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Internal Clinical Team
Hybrid
Employed
22.5-37.5 Hours Per week
Canterbury
CT1 3AS
About Us
Psicon is a specialist neurodevelopmental service working both privately and with various NHS trusts to provide autism and ADHD assessments. We are an independent organisation, but most of our work is for the NHS, whom we are proud to support. Assessments are carried out by our team of associate clinicians from a range of clinical backgrounds, in satellite clinics across the country and remotely. Psicon is committed to offering the best psychological support and healthcare available. We take an innovative approach to the delivery of our services and ensure that they are of the highest standards in the industry.
Purpose of the Role
Our Safeguarding Nurse role will be instrumental in leading on clinical risk assessments and supervision within Psicon’s triage function. You will be supporting the delivery of neurodevelopmental assessments developing and delivering post-diagnostic therapeutic interventions for clients with ADHD and/or autism. You experience will be impactful and vital in ensuring safe, compassionate, and person-centred care for clients accessing Psicon’s NHS and private pathways.
Key Responsibilities
* Clinical Risk Assessment and Management
* Act as clinical lead for triage-stage risk assessment across referrals
* Review and respond to risk concerns raised by the triage team
* Carry out structured clinical risk assessments and formulate appropriate risk responses
* Liaise with Clinical Leads, Safeguarding Leads, and GPs where needed
* Escalate significant or complex risks through appropriate governance channels
* Triage Team Supervision and Support
* Provide clinical supervision to assistant psychologists and psychology assistants
* Guide formulation and escalation decisions in triage
* Support consistent use of Psicon’s screening protocols and documentation standards
* Assessment Delivery
* Deliver ADHD assessments (structured clinical interviews and scoring tool integration)
* For adult nurse: deliver ADOS-2 assessments (training will be provided if needed)
* Ensure documentation aligns with Psicon’s clinical governance standards and reporting templates
* Post-Diagnostic Therapeutic Interventions
* Design and deliver group-based therapeutic sessions for clients following diagnosis
* Offer brief individual therapeutic support to clients where appropriate
* Tailor interventions to neurodivergent presentations (e.g. executive functioning, emotional regulation, self-esteem, identity)
* Work collaboratively with the wider therapy and wellbeing teams to ensure consistency and effectiveness
* Participate in outcome measurement and feedback gathering to inform ongoing improvement
* Governance and Quality
* Attend and contribute to Clinical Governance Subgroups, especially those relating to quality and risk
* Lead and/or contribute to clinical audits relating to triage, risk documentation, or assessment quality
* Support service learning and improvement initiatives, including PSIRF reviews where relevant
* Collaborative Working
* Work alongside Clinical Leads, Service Managers, and the Director of Nursing
* Participate in multidisciplinary case discussions
* Ensure smooth and safe transition between triage, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment/support
Key Criteria
Essential
Desirable
Registered Mental Health Nurse (NMC)
Trained in ADOS-2 (adult nurse only)
Experience in CAMHS or adult mental health
Experience delivering neurodiversity-affirming therapy
Strong risk assessment and clinical formulation skills
Familiarity with PSIRF or CQC frameworks
Experience supervising non-qualified staff
Group therapy experience
Confidence working in remote/digital settings
Background in autism or ADHD services
Collaborative, person-centred approach
Experience contributing to clinical governance
Working at Psicon
We value our employees as an integral part of our service delivery and believe in recruiting and investing in the best employees. We pride ourselves in providing our employees with the opportunities and resources to achieve their potential. We are keen to provide a vibrant, fun yet challenging working environment for our team who share in our core values of trust, integrity, commitment and kindness and work collaboratively to achieve our company goals of;
* The best possible customer service.
* The most efficient and effective clinical work.
* A thriving and engaged workforce.
* A truly inclusive organisation.
Benefits Include
* Enhanced annual leave of 32 days a year (inclusive of bank holidays).
* Flexible annual leave scheme providing the ability to buy or sell back additional days.
* Well-being days.
* Pension scheme (with the option of enhancing via salary sacrifice).
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Birthday lie in.
* Free breakfast, including 'pastry Mondays'.
* Funded social events.
* Staff well-being bursary scheme.
Additional Information / Contacting Us
* For further information please email recruitment@psicon.co.uk or call the Psicon Recruitment Team on 01227 202155 for more information.
* Should you wish to discuss any reasonable adjustments or assistance you might need in the application or interview process, please contact our Recruitment Team and we will do our best to support you.
* Please note, Psicon operate a ‘safer recruitment’ policy and will require candidates to undergo full referencing (covering a 3-year period), an enhanced DBS check, provide evidence of up-to-date mandatory training, the right to live and work in the UK.
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