Rotational Nurse Posts
Within the CAMHS Academy in Hampshire and Isle of Wight
A nurse in CAMHS
Nursing is a highly skilled profession delivered by extraordinary people who make exceptional leaders. The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) settings are unique and diverse for nurses, as it provides opportunities for them to make a significant difference to the lives of children and young people who frequently experience a wide range of health inequalities.
Being a nurse within CAMHS provides rewarding experiences and opportunities, in terms of clinical practice and leadership roles working across many aspects of the holistic healthcare pathway, using a wide range of nursing and leadership skills with career progression through advanced autonomous clinical practice and leadership roles.
Benefits of rotational nursing
Rotations for graduate nurses provide a supported environment in which they can learn and consolidate a range of skills, both clinical and inter-personal. For experienced nurses, it is a way of adapting and diversifying within their role, allowing the exploration of different areas and different skills.
For organisations such as Hampshire and IOW Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, it provides a highly skilled, flexible workforce and research shows that staff who rotate have a better understanding of others’ roles which helps provide a better patient experience.
Rotations offer the additional benefit of supporting our succession plans as this rounded programme of clinical and leadership development ensures our future placement of nurse leaders and senior specialists in the field of Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
The rotational programme will seek to champion clinical leadership and career progression for registered nurses ensuring that this essential workforce feels supported, valued, and developed through a robust and well-governed career pathway programme.
The programme
The programme will run throughout the financial year training selected Band 5 nurses across the Rotational Programme for 66 weeks in total, with a commitment to complete the rotations across Liaison (Emergency department in hospital), In patient wards and Specialist community CAMHS services.
Each rotational nurse will be provided with outstanding clinical support and mentorship to enable full development in the expertise of each rotation, completing competencies to demonstrate depth and understanding, whilst also attending the Chartered Institute of Management (CIM) Level 5 leadership programme as part of the rotations.
At the end of the full programme and on completion of the competencies and leadership programme, each nurse will be guaranteed an interview for a Band 6 role.
Rotation continues for 15 weeks
Local Induction as part of new rotation 2 days
Rotation pause (refresh and reflect)
Length of rotation 22 weeks
Released to Leadership Programme
Rotation commences for 6 weeks
This diagram displays a typical rotation in one of the 3 placement services.