Early Intervention Psychosis Care Coordinator

Job overview

Join Our Early Intervention in Psychosis Team – Make a Difference from Day One

Are you a qualified Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, or Mental Health Nurse with a passion for mental health care? We’re looking for compassionate professionals to join our Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Service – PATH (Psychosis: Prevention, Assessment and Treatment in Hertfordshire).

Based in St Albans & Harpenden, covering a specified area in West Hertfordshire, this is a rewarding opportunity to support people experiencing psychosis for the first time, delivering personalised and recovery-focused care.

You’ll work within a supportive mini team model, helping you build strong relationships and develop your leadership and delegation skills.

We welcome applications for full-time, part-time or job-share roles and are committed to flexible working that supports work-life balance.

What we offer:

• A values-driven, innovative EIP service
• Collaborative mini team working
• Flexible working options
• Training in Family Interventions
• Opportunities to grow your leadership and clinical skills

To find out more about our team, visit: 🔗 PATH & ARMS Team

For an informal chat or to arrange a visit, please contact Mary Ingram on 07788 153910 We look forward to hearing from you!

Main duties of the job

You will be:

• an active member of a skilled multi-disciplinary team
• working together with your colleagues to provide our PATH service in our St Albans and Harpenden Team
• cover a designated locality – not the whole county
• travelling less and work out in the community, both in people’s homes and our local hub buildings
• training as a family intervention therapist

You will be passionate in the delivery of recovery based and collaborative approaches to care planning, working flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their individual goals.

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

If you are a qualified social worker, this role attracts a Golden Hello of £3,500, new employees only.

£1,500 on commencement and £2,000 on completion of one years’ employment.

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.

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