Care Coordinator Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

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 andindependence.
• 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.

Detailed job description and main 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