Job Overview
The Post Holder will also contribute to training and education of the residential team as well as facilitate 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 role requires the ability to work collaboratively, efficiently and effectively with mental health services whilst maintaining a safe and sensitive approach with service users presenting with a full range of clinical needs and risk behaviours. The Post Holder must engage with, and respond to, highly complex clinical, professional and ethical challenges and demands on clinicians and services.
Responsibilities
Provide a specialist assessment and treatment service based on comprehensive assessment of young people’s needs from a variety of sources, including psychological assessments, self‑report measures, rating scales, structured observations and interviews with young people, family members and other care professionals. Support colleagues and residential staff to reflect on practice and empathy levels, with reference to Young Person formulation and personal/professional boundaries. Provide weekly 1:1 sessions with each young person on the caseload, supporting recovery‑focused goal setting and care evaluation in line with the Care Programme Approach. Hold risk formulation, understand use of risk strategies, and aim to minimise harm while promoting choice and responsibility. Support and deliver therapeutic group work. Provide on‑call support during nights and weekends as per rota and cover duty for the organisation during office hours. Engage proactively with key stakeholders, screen referrals, assess suitability of new clients, deliver training, supervise and line‑manage multi‑agency professionals, support systemic growth and development, complete qualitative and quantitative audits, and provide advice and consultation in respect to individual cases within the wider MDT. Utilize outcome measures and feedback to improve clinical practice in line with clinical governance agendas, and engage in joint assessments and treatments with the multi‑disciplinary team across a number of settings.
Essential Criteria
* Registered Nurse (RMN) Band 6 or above experience
* Legislative knowledge and experience
* Experience working with young people with complex mental health difficulties and neurodiversity
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Access to a vehicle for work purposes with the ability to travel to sites within the Care in Mind portfolio
Desirable Criteria
* Case management experience within a health & social care setting
* Accreditation with safeguard qualification
* Experience working in a community setting
* Experience working within a secure setting
Company Information
Care in Mind is a CQC‑registered specialist service providing NHS‑funded intensive mental health packages and residential placements for complex young people aged 16‑30 who are often transitioning from inpatient or secure settings. We are a clinically led service working with young people who have a history of complex trauma and personality disorders. Our friendly team is made up of skilled nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists and specialist residential staff.
Work Schedule and Compensation
Permanent – 37.5 hours per week (Mon‑Fri plus on‑call). Salary: £47,307 – £54,710, dependent on experience. Successful applicants will be based from our Head Office in Stockport and will provide clinical support to two sites in Lancashire, travelling to services as required. Flexible home‑working is possible but hours on site are mandatory during working hours.
Benefits
* Minimum 30 days holiday
* Additional day off each year for your birthday
* Enhanced company sick pay
* Enhanced company pension
* Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
* Paid time off for fertility treatment
* Life assurance (2 × annual salary)
* Healthcare CashPlan with costs provided towards dental and optical care and a range of other healthcare treatments and benefits including discounted gym memberships and online shopping discounts
* Employee Assistance Programme / 24‑hour counselling service
* Free eye tests and various other benefits
* Excellent learning and development opportunities (Level 3 in Adult Health & Social Care and support with completion of the Care Certificate)
* Paid training, induction and DBS check
* Mindful & Disability Confident Employer
* Supporter of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter
* Menopause Friendly Organisation
* Long‑service awards
* Social events including a Christmas party
* Blue Light Card to access further shopping discounts
* Refer a Friend Scheme (Up to £500 per referral)
* Free onsite parking
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