# Specialist Care Coordinator > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-care-coordinator/4104adc3-fa2a-4bb7-9c99-cf4200b978b1 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-care-coordinator/4104adc3-fa2a-4bb7-9c99-cf4200b978b1.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust - **Location:** Arndale House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, plus High Cost Area allowance - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Prepared to work on Fridays) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-28T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-14T10:30:48.569Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Dartford/Kent_Medway_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Mental_Health_Nurse/Mental_Health_Nurse-v8196869 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8196869?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are offering an exciting opportunity for a passionate Band 6 Clinician / Care Coordinator to join the Dartford Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service, covering the Medway and Swale area. In our service, caseload sizes are managed carefully to allow for innovative, focused interventions in partnership with service users, families, and support networks. Adopting a strengths-based, recovery-focused approach, we aim to maximize hope, self-determination, and empowerment in line with NICE guidelines. Meeting Access and Waiting Time standards, we ensure individuals receive early, high-quality care through individual work, family interventions, group activities, and community collaboration. As part of a robust multidisciplinary team—working alongside STR workers, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Pharmacists, Medics, Psychologists, and Individual Placement Support (IPS) specialists—you will play a vital role in delivering safe, effective, and client-centred mental health care. 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). Working Schedule: Work Fridays as a core part of your scheduled working week. ### Main duties of the job - Caseload Management: Manage a dedicated caseload of service users experiencing a first episode of psychosis using evidence-based, client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate recovery plans. - Collaborative Care Planning: Work closely with service users, their families, and support networks to identify goals and deliver interventions that maximize engagement, promote choice and independence, and balance risk effectively. - Duty Function & Assessments: Actively participate in the North & West Kent EIP-wide duty function based out of the Gillingham base, facilitating clinical assessments across the Medway and Swale area. - Clinical & Medication Management: Maintain strong knowledge of psychotropic medication, safely administer depot medication as required, and manage Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) effectively. - Statutory & Formal Processes: Attend and actively participate in Care Programme Approach (CPA) reviews and Mental Health Act tribunals. - MDT & Integrated Working: Contribute a high standard of professional expertise to the multidisciplinary team, meeting current policies, standards, and practice guidelines while linking service users to wider community support networks. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience - Experience of working with service users with psychosis when acutely unwell - Experience and skills in clinical assessment - Experience and skills in risk assessment, formulation and management - Experience of working with service users with psychosis and their support network **Desirable** - Experience of the use of evidence-based interventions relating to the care of service users with first episode of psychosis Experience of working with neurodiversity. - Experience of working with service users experiencing psychosis within a community setting. - Experience of working with service users aged 14- 65 years. ### Training, Qualifications and Registration **Essential** - Registered Mental Health Nurse **Desirable** - Evidence of continuing professional development. ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 623.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2394) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 197.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10539534) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.