Job summary
Clinical Nurse Specialist (RMN)
Permanent- hours per week (Mon - Fri plus on call)
Band 6 or above experience
Hybrid working- Home with travel to Yorkshire & Lancashire services.
£ - £ Dependent on Experience
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
About us
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.
Company Benefits
1. Enhanced company pension
2. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
3. 35 days holiday holidays, increasing with service
4. Enhanced Company sick pay
5. Life assurance Benefit
6. Employee of the year awards
7. Employee Assistance programme/counselling service
8. Healthcare Cashplan with costs provided towards dental and optical care and a range of other healthcare treatments and benefits including discounted gym memberships
9. Free on-site parking
10. Paid DBS check
11. Online shopping discounts
12. Long service awards
13. We are a Mindful and Disability Confident Employer
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for assessing, developing, outlining and implementing specialist interventions to young people, both within residential provision and independence packages of care within the community. The young people within the service will have often transitioned from long term hospital admissions or secure care provisions, as well as having been placed as an alternative to a hospital.
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 teams 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
14. A. Provide a specialist assessment and treatment service based upon comprehensive assessment of the young peoples 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 persons care.
B. Supporting colleagues and residential staff to reflect on their practice and empathy levels, with reference to Young Person formulation and personal/professional boundaries.
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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
15. Is a Registered Nurse (RMN)
Desirable
16. Accredited safeguarding qualification
Experience
Essential
17. Legislative knowledge and experience
18. Evidence of continued professional development
19. Experience of working with young people with complex mental health difficulties and neurodiversity.
20. Band 6 or above experience
Desirable
21. Case management experience within a health and social care setting
22. Experience of working in a community setting
23. Experience of working within a secure setting
Skills
Essential
24. IT literate with experience of working with Microsoft office applications
25. A willingness and ability to work flexibly
26. Ability to work confidently remotely and utilise platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom.
27. Have access to a vehicle for work purposes with the ability to travel to the sites within the Care in Mind portfolio
Other
Essential
28. We will expect your values and behaviours to mirror those of Care in Mind, as illustrated on page 2 of this job description.