Specialist Mental Health Nurse

About The Role

As a member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will provide specialist mental health and wellbeing support, including assessment, therapy, and care coordination. Working closely with children and young people, you will help ensure they receive consistent, person-centred care. You will also support staff across our services in embedding and maintaining best practices in mental health provision.

This is a post to cover OFG Options Holistic services in Scotland; this encompasses Maben School and residential home & Closeburn School and residential home.

Who we are looking for.

We’re seeking someone with strong clinical experience in child and adolescent mental health, who is passionate about working within education and care settings. You should have excellent communication skills, the ability to work collaboratively, and a commitment to evidence-based practice.

This is a unique opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of young people by working collaboratively with care and education teams to promote psychological wellbeing and resilience.

If you’re ready to make a lasting impact on the lives of young people and want to be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver specialist mental health and wellbeing services in designated schools and children’s homes.
• Collaborate with education and care staff as part of a multi-disciplinary team, using an ‘assess, plan, do, review’ model to support young people.
• Provide specialist training, reflective practice, consultation, observation, and modelling to staff, supporting intervention delivery and strategies.
• Promote a biopsychosocial approach through advice, consultation, supervision, and sharing relevant knowledge, theory, and research.
• Represent the clinical service and/or clients at multidisciplinary meetings to ensure coordinated, integrated care.
• Offer specialist assessment, formulation, intervention, management, and evaluation using evidence-based approaches.
• Support referral assessments as part of the OFG process.
• Make informed decisions on interventions, considering OFG-approved methods, evidence-based practice, and client history.
• Manage a personal caseload, providing assessment, intervention, and evaluation in collaboration with Lead Clinician and key adults.
• Deliver direct individual and group interventions where appropriate.
• Use OFG-approved outcome measures to monitor progress and adjust interventions based on findings.
• Advocate for young people, ensuring their voices are heard and understood.
• Liaise with external professionals and agencies involved in shared cases.
• Monitor and assess risk within own caseload and advise others on risk management.
• Communicate sensitively and effectively with young people, families, and professionals, especially in emotionally challenging situations.
• Maintain high standards of clinical record-keeping and reporting in line with professional and OFG standards.
• Model best practice and professional conduct, aligning with CQC outcomes (where relevant), clinical governance, and regulatory body standards.

Essential Criteria:

• Degree in Mental Health Nursing, approved by NMC, additional post graduate qualifications in CBT or DBT or other psychological approaches
• Relevant previous experience, working in related settings and/or with related client group.
• Experience of working with specific client group (e.g. social, emotional and mental health and neurodiversity) and setting type (e.g. schools and/or residential care).
• Experience of effective multi-disciplinary working (working with both clinical and non-clinical, internal and external agencies).
• Experience of effectively communicating with/working with families/relatives and carers 
• Experience of effectively working at different systems within an organisation e.g. service development, group and individual levels.
• Experience of working via a model of: ‘assess, plan, do and review’.
• Experience of effectively using consultation as method of service delivery.
• Experience of providing supervision to others.
• Full valid UK driving licence and access to own vehicle

Location: Closeburn House – Dumfriesshire, Scotland DG3 5HP

Holistic Childcare and Education, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Education – Options Autism

About the Group

Outcomes First Group is the largest independent provider of special needs education. We are a vital part of local communities in England, Scotland and Wales with a renowned reputation for quality and positive outcomes for the people we educate for.

We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the fifth year running.

Our divisional brands include Acorn Education and Options Autism.

For more information on the group please visit: https://www.outcomesfirstgroup.co.uk/

For further information on this role please refer the Job Description and Person Specification attached. To discuss this role in more detail, please contact: recruitment@ofgl.co.uk

Why work for us?

Alongside working with a network of clinical colleagues with regular forums for peer reflection and practice development, Outcomes First Group offer an array of flexible benefit options.

Benefits

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Life Assurance Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
• Family Growth Support – inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the people in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

At Outcomes First Group we are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils and young people. All successful applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Outcomes First Group is committed to carrying out a fair, thorough and efficient recruitment process in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Whilst we aim to keep applicants informed throughout, Outcomes First Group does not accept liability for any loss of earnings or other associated costs incurred by applicants as a result of delays or changes in the compliance process. All stages of the compliance process are subject to necessary safeguarding checks and compliance with statutory requirements, which may affect timescales.

Job ID: 291165

For details on how to apply, please click here.