Clinical Nurse Specialist (RMN) - Lancashire | Care in Mind

Posting date:	27 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,307 - £52,065 Per annum - Dependant on experience
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	27 July 2025
Location:	Stockport, SK3 0UX
Company:	Care In Mind
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7310265/1152

Summary

Clinical Nurse Specialist (RMN)

Permanent- 37.5 hours per week (Mon - Fri plus on call)

Band 7

Hybrid Working - Based at Head Office in Stockport, inclusive of Home working and with travel to Lancashire services.

£47,307 - £52,065 Dependent on Experience





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

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
• Enhanced company pension
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• 35 days holiday inc.bank holidays , increasing with service
• Enhanced Company sick pay
• Life assurance Benefit
• Employee of the year awards
• Employee Assistance programme/counselling service
• Healthcare Cashplan with costs provided towards dental and optical care and a range of other healthcare treatments and benefits including discounted gym memberships
• Free on-site parking
• Paid DBS check
• Online shopping discounts
• Long service awards
• We are a Mindful and Disability Confident Employer

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 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

1. A. 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.

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 learninglessons 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






This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Jul 2025

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