Welcome to CNWL Mental Health Inpatient Services for Children and Young People. Collingham Child and Family Centre is one of six National 7 Day Inpatient settings, that work in partnership with Chelsea Hospital Schools for children aged 5 - 13 years old. We are currently recruiting into an CAMHS Nursing Associate position.

Nestled between High Street Kensington & Earls Court, Collingham is a Tier 4 Children’s Mental Health Unit which provides acute inpatient and schooling for young people with a range of with complex mental health needs and behavioural problems.

The role consists of a flexible shift pattern: Early 07:30 - 15:30, Late 12:30 - 20:30, Nights 20:00 - 08:00. This is a 24/7 service.

We’re passionate about young people’s mental health outcomes, and strive to deliver first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care. At Collingham you will be supporting children and their families to build resilience, better coping strategies and healthy relationships through therapeutic intervention and structured meaningful activity. We appreciate that not everyone has provided care for young people in an inpatient setting, but if you’re a Registered Nursing Associate, we’d love to hear from you.

The team consists of nursing, psychology, occupational therapists, systemic psychotherapists, support workers, ward manager, matron and psychiatry. The leads of the service are a Matron, Therapy Lead, and Consultant Psychiatrist, and is linked to the CAMHS service line which is overseen by Head of Tier 4 services as well as Clinical and Service Directors for CAMHS and Eating Disorders.

The team provides intensive assessment and treatment for children with complex emotional, behavioural and psychological difficulties, offering intensive work with families/parents and carers to develop their parenting skills.

Our highly experienced and dedicated multidisciplinary team is committed to offering the highest standards of care to help children and families regain their self-confidence. Adopting a solution focused approach for hard to manage problems and steer a course towards optimism, newly realised potential and a positive future for the child and their family network.

CNWL have a pioneering history improving health outcomes, by providing physical and mental health services at GPs, clinics, hospitals, and in the community. To find out more about CAMHS inpatients please CLICK HERE

Staff have protected monthly clinical supervision & training time, accompanied by a weekly teaching session, and reflective practice slots. We support training in Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). We develop your experience for both Leadership and Clinical roles. If you are interested please contact us, or see our “Staff rewards and wellbeing handbook”.

We take flexible working seriously and are open to discussion to best meet our workforce’s work life needs.

Our lovely site in Kensington is a 10-minute walk from High Street Kensington tube and 10-minute walk from Earls Court Station.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and patients when working on our healthcare settings.

Be accountable for your practice to a registered nurse

Participate in regular supervision with that registered nurse

Supervise, help train and delegate to other members of the team as appropriate e.g. Health Care Assistants

Participate in team meetings and help develop the team

Contributing to creating and maintaining a high performing team by:

communicating well with all members of the team

understanding how your role helps the team achieve its objective

understanding the roles of different team members and how they help the team achieve its’ objectives

using supervision and team meetings to reflect on your own practice regularly

Develop skills in relation to coaching/teaching individuals/carers/other staff

Engage in reflective practice including management of self and reflection on own reactions, asking questions and reflecting on answers given

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification