Care Co-ordinator, Brent Early intervention service

An exciting opportunity has opened up within our Brent Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Service, for a newly qualified RMN, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with experience working in mental health. CNWL is fully committed to developing our workforce and offering opportunities to aspiring candidates, and this post is no different.

Within this role you will be offered

• Monthly supervisionsessions focussed on your development into this role
• Our highly successful6-months Family Intervention trainingwhich upon completion will allow you to co-facilitate Family Therapy sessions within the team
• Opportunities to shadow our wide-ranging, specialised services within the Trust such as perinatal services, prison services, HTT, CMHT and many more
• Bespoke in-house training and workshops.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will carry a caseload of service users 14 years and over who are experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis.

Responsible for undertaking initial and comprehensive assessments of health and social care needs alone or with colleagues and feedback to Multi-Disciplinary Team

Care co-ordination responsibility for the overall care of an identified group of service users, being part of a service that is committed to recovery and social inclusion.

Carry out MDT activities including being on duty as appropriate and within sphere of your profession.

Our EIP Practitioners are specially trained and committed to using these skills in order to maximise patient autonomy and to deliver NICE concordant care for First Episode Psychosis.

If you are an enthusiastic practitioner who is keen to try and upskill themselves andadvance into becoming an established community practitionerthen we want to hear from you.

About us

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. We can offer

• Flexible workingwith the opportunity to workcondensed hoursandworking from home
• Working within adynamic teamwith visibility of the Senior Management Team (Service Manager & Borough Director)
• Award-winning Staff Networksthat have thousands of members and exciting events.
• Career mappingand development programmes.
• Support and guidancewith your Nurse revalidation.
• Opportunity toshadow senior leaders
• Hidden Gem & annualaward ceremonies.

The Team serves the population of Brent, a diverse and vibrant borough. It is an established team with a friendly, supportive culture. There is a visible , supportive management team and a strong emphasis on training and professional development opportunities.

Brent is a place of contrast, a destination for thousands of British and international visitors every year. Home of the iconic Wembley Stadium, the world famous Wembley Arena, the new London Designer Outlet & the spectacular Swaminarayan Hindu Temple, it provides a stage for cultural, sporting & religious events of national and international importance.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with other members of the multi-disciplinary team in the delivery of MH care pathway.
• Ensure, and clarify where necessary, the patient pathways through mental health services.
• Undertake initial assessments and reviews including the formulation of care plans to meet the identified needs of the patient.
• Undertake Risk Assessments and formulate risk management plans as per Trust policies.
• Regular attendance and participation at the clinical meetings that facilitate discussion of patient/client needs and ensure a shared approach to care, treatment and risk management where necessary.
• Plan and implement care as appropriate to the needs of the patient that is underpinned by best practice guidance and person centred principles.
• Review and evaluation of care plans and risk management plans on an ongoing basis
• Advice regarding medication management including promoting concordance and monitoring and advising regards effect and side effects in accordance with profession
• Facilitate undertaking of physical and mental health reviews
• Provide information, advice and assessment to carers, as required.
• To work with primary care to ensure that referrals to secondary services are timely and appropriate and that more complex cases are referred on.
• Work as part of the mental health practitioner team at base and in service users homes and the community as appropriate.
• To develop and maintain access to community & voluntary agencies/services who can offer patients alternative avenues for support and therapeutic help
• Ensure safe discharge process back to primary care when secondary services no longer required
• Facilitating and attending joint training events within the Organisation/ Borough as appropriate and agreed with service management team
• To promote appropriate service users involvement in all aspects of the delivery of the service.
• To participate in clinical and business meetings.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse RMN/Occupational therapist/Social work
• Mentorship qualification
• Registration with relevant professional body

Experience

Essential

• Significant Experience of working in a clinical area providing mental and physical health care and assessment.
• Demonstrable experience of working with people who experience serious on-going mental health problems

Desirable

• Experience of working with people in the community.
• Health promotion experience.

Knowledge

Essential

• Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
• Empowering and working in partnership
• Safeguarding and advocacy
• Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with
• Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the people they are working
• Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
• Infection control and aseptic Non-Touch Technique
• Manual Handling patients
• Obtaining Consent
• Medicines management and administration (nurses).

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
• Manage others and contribute to the management of the team
• Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind and hard working
• Help others in the team achieve their objectives and deliver safe, effective care
• Mentor, teach and support others in the team
• Supervise others in the team
• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
• IT Skills: Able to maintain electronic patient records Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing Use of electronic communication platforms TEAMS / ZOOM

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

27 - 27 Fairlight Avenue

Harlesden

NW10 8AL

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333-J-BR-0653-B