Clinical Nurse Specialist (RMN)- Core & Eating Disorders - Yorkshire | Care in Mind

Permanent - Part Time 30 hours per week (Mon – Fri plus on call, including weekends). £47,307 - £54,710 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. The salary will be commensurate with the role.

• 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 within the Care in Mind portfolio

• 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

• Minimum 30 days holiday
• An 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, 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.
• We are a Mindful & Disability Confident Employer.
• We support the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter.
• We are a 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.

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 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 sessions 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 towards 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.