Band 6 Early intervention practitioner (CPN, Social Worker or OT)

Job overview

The role of the Early Intervention Practitioner is to work in partnership with At Risk mental state (ARMS) and First Episode of Psychosis (FEP) service users wrapping care and treatment around hope and aspirations informing their care and recovery plans.

They will demonstrate an understanding of clinical interventions evidenced based for this particular care group – including education and support, carer and family psycho-education and risk minimisation planning. The post holder will work at all times flexibly and to promote the safety and the wellbeing of service users and their families/carers.

The post holder will assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist advice and carry out specialist nursing or occupational therapy health procedures.  They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students.

Main duties of the job

To be a core member of the team, using specialist health and recovery focused assessments.

To provide a highly specialized range of clinical interventions relevant to the care group and have knowledge of evidence based models of practice.

Care will be delivered under the Care Programmed Approach and with support from colleagues.  Taking on the role of care coordinator and working within the CPA policy delivering standards set out in the CPA policy.

To manage a caseload of clients with complex health needs.

To develop care plans that meet the needs of the individual and their family/carers as appropriate and that are focused on strengths and are outcome based. To plan and implement client centered individual, family and group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.

To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.

To administer or monitor medication prescribed to individual service users, providing information and advice.

Maintain the safe custody and control of medication (Nurses Only).

To administer medication within NMC guidelines and the Trusts Medicines Code (Nurses Only).

Ensure safe disposal of clinical waste. (Nurses Only).

Implement of all policies and procedures as appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.