Care Co-ordinator

The service supports working-age adults who have severe affective and psychotic disorders. The teams offer support in a number of ways, drawing from the expertise of such a variety of disciplines.

To be right for this job:

• You have a degree or relevant professional registration as a Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker and will be an active member of a dynamic, highly motivated, skilled and creative team.
• You will be working in a supportive environment that values your supervision and professional development.
• You will have a voice and role to play in service development.
• You will have the opportunity to manage a caseload of diverse service users, delivering a diverse range of clinical skills and building a therapeutic and recovery-based relationship.

Recovery principles are embedded in the work of the locality teams and we aim to support people to reach their potential by facilitating hope, empowering autonomy and developing meaning and purpose in life.

Main duties of the job:

• The ideal candidate will have a strong teamwork ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under pressure and with a desire for innovation.
• We are able to support agile working for staff, using all appropriate I.T equipment and support, and have a secure area for staff bicycles.
• The city provides a good opportunity to be active at work, with staff being able to cycle to local appointments.
• You will be involved in the delivery of care-coordination to a specified caseload operating under the CPA framework, a daily duty service, ongoing risk management, care planning, support around benefits and housing, carers’ assessments, physical health care and a wide variety of therapeutic interventions for which you can access training and supervision.
• You will also be involved in ensuring that the service is a positive learning environment for students from various disciplines.

Working for our organisation:

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care settings but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications. Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• To undertake assessment of individuals and their families/carers accessing the service with complex health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk.
• To develop alongside the service user, their care plan.
• To offer specialist professional assessment and advice where required.
• To assess and manage ongoing risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the service user and carers.
• To regularly review risk factors and make changes to the management of them as necessary.
• To work using assertive outreach approaches to engage the service user and their families.
• To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust nursing strategy.
• To ensure that clinical practice is evidence-based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
• To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate.
• To act within the professional code of conduct at all times.

Person specification:

• Education/Qualifications: Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role OR, Registered Social Worker OR, Registered OT. Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Experience: Significant post-qualifying experience in working with those presenting with serious mental illness. Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group. Experience of supervising staff. Experience of managing a caseload. Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems. Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments. Experience and knowledge of dual diagnosis/substance misuse. Previous experience of working in the community.
• Skills & Abilities: Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to develop effective professional relationships with others. Develop own skills and knowledge and provide information to others to help their development. Skills of assessing and interpreting service user conditions with appropriate actions. Plan and organise complex activities or programmes requiring formulation and review. Able to use Word, PowerPoint, clinical systems, email and/or willingness to learn. The ability to multitask and mental adaptation to different unpredictable situations.
• Physical Requirements/Other: Ability to use manual handling techniques. Energy to work with younger and older people. Required to use a PC. Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required. Ability to travel across sites.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including: Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people; Specialist mental health and learning disability services; Children’s community services in Peterborough; Ground-breaking research.

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.