Care Coordinator - Ashton-Under-Lyne, United Kingdom - Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the North Community Mental Health Team for a Community Psychiatric Nurse / Social Worker or OT to join us in working to provide integrated health and social care to people of working age who have moderate to severe mental health problems across a wide range of presenting conditions.
The post will be based with the North Community Mental Health Team.There is a strong commitment to promoting your professional development.
You will be supported by clinical and management supervision and will be given the opportunity to develop and enhance clinical skills, interventions and case management through a personal development and training plan.
Key Responsibilities of the Post:
As a Care Co-ordinator, you will be responsible for the co-ordination, commissioning and personal delivery of individual packages of care for a caseload of service users within our secondary service
Key Requirements of the Person Specification:
RMN:
Registered Mental Health Nurse
Social Worker
Occupational therapist with care coordination experience
Experience in a relevant area of mental health practice.
Current driving license or supported driver with use of vehicle.
To act as Care Co-ordinator, carry a caseload and work with evidence based interventions
- Assess needs
- Formulate care plans
- Implementation of care plans
- Assessment and monitoring of risk
- Monitor, review and evaluate care
- Liaise with all agencies, and members of the multidisciplinary team
- Carry out clinic duties such as the Clozaril /administration of depot injections either in the clients home or in the clinics if Nurse qualified.
- Supervise Community Support Workers / Band 5s and peers as appropriate
- To maintain accurate, up to date electronic records
- To offer initial mental health and social care assessments
- To participate in the CMHT's duty system on a rota basis. Be able to offer a rapid response to service users' immediate needs, including those arising from crisis.
- To work in a therapeutically informed way within the multidisciplinary team to address the needs of service users with complex emotional disorders.
- To maintain a persistent approach to engagement where there are complex mental health difficulties.
- To promote the physical health and wellbeing
- To train as a Safeguarding adult's manager if not already a SAM
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services.
We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Responsibilities:
- To act as Care Coordinator
- To carry a caseload and work with evidence based interventions to include:
- Assessment of need of the service user and carer
- Formulation of care plan
- Implementation of a plan of care for the service user in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, referring agent, family/carer and service user, where appropriate.
- Assessment and monitoring of risk
- To monitor, review and evaluate care in accordance with C.P.A
- To liaise with all agencies, and members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the needs of the service user are met.
- Establish and maintain communication with individuals and groups on the caseload about difficult or complex matters, in such a way as to overcome any problems in communication.
- To carry out clinic duties such as the Clozaril /administration of depot injections either in the clients home or in the clinics if Nurse qualified. To manage medication and its administration within Trust Policy
- To supervise Community Support Workers / Band 5s and peers as appropriate to implement elements of the care plan.
- To maintain accurate, up to date electronic records
- To offer initial mental health and social care assessments
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