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

Job overview

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 welcome applications from candidates interested in working full time, part time or job sharing.  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 FEP 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 leading a mini team. 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 Mary Ingram on 07788 153910 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 Watford.
• 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

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.

Our ‘Caseload Mini Team’ workforce model is unique and highly supportive of team working.   You will work as the Leader of the Mini Team, working closely with a Band 4 & 5 colleague to manage the caseload together.

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 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