CAMHS Substance Misuse Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint an able and enthusiastic mental health nurse to provide a highly specialist substance misuse treatment service for young people in Bexley.

Bexley CAMHS is a friendly, busy and thriving CYP IAPT service, regarded as an accessible and effective service. Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health, learning disabilities and community services to the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. The Trust has recently been rated as Good by the CQC and has a culture of supporting staff whilst providing excellent services within a robust clinical governance framework.

The post holder will be a Registered Nurse Mental Health with a post-registration training in substance misuse and a minimum of 2 years previous experience of working with children, adolescents and families.

For further enquiries please contact: Shamara Bailey, CAMHS Operational Manager or Andy Haider, Adolescent Team Manager on 020 3260 5200

• The post holder will ensure that they deliver a flexible, responsive service to young people; the post is based in CAMHS Adolescent Team. This ensures recognising the important link between mental health and substance misuse.
• The service will be delivered within the clinic and on an outreach basis in settings such as YOS (Bexley Civic), Bexley Youth Advice and the community.
• It is essential the post holder can manage their clinical, administration and travel time efficiently and meet with young people in different locations when required.
• The post holder will also be expected to provide specialist advice, support and consultation to professional colleagues internal and external to the Trust.
• You will be expected work as a positive member of the multi-disciplinary teams and wider CAMH service.

Oxleas – About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people

This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Andy Haider Job title: Adolescent Team Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 02032605200