Community Mental Health Nurse/care Coordinator - Orpington, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Orpington, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We have an exciting opportunity for a care coordinator to join the Bromley Early Intervention team.

We are looking to recruit a Care Coordinator to work with people experiencing first episode psychosis in our Early Intervention Service.

The Early Intervention in Psychosis Service across the Trust is dynamic, well trained and enthusiastic about implementing evidence based approaches to supporting clients on their recovery journey.

The successful post holder will be motivated, flexible and creative in their approach to engaging clients and will have experience of delivering evidence based psychosocial interventions to people experiencing psychosis.

The post holder will be closely supported in the team and will have the opportunity to participate in training and development as part of the team's continuing professional development programme.

Experience and knowledge of working with Dual Diagnosis would also be desired.

EIP Care coordinators are required to coordinate the full range of psychological, pharmacological, social and occupational interventions recommended in NICE guidelines.

Care should be coordinated across all relevant agencies encompassing the whole psychosis care pathway. A person-centred, integrated approach to providing services is fundamental to delivering high-quality care to people with psychosis.

Key Task and Responsibilities
Care Coordinators working with people with psychosis should ensure they are competent in:

Engagement
Working with a biopsychosocial formulation
Assessment skills
Using explanatory models of illness
Explaining the causes of psychosis
Explaining treatment options
Negotiating skills
Skills for working with families of people with psychosis
Conflict management and conflict resolution.

EIP Care Coordinators should be skilled in working with recovery-based approaches to care planning.

They should be able to work flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their individual goals, supporting them across a range of health and social care needs, including housing, benefits and debt advice.

Care Coordinators working with people with psychosis from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds should ensure they are competent in addressing cultural and ethnic differences in beliefs regarding biological, social and family influences on the causes of unusual mental states, treatment expectations and adherence.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings.

Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent.

We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.

We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

This is strengthened by our new values:
We're Kind

We're Fair

We Listen

We Care

Management responsibilities

Managing Caseload

Significant knowledge, awareness and understanding of Mental Health
Law, including legislation of particular relevance to the community
sector including the Community Care Act treatment legislation,
the Care Programme Approach (2008), the Mental Capacity Act (2005)
and Community Treatment Orders (CTO).

To be personally responsible and professionally accountable for a
caseload as part of the community team and lead and manage the
work of others as required.

Co-ordinating care, communicating with other professionals involved in
the care and ensuring regular CPA reviews are held as required. This
will include communication with other teams for example in-patient
services through attendance at ward meetings and with interface
services e.g. Addictions service and CAMHS services where
appropriate.

Independently carrying out assessment, care planning and care
coordination with excellent interpersonal skills, ability to listen to others'
views, respect and value individuals from a diverse range of
backgrounds.

Leading meetings with community team members o