Early Intervention Team- Care Coordinator

Pennine Care Nhs Foundation Trust; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust in Rochdale requires a qualified mental health professional to work within an Early Intervention Team. You will assess and support service users experiencing first-episode psychosis, coordinating care across community settings and liaising with other services to ensure holistic, person-centred care.

The role involves working with carers and families in homes, clinics, and other environments, including hostels and supported living.

Qualifications

• Experience working with clients with serious mental illness.
• Experience of teamwork and effective communication at all levels.
• Ability to work independently in a community setting.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients who have suspected psychosis or who are presenting with a psychotic illness, undertake assessments including risk and specialist assessments such as CAARMS.
• Plan, monitor and review care packages.
• Offer a range of psychosocial interventions including family interventions.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Observational skills

Communication

Teamwork

Driving licence

Education

RMN / RNMH / DipSW / SROT

Job description

Job summary

The purpose of this post is to work as part of a multi-disciplinary Early Intervention Team providing care co-ordination and intervention to those identified as having an at risk mental state or being in the early phase of a psychotic illness. To support the assessment of needs and delivery of interventions in line with currently identified best practice within early intervention work.

Main duties of the job

Role Summary: To participate in the provision of a high quality care. This will involve assessing, supporting, monitoring of the service users who are experiencing first episode psychosis and those who are suspected of developing psychosis. It will involve working in a variety of community settings; it will include liaising and co working with other services both statutory and non statutory. It will involve working with carers and families of service users and will involve seeing service users families and carers in their own homes, clinics or in other environments such as hostels, supported living, residential and nursing homes.

Key Responsibilities of the Post

• Work with clients who have suspected psychosis or who are presenting with a psychotic illness, undertake assessments including risk and specialist assessments such the CAARMS.
• Plan Monitor and Review Care Packages
• Offer a range of psychosocial interventions including family interventions

Key Requirements of the Person Specification

• Good interpersonal and observational skills
• Understanding of the problems associated with psychosis.
• Good communicator and ability to develop rapport with people.
• Ability to work within a team, flexibility, patience and reliable
• Have full driving licence and use of a car or access to a car be able to take passengers/clients in car
• Understanding of the impact of mental and physical health problems on a persons overall well being.

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.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• R.M.N. / RNMH/ DipSW /SROT

Experience

Essential

• Experience working with clients with serious mental illness
• Experience of teamwork and effective communication at all levels.
• Ability to work independently in a community setting.

Desirable

• Experience in the use of psychosis-specific semi-structured interviews (e.g. PANSS; CAARMS; PSYRATS).
• Experience working with clients with serious mental illness within an Early Intervention Psychosis Team

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge and skill in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care of clients with serious mental illness under the supervision of a senior clinical practitioner.
• Knowledge of legislation that underpins the care of those with serious mental illness.

Desirable

• Knowledge of NICE guidance applicable to those with psychosis and schizophrenia.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Able to work within workload deadlines and prioritise workload
• To organise, plan and implement own work, under the supervision or a senior clinical practitioner.

Work Related Circumstances

Essential

• Able to Flexibility in working hours required to meet client needwork within workload deadlines and prioritise workload
• Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
• Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).