Sanctuary Personnel is currently seeking an experienced Band 6 Care Coordinator to take on a new locum opportunity based in London, within the Early Intervention Service.
Location: London. You may be required from time to time to work outside your normal place of work.
Contract Type: Locum, 3-month contract
Pay Rate: £30 per hour (assignment rate)
Duties:
- Work within a multi disciplinary team comprising of Doctors, Psychologist, Social Workers, CPNs, OT, Support and Recovery Workers, Employment Specialists, a Team Manager and team administration staff
- Manage a caseload of young clients between 17 and 35 who have experienced a first episode of any psychotic illness, using evidence based /client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions
- Be accountable for the co-ordination of care plans for people who are in the early stages of psychotic illness between the ages of 17-35
- Work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Assess health and social care needs and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty
- Undertake risk assessments according to policy
- Ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies, within the CPA structure
- Engage service users and carers assertively and offer care/interventions within the least restrictive setting in normal community environments
- Provide a service sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability
- Offer a range of evidence based psycho-social interventions and proactive risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis and enable, as far as possible, full and sustained recovery
- Ensure Child Protection Guidelines and procedures are fully understood by self and others
- Ensure the safety needs of children are met at all times and take appropriate action when a child is felt to be at risk or in need
- Monitor treatment, support concordance and ensure prompt action is taken to alleviate unwanted effects
- Provide access to and ongoing psycho-education regarding first episode psychosis to service users and families
- Ensure basic needs are addressed i.e. housing, income, support in accessing education or training etc
- Provide interventions, and work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co-morbid problems with substance use/misuse
- Engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention and crisis planning and provide and coordinate interventions that maximise the service users' ability to resolve crises, remain at home and avoid the need for hospitalisation
Requirements of the Care Coordinator:
- Recognise the developmental needs of service users, and enable a vocational/educational assessment within a specified time of their contact with the service, and to ensure the service user is supported in progressing plans made for education, training or employment
- Be aware of how your verbal and non-verbal communication can be interpreted by others and ensure a polite approach is maintained at all times
- RMN, OT or Social Worker
- Evidence of post qualification training/education
- Experience of care coordination
- Demonstrable experience of working with people who experience serious ongoing mental health problems
- Experience of assessing and managing crisis in people with severe mental health problems
- Knowledge of Mental Health Law & NHS and Community Care Act 1990
- Knowledge of our business and how it supports patient care
- Ability to maintain and enhance effective working relationships both internally and externally, with a range of professionals and agencies
- Ability to assist the Manager to recruit, manage, motivate, supervise, appraise and develop staff
- Ability to plan, allocate and evaluate own work and develop self to enhance performance
- Excellent time management skills
- Able to meet the needs of clients creatively
- Can demonstrate an ability /experience/willingness to work in a creative manner that is not constrained by disciplinary boundaries
- Can demonstrate an ability to work with the client and their carers /family (as appropriate) in an educatio
