Clinical Team Leader - Collingham Child and Family Centre


Company:	CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£47,951 - £56,863 Per annum incl. HCAS
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, W8 5LP
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	11 Nov 2026
Closing date:	11 Dec 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

Welcome to CNWL Mental Health Inpatient Services for Children and Young People. Collingham Child and Family Centre is a National inpatient unit looking after children under the age of 13. We are looking to recruit Clinical Team Leaders from all nursing backgrounds to broaden and develop the experience and skill mix available to Children at Collingham Child and Family Centre.

We need innovative, dynamic people interested in developing their leadership skills in a supportive and highly skilled team. There will be opportunities to develop your therapeutic skills with our psychology, family therapy and occupational therapy leads.

Collingham Child and Family Centre CNWL NHS inpatient care team within the royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea provides mental and emotional health services to children under the age of 13, their families and carers experiencing and needing help with thoughts feelings, difficult experiences, emotional, relationship and behavioural difficulties in family life, school or the wider world. These include bullying, eating difficulties, family issues, anger, sadness, worry, finding it hard to regulate emotions.

We appreciate that not everyone has provided care for young people, but if you’re a Registered Paediatric, General, Mental Health or Learning Disabilities Nurse, with experience of working on a ward, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re passionate about Children’s mental health outcomes, and strive to deliver first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care. Here at Collingham Child and Family Centre you will be supporting children to build a resilience, better coping strategies and healthy relationships.

Who are we?

The team consists of one consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, junior doctors, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, family therapists, support workers, a ward manager and matron. We also have a fantastic on-site school with an outstanding team of teachers and visiting tutors for music, art therapy and drama therapy.

What do we do?

We work closely with children and their families to understand their problems, provide a comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, formulation and treatment plan to allow for them to return to their homes safely as quickly as possible. We treat a wide variety of psychiatric illnesses such as psychosis, mania, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and post traumatic stress disorder.

CNWL have a pioneering history improving health outcomes in people’s lives, 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.

We understand that staff are the heartbeat of our organisation, and offer substantial range of benefits locally, in addition to the standard NHS discounts.

We takeflexible workingseriously, and will always be open to discussion to meet our workforces competing work life demands.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification

Typical tasks for this role?

• To support the ward manager in leading day-to-day running of the ward.

• To lead on champion roles and drive continuous improvement within the nursing team.

• To lead on nursing feedback in ward round and other professional meetings.

• To take on the Primary Nurse role for individual young people.

• To assist in the development of junior staff and act as a role model to them.

• To ensure the provision of excellent, evidence-based nursing care for the children, young people (CYP) and their families at all times.

• To put children, young people, their families and carers at the centre of everything we do.

• To ensure the provision of a welcoming, caring, clean and safe environment for the CYP and their families.

• Recognising escalation in behaviour or shift in ward dynamics and proactively address this with staff or young people.

• Monitoring observations and ensuring safe practice and act appropriately and in line with unit procedure.

• Supervising junior staff and students to ensure the delivery of safe and effective care.

This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Nov 2026

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