Care Coordinator (Social Worker/OT/Nurse) EIP/FEP Team - PATH Service

Job overview

Maternity leave cover

We are recruiting qualified Social Workers, Mental Health Nurses and Occupational Therapists with extensive experience in Mental Health

Are you an experienced Social Worker, OT or Mental Health Nurse? Join our team.  People using our service are experiencing psychosis for the first time. We are committed to delivering personalised and meaningful care that makes a positive difference and helps people to achieve outcomes to make their lives better.

We support flexible working for our staff to support you to maintain a healthy work life balance.

Our roles are focused on delivering care along the First Episode in Psychosis pathway for people and their families.  You will have access to comprehensive training.

The PATH service will support you to become an expert clinician in the assessment and treatment of psychosis & we can offer development opportunities into more senior roles.

In this role, you will also have great opportunity to develop your management, leadership and delegation skills by working as part of an MDT in a hub and spoke operational model. You will have the opportunity to access HPFT leadership training and this can prepare you for other more senior leadership roles in the future, if this is your chosen career pathway.

You can find out more about our team here: https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/about-us/our-teams/path-and-arms/

Please contact Eleanor Atkins [email protected] for an informal chat or to arrange a visit.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 6 Clinician in the team, you will:

• have an excellent training and development pathway
• train as a family intervention therapist
• be an active member of a skilled multi-disciplinary team
• work together with your colleagues to provide our PATH service to people in Borehamwood.
• cover this designated locality – not the whole county
• travel less and work out in the community, both in people’s homes and our local hub buildings

The hub and spoke model aligns closely with the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service by protecting the core care coordination function while strengthening delivery of NICE‑concordant interventions. The hub provides consistent clinical leadership, governance, and oversight of risk, CPA, and pathway standards, ensuring timely allocation and continuity of care. Spokes enable specialist, role‑focused interventions such as physical health, carer support, psychology, employment, and social care to be delivered more effectively. This structure reduces caseload pressure on care coordinators, improves access to evidence‑based treatments, supports recovery‑focused care, and helps EIP services meet national quality, access, and accreditation standards sustainably.

To succeed in this job, you will be committed to the delivery of recovery based and collaborative approaches to care planning, working flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their goals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary Community Team, will be responsible for the clinical and operational day to day service delivery, providing a high quality health & social care service to adults of all ages having First Episode Psychosis (FEP). The core functions are to provide assessment, care planning and care co- ordination, including care programme approach, within a framework of recovery which embraces each individual’s right to choice and control.

All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

You may be responsible for supervision, development and teaching of junior staff and/or students as delegated by the team manager.

Come and find out more about what we do and consider joining our team.  We’d love you to come and work with us!

Here’s what our staff say about working in the team:

"I love my job, I see service users over their journey from when they first become unwell to being able to re-start living a rewarding life"

"It's a specialist team, lots of opportunities for career development, it's a very supportive team and we work together as a mini team to look after a case load."

Here’s what we’ll offer you in terms of learning and development:

• You’ll be offered a structured 12 week induction programme, giving you access to FEP specific learning and development opportunities to give you the confidence and skills to start delivering the FEP pathway to our service users
• Your development is our focus and we will offer a range of ways for you to further your career. You’ll have access to personal coaching, to help you achieve your goals, coupled with 100 day conversations and a high quality supervision and appraisal programme.
• You’ll want to be a leader and will be encouraged to develop your leadership skills through our offer of bespoke leadership training, high quality profession specific support and opportunities to learn the most effective supervision and personal coaching approaches.
• You’ll be an important part of an innovative, creative and developing service. We are committed to a future where we use continuous quality improvement to harness your ideas for service development and make them a reality
• You’ll work with a team who have highly specialist knowledge, experience and skills around FEP, where you will have access to a comprehensive internal training package to develop these skills in your first year too
• Delivering the FEP Pathway is a chance to change service users lives, teaching them the skills to self-manage their illness and encouraging self-reliance and independence, as well as helping them rebuild their lives
• You’ll be working with people who come with a variety of needs, at various stages of their illness and recovery
• HPFT offers a wide variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts, a lease car scheme AND Excellent pension provision with up to 42 days leave per year