Mental health and wellbeing care recruitment - UKMon-Fri 8am-7pm

Mental health and wellbeing care, placed with care.

Carers In Mind places permanent mental health support workers, dementia companions, CAMHS support, psychiatric nursing assistants, and wellbeing coaches across the UK. Direct-hire only. One named consultant per client.

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What providers can expect

  • One named consultant from brief through to first shift
  • Shortlist within an agreed window, written timelines
  • DBS, references, and right-to-work checks documented
  • Replacement guarantee on every direct-hire placement
  • Honest pay benchmarks based on the current UK market
10
Care services
18
Day median to shortlist
96%
Offer acceptance rate
1
Consultant per client

Recruitment that respects the work

Mental health and wellbeing care is intimate, unpredictable, and emotionally demanding. The people who do it well are the people who match a service user temperamentally as well as practically. We look for both.

i.

Careful

Every candidate is screened by a real consultant. We listen to how they talk about previous service users, not just what their CV claims about training.

ii.

Compliant

DBS, right-to-work, professional references, and statutory training records are documented in writing before any candidate reaches your desk.

iii.

Steady

One named consultant from brief to first shift. No mystery handoffs, no swapped account managers, no surprises mid-search.

Services we cover

Ten mental health and wellbeing care services across the UK. Direct-hire placements into NHS providers, CCG-aligned services, private providers, and supported-living settings.

Mental Health Support Workers

Adult mental health, secondary care, residential and outreach.

Bipolar Care

Specialist support workers for bipolar service-user pathways.

Depression Support

Workers experienced in low-mood, motivation, and recovery support.

Anxiety Care

Calm, patient support workers for anxiety and panic-disorder care.

Crisis Intervention

Crisis-team support workers and de-escalation specialists.

Memory Care

Memory-care assistants for residential and supported-living.

Dementia Companions

One-to-one dementia companions for home and residential care.

Psychiatric Nursing Assistants

HCAs and PNAs for acute and inpatient psychiatric units.

CAMHS Support

CAMHS support workers and youth mental-health practitioners.

Wellbeing Coaches

Wellbeing coaches and recovery practitioners for IAPT-aligned services.

How a care search runs

Four stages, each with a written deliverable. Compassionate at the front. Compliant at the back.

i.

Listen

A 30-minute conversation with the service lead. We learn the role, the service-user profile, and what would make this hire stick.

ii.

Source

Within five working days you receive a market read with first candidates. We approach each one personally, never a template.

iii.

Verify

DBS, right-to-work, references, and training records are checked and documented before introduction.

iv.

Onboard

We support offer, contract, and the first shift. You get a hire who turns up calm and ready.

Why providers come back to us

Mental health and wellbeing care is not a labour market that rewards speed for speed's sake. The cost of a bad hire is paid by the service user. Carers In Mind built a search practice around that reality.

Every candidate we present is someone we have spoken to. The conversation is not five minutes about availability. It is half an hour about how they talk about their last service user, how they handled a recent crisis, what they learned, what they would do differently. That conversation is the screen.

Direct-hire only

Permanent placements demand a different kind of search than agency-shift cover. Continuity matters. Trust takes time. We focus only on direct-hire because that is the work the sector actually needs from us.

One consultant, start to finish

The consultant who takes your brief is the consultant who calls you with offer outcomes. Same person on every call. Compassion is consistent only when accountability is.

Coverage

Carers In Mind works across England, Scotland, and Wales. Direct-hire searches into NHS providers, CCG-aligned services, private mental-health providers, supported-living, and homecare.

Got a service to resource?

Send a brief. We respond inside one business day with a pay band, a market map, and a written timeline.

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