Care Co-ordinator in Cambridge

The locality service supports people aged 17 to 65 who are living with severe mental health conditions and have complex psychiatric needs. We use a multi-disciplinary team approach to provide the right care and support.

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:

• You will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines.
• You will need to hold a full UK driving licence and have use of a vehicle.
• You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs.
• 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.
• 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.

About us:

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and 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.

Job 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:

• Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role OR, Registered Social Worker OR Registered OT
• Evidence of continuing Professional Development (CPD)

• 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 providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
• Previous experience of working in the community
• Lived experience of mental health issues

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to develop effective professional relationships with others
• Skills of assessing and interpreting service user conditions with appropriate actions
• Able to use Word, PowerPoint, clinical systems, email and/or willingness to learn

• Ability to travel independently around the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales.
• A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.