting
• Coaching skills, qualification.

Training and Qualifications - Essential

• First degree in mental health nursing
• Professional registration with NMC
• Evidence of relevant professional development

Training and Qualifications - Desirable

• Further post registration training in child and adolescent mental health
• Supervision training
• An appropriate professional qualification to supervise students in training (e.g. ENB 998 or Practice Teacher Award)
• A postgraduate qualification in a therapeutic modality relevant to child mental health.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Address: Jubilee Health Centre, 6 Stanley Park Road, Wallington, SM6 0EX, United Kingdom

Contact: Tom Pursey, Service Manager, Tom.Pursey@swlstg.nhs.uk, 07783892996

Reference number: 294-CAMHS-8345616-AZ-A
Closing date: 19 November 2026

Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.