Care Coordinator Band 6

Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a professional to join our close-knit team, here in the Harrow and Hillingdon Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service. You will work with children and adults between the ages of 14 to 35 who present to mental health services with a presentation of First Episode of Psychosis (FEP). You will be providing tailored and bespoke packages of care that promote mental well-being, a recovery-focused approach and a range of interventions in order to facilitate this.
At CNWL we are fully committed and proud to develop our own workforce through training and development opportunities and this post is no different.
If you are an enthusiastic RMN, Social Worker or OT who is keen to try and upskill themselves and advance into becoming a more established community practitioner, then we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
The role requires you to care coordinate a varied caseload to patients between the ages of 14-35. You will require excellent engagement skills, demonstrating an anti-oppressive and enabling approach to co-production with your patients. You should be skilled in assessing mental health, creating risk assessments, safety plans and crisis and contingency plans.
Our EIP Practitioners are specially trained and committed to using these skills to offer nursing which is centred around working with an individual’s strengths in order to maximise autonomy and to deliver NICE concordant care for First Episode Psychosis.

Working for our organisation
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of our benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance, in addition to assurances around training and development. We can offer:

• Flexible working with the opportunity for working from home
• Our highly successful 6-month Family Intervention training which upon completion will allow you to co-facilitate Family Therapy sessions within the team
• Opportunities to train in delivering CBTp (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis)
• Monthly Reflective Practice sessions allowing you the opportunity to share your learning and reflect on your experiences with your colleagues
• Monthly supervision sessions focused on your development into this role
• Opportunities to shadow our wide-ranging, specialised services with the Trust such as perinatal services, prison services, HTT, CMHT and many more
• Career mapping and development programmes

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
See attached JD and PS
The Harrow and Hillingdon EIP service prides itself on working as a team, ensuring that the bio-psycho-social model is utilised to the fullest with input and support from our strong multi-disciplinary team; Consultants, Speciality Doctor, Psychologists, Employment Specialist, Admins, Nurses, Social workers, Occupational therapist, Activity Coordinators and Peer-Support Worker.
If you want to make a difference to those experiencing their first episode in psychosis and be a part of their recovery journey then we want to hear from you.

Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Current Professional Registration as a Registered Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist or Social Worker.
• Evidence of post-registration training and CPD.
  Desirable criteria
• CBTp, Family intervention, AMHP
• Other relevant training, e.g., substance misuse, work with adolescents.

Experience
Essential criteria

• Relevant post-qualified experience
• Experience working with Psychosis
• Care Coordinator experience
  Desirable criteria
• Experience with working with young adolescents between the ages of 14-18yrs
• Working with families
• Supervision of students and junior staff.

Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria

• IT Skills
• Skills in risk assessment and management
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including report writing and presentation
  Desirable criteria
• Skills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change.
• Basic counselling and group work skills.
• Knowledge of Dual diagnosis/substance misuse.