Care Coordinator Registered Mental Health Nurse

Kent And Medway Mental Health Nhs Trust; Folkestone; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent And Medway Mental Health Nhs Trust is recruiting a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse to work with the East Kent Early Intervention in Psychosis service, covering the South Kent Coast Locality.

The role focuses on caseload management for first-episode psychosis, MDT collaboration, and delivering NICE-aligned interventions to maximise engagement and recovery outcomes for service users.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Nurse/Diploma in Nursing (Mental Health).
• Practice Assessor/Educator Qualification desired.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience of psychosis care, assessment and planning is essential.

Responsibilities

• Care coordinators manage caseloads and collaborate with service users, families, and networks to support recovery and engagement.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to deliver NICE-concordant interventions and ensure safety and quality of care.
• Provide physical health monitoring and contribute to risk assessment and care planning.

Skills

Nurse

Mental health care

Risk assessment

Education

RMN qualification

Job description

Job summary

We're offering an exciting opportunity to work with the East Kent Early Intervention in Psychosis Mental Health service (EIP) as a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse covering the South Kent Coast Locality.

The role includes:

• To manage a caseload of service users experiencing a first episode of psychosis using evidence-based / client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.


• To work collaboratively with service users, staff, and their support network to identify goals to determine and deliver appropriate interventions/recovery plan which maximises engagement and performance whilst balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.


• To provide a professional contribution to a multi-disciplinary team to support the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality mental health services which meet existing new policies, practice and standards.


• To monitor, evaluate and modify therapeutic interventions in order to measure progress and increase efficacy for the best possible service user outcomes and experience.

Main duties of the job

• Care Coordinators have caseloads sizes that allow for innovative and focused interventions in partnership with service users, families and support networks, promoting recovery, social inclusion and well-being in line with NICE guidelines.


• The Access and Waiting Time standards ensure that individuals are offered NICE concordant Interventions early in their treatment. Our service aims to work alongside individuals and their families by adopting strength and recovery-based approaches which maximise hope, self-determination, and empowerment. The service offers individual and family work, as well as various group work activities which includes linking in with organisations and resources with an increasing emphasis on collaborative working.


• To work collaboratively with service users and their support network to identify goals to determine and deliver an appropriate intervention/recovery plan which maximises engagement and performance while balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.


• To actively participate in a East Kent EIP wide duty function and assessment on a rota system. The successful candidate will be required to undertake the duty function at the EIP base in Canterbury and be required to facilitate assessments throughout East Kent.

About us

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway.

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.

Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.

Job responsibilities

• Your role within the team will be varied allowing plenty of opportunity to both demonstrate and develop your skills as well as offering a dynamic working life. As a Care co-ordinator, you will have a registered profession and have a caseload of clients which would involve monitoring and assessment of risk and co-ordinating treatment plans.


• Work with other professions within the service including: STR workers, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Pharmacist, Medics, Psychology and Individual Placement Support to ensure the service user is offered a range of support which meets the individuals and families needs.


• Offer physical health monitoring to clients under the service,

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010). Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification.

Person Specification

Training, Qualifications and Registration

Essential

• Registered Mental Nurse/Diploma in Nursing (Mental Health),


• Hold appropriate Practice Assessor/Educator Qualification

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional development


• Training or experince in facilitating/co facilitating in Family intervention work

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience


• Experience of working with service users with psychosis when acutely unwell.


• Experience and skills in clinical assessment.


• Experience and skills in risk assessment, formulation and management.


• Experience of working with service users with psychosis and their support network

Desirable

• Experience of the use of evidence-based interventions relating to the care of service users with first episode of psychosis.


• Experience of working with service users experiencing psychosis within a community setting.


• Experience of working with service users aged 14- 65 years.


• Experience of working with neurodiversity.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Excellent understanding of psychosis, interventions and evidence-based practices.


• EIP access and waiting time standards.


• NICE guidelines for psychosis and schizophrenia.


• Safeguarding vulnerable adults and children and young people.

Desirable

• The Care Programme Approach.


• Working knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983

Other

Essential

• To work Monday's as part of the working week.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).