Care Coordinator - Early Intervention | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and social care organization in Cambridge is looking for a dynamic Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist as a Band 6 Care Coordinator. The role involves assessing and managing complex health presentations, developing collaborative care plans, and providing support to service users while ensuring evidence-based clinical practice. Candidates should have a strong background in mental health and a desire for innovation. The position allows for agile working and offers mentorship opportunities.

Qualifications

• Autonomous practitioner responsible for a defined caseload.
• Experience in family intervention models is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Undertake assessments of individuals and families in the designated care group.
• Develop care plans alongside service users.
• Assess and manage ongoing risks collaboratively with service users and carers.
• Ensure clinical practice aligns with NICE guidelines and Trust policies.
• Provide supervision and mentorship to junior staff.

Skills

Knowledge of psychosis

Strong background in mental health

Team player

Ability to work under pressure

Desire for innovation

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse / Social Worker / Occupational Therapist

Job description

Overview

Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with a good knowledge of psychosis and a passion for the Early intervention ethos? CAMEO, the award winning service, operates across the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust via two established bases in their busy cities. This post will be located in Cambridge where we are seeking to recruit highly trained and hard working Band 6 Care Coordinators: Mental health Nurses, Social Workers or Occupational Therapists. The practitioner will provide specialist advice, assess, plan and implement care to a designated caseload while promoting the EI ethos and ensuring the safety and well-being of service users and their families/carers through family intervention models.

The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner responsible for a defined caseload. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mental health, be a team player with a great work ethic; a sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under pressure and a desire for innovation. We are able to support agile working for staff, using all appropriate IT equipment and support.

Responsibilities

• Undertake assessments of individuals and their families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk.
• Work alongside the service user to develop their care plan along the recovery principles and offer specialist assessment and advice where required.
• Assess, manage and regularly review ongoing risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the service user and carers.
• Ensure that clinical practice is evidence based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
• Provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate (mentorship and preceptorship qualifications).
• To act within the relevant Code of Conduct dependent on your Registration Body.

About the Trust

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & well-being of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care settings but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications. Sponsorship information is included in the attached job description. This advert closes on Monday 29 Sep 2025.