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Clinical Nurse Specialist (RMN)- Core & Eating Disorders - Yorkshire
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Main area Clinical Nurse Specialist (RMN) - Core & Eating Disorders Grade 1 Contract Permanent: Part Time Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (Permanent- 30 hours per week (Mon - Fri work pattern to be negotiated (plus on call including weekends))) Job ref Site Titan Business Centre Town Birstall Salary £47,307 - £54,710 Per annum - Pro Rata - Dependant on experience Salary period Yearly Closing 25/01/2026 23:59
Job overview
Clinical Nurse Specialist (RMN) - Core & Eating Disorders
Permanent- Part Time 30 hours per week (Mon - Fri plus on call, including weekends)
£47307 - £54710 pro rata based on 30 hours per week, Dependent on Experience
Hybrid Working – Successful Applicants will be based from our Hub in Birstall and will provide clinical support to sites in Yorkshire, travel to services will be required in Huddersfield and Leeds.
Applicants must be available and prepared to be on-site during working hours as required by the organisation, with flexible home-working around these times. We are unable to guarantee what days/times an applicant will be working from home and diaries are managed autonomously by individual practitioners based on service need.
Applications may be considered from RNLD with relevant experience in mental health/trauma informed care, and Core and Eating disorders. Please ensure that you review the job description and our company information thoroughly and describe your relevant experience in your person specification. If you wish to speak to someone prior to making an application please do. The salary will be commensurate with the role.
Main duties of the job
Essential Criteria:
Registered Nurse (RMN)
Band 6 or above experience
Legislative knowledge and experience
Experience of working with young people with complex mental health difficulties and neurodiversity
Evidence of continued professional development
Have access to a vehicle for work purposes with the ability to travel to the sites within the Care in Mind portfolio.
Desirable Criteria:
Case Management experience within a health & social care setting
Accredited with safeguard qualification
Experience of working in a community setting
Experience of working within a secure setting
Working for our organisation
Company Benefits
2. Minimum 30 days holiday
3. An additional day off each year for your birthday
4. Enhanced company sick pay
5. Enhanced company pension
6. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
7. Paid time off for fertility treatment
8. Life Assurance (2 x annual salary)
9. Healthcare CashPlan with costs provided towards dental and optical care and a range of other healthcare treatments and benefits including discounted gym memberships, online shopping discounts.
10. Employee Assistance Programme/24-hour Counselling Service.
11. Free eye tests and various other benefits.
12. Excellent Learning and Development opportunities (Level 3 in Adult Health & Social Care and support with completion of the Care Certificate)
13. Paid Training, Induction and DBS check.
14. We are a Mindful & Disability Confident Employer.
15. We are a supporter of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter.
16. We are a Menopause Friendly Organisation.
17. Long service awards.
18. Social events including a Christmas party.
19. Blue Light Card to access further shopping discounts
20. Refer a Friend Scheme (Up to £500 per referral)
21. Free onsite parking
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Care in Mind are a CQC registered specialist service providing NHS funded intensive mental health packages and residential placements for complex young people aged 16-30 often transitioning from inpatient or secure settings. We are a clinically led service working with young people with a history of complex trauma and personality disorders. Our friendly team is made up of skilled nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists and specialist residential staff.
The Post Holder will also contribute to training and education of the residential team as well as facilitating reflective practice sessions to ensure all intervention is effective and evidence based. The Post Holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
The post holder will be expected to work as an integral part of a multidisciplinary core team in risk management and case formulation for cases of concern referred to the service.
The role requires the ability to work collaboratively, efficiently and effectively with mental health services, whilst maintaining the need to work safely and sensitively with service users present with a full range of clinical needs and risk behaviours, and the ability to engage with, and respond to, highly complex clinical, professional and ethical challenges and demands on clinicians and services.
Provide a specialist assessment and treatment service based upon comprehensive assessment of the young people’s needs from a variety of sources, including psychological assessments, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, as well as interviews with young people, family members and others involved in the young person’s care.
Supporting colleagues and residential staff to reflect on their practice and empathy levels, with reference to Young Person formulation and personal/professional boundaries.
Provide weekly 1:1 session with each young person on your caseload, supporting recovery-focused goal setting and care evaluation in line with the Care Programme Approach. You will be responsible for supporting the Young Person to acknowledge their needs and priorities for recovery, implementing interventions to support recovery toward greater independence. You will hold the Young Person’s risk formulation and understand their use of risk strategies, aiming to minimise harm caused to them whilst promoting choice and individual responsibility.
Support and deliver therapeutic group work.
Support the organisation on-call (nights and weekends as per rota)
Support duty cover for the organisation (during office hours)
Proactive stakeholder engagement with key stakeholders
Screening referrals
Assessing suitability of new clients
Delivering training
Supervision - line management of multi-agency professionals
Support systemic growth and development by engaging in working parties
Completing qualitative and quantitative audits and identifying any recurring themes with a solution focused outlook and a dedication to learning lessons and improving outcomes.
Provide advice and consultation in respect to individual cases within the wider MDT
Utilise outcome measures and feedback to improve clinical practice in line with clinical governance agendas
To engage in joint assessments and treatments with members of the multi-disciplinary team
Work across a number of settings, being involved in the dynamics of various different multidisciplinary teams and environments.
Please see the full job description attached for further information.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
22. Is a Registered Nurse (RMN)
Desirable criteria
23. Accredited safeguarding qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
24. Legislative knowledge and experience
25. Evidence of continued professional development
26. Experience of working with young people with complex mental health difficulties and neurodiversity.
27. Band 6 or above experience
28. Are you an RNLD with relevant experience in mental health/trauma informed care.
29. Nursing interventions for young people with eating disorders or willing to train towards this
Desirable criteria
30. Case management experience within a health and social care setting
31. Experience of working in a community setting
32. Experience of working within a secure setting
33. To understand clinical issues in relation to eating disorders
Skills
Essential criteria
34. IT literate with experience of working with Microsoft office applications
35. A willingness and ability to work flexibly
36. Ability to work confidently remotely and utilise platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom.
37. Have access to a vehicle for work purposes with the ability to travel to the sites within the Care in Mind portfolio
Other
Essential criteria
38. We will expect your values and behaviours to mirror those of Care in Mind, as illustrated on page 2 of this job description.
Additional Information
39. ·Please note that training will be 6 days held at our Head Office in Stockport – reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.
40. ·Please note that we do not accept CV’s and the application must be completed in full.
41. ·Care in Mind operates a safer recruitment process and as part of this process the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
42. ·While we value the use of AI technology to enhance our daily work, we also value the personal touch and urge applicants to write their supporting statement without the use of AI to emphasise their own unique experiences. It is also unacceptable to use AI to inflate skills and experiences on the application form.
43. ·We are an equal opportunities employer who values diversity and positively encourages applications of all ages from all sections of the community.
44. ·We reserve the right to close the advert early, should we appoint a suitable candidate.
45. ·Please note Care in Mind do not have a sponsorship licence and therefore unable to offer sponsorship to candidates requiring this now or in the future.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.