Community Learning Disability Care Coordinator

NHS; East Hampshire; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services is seeking a Community Learning Disability Care Coordinator to enhance the lives of adults with severe mental illness and learning disabilities. This role involves collaborating across disciplines to provide comprehensive care, ensuring safe discharge planning, and engaging with individuals often considered difficult to reach. You will lead care coordination efforts, develop tailored care plans, and foster meaningful relationships with service users and their families. Join a dedicated team committed to delivering high-quality mental health services and making a positive impact in the community.

Benefits

Generous Annual Leave

Flexible Working Opportunities

Access to Continued Professional Development

Health and Wellbeing Activities

Staff Discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in community mental health and learning disability settings.
• Ability to communicate and build relationships with service users and professionals.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care for service users with learning disabilities and complex mental health issues.
• Develop and implement care plans in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams.

Skills

Mental Health Knowledge

Learning Disability Expertise

Care Coordination

Communication Skills

Time Management

Medication Management

Supervisory Skills

Education

RMN/RNLD Qualification

Post-registration Study to Graduate Level

Tools

Care Programme Approach

Mental Health Act Knowledge

Mental Capacity Act Knowledge

Job description

Community Learning Disability Care Coordinator

The Community Learning Disability Care Coordinator will provide a comprehensive mental health service to adults of working age who experience severe mental illness and diagnosed learning disability within the community. The practitioner will work across both mental health and learning disability teams and in patients at Tameside hospital. The role will include admission prevention and safe discharge planning within a multi-disciplinary approach with other partners.

Main duties of the job

1. Work collaboratively across a range of disciplines to continuously promote a 'needs based' approach to all service users.
2. Promote an integrated approach to service delivery.
3. Develop clear relapse recognition/prevention plans and share with MDT, service users, and carers where appropriate.
4. Develop meaningful engagement with individuals who are often referred to as 'difficult to engage' and their families.

About us

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities, and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance.
• Access to Continued Professional Development.
• Involvement in improvement and research activities.
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service.
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure, and travel.

Job responsibilities

1. To act as Care Co-ordinator to service users with learning disability and complex severe and enduring mental illness.
2. To carry a caseload and work with evidence-based interventions to include:
1. Assessment of need of the service user and carer.
2. Formulation of care plan.
3. Implementation of a plan of care for the service user in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, referring agent, family/carer, and service user, where appropriate.
4. Assessment and monitoring of risk.
3. To monitor, review, and evaluate treatment and care in accordance with C.P.A. and to make timely referrals to recovery services once the treatment and stabilisation of mental health and social circumstances has been effected.
4. To support the commissioning of an appropriate package of care in the community by liaising with relevant partners.
5. To liaise with all agencies, and members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the needs of the service user are met.
6. Establish and maintain communication with individuals and groups on the caseload about difficult or complex matters, in such a way as to overcome any problems in communication.
7. To carry out clinic duties such as the Clozaril/administration of depot injections either in the clients' home or in the clinics. To manage medication and its administration within Trust Policy.
8. To supervise Community Support Workers/Band 5s as appropriate to implement elements of the care plan.
9. To maintain accurate, up-to-date records of all service users referred and receiving assessment, care treatment, and support.
10. To offer an initial holistic assessment to those newly referred to the service, and signpost as appropriate.
11. Be able to offer a rapid response to service users' immediate needs, including those arising from crises.
12. To work in a therapeutically informed way within the multi-disciplinary team to address the needs of service users with complex emotional needs.
13. To maintain a persistent approach to engagement where there are complex mental health and learning disabilities.
14. To have the capacity to prioritise and work flexibly with MDT in order to respond to rapidly changing clinical needs.
15. To be actively involved in safeguarding adult procedures.
16. To work collaboratively with primary and secondary care services to ensure that the physical health needs of service users are met.
17. To promote the physical health and wellbeing of service users.

Person Specification

• RMN/RNLD.
• Experience of working within community mental health/learning disability setting as a care coordinator.
• Extensive knowledge of mental health and learning disability.
• Care programme approach.
• Knowledge of mental health act and mental capacity act.
• Ability to supervise and support Band 5s and students.
• Ability to communicate informally and develop supportive relationships with service users, carers, and other professionals.
• Ability to prepare, record, and complete relevant documentation for the role.
• Medication management and administration.
• Ability to demonstrate effective time management and self-organisation.
• Use of a car.
• Evidence of post-registration study to graduate level.
• Experience of supervision.
• Experience of safeguarding.
• Knowledge of the care act.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.