EIS Mental Health Practitioner / Care Co-ordinator in Manchester

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join our specialist service for people experiencing a first episode of psychosis. We are recruiting two Band 6 Mental Health Practitioners / Care co-ordinators for teams covering the area of Manchester.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Act as Care-Coordinator for appropriate clients under the Care Programme Approach (CPA).
• Be a full member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
• Effectively manage own caseload accepting referrals from agreed agencies in accordance with agreed operational procedures.
• Assess, care-plan, provide interventions and evaluate and record community mental health interventions delivered to clients on own caseload.
• Undertake formal mental health assessments of new clients within own caseload.
• Undertake assessments of clients as part of the EIT duty system in accordance with agreed operational procedures.
• Contribute to the service duty roster for their team locality.
• Manage discharges from the service and transfers to other services as appropriate for service users who are not accepted for the full First Episode Pathway service following assessment.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and provide advice to other professionals on acute and chronic aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• Work as part of our integrated MDT, attend daily meetings to feed back the outcomes of assessments undertaken, and participate in a clinical decision-making process to determine the most appropriate management plans for all service users who have received an assessment.
• Maintain a high standard of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry, and ensure compliance with any associated performance standards.
• Liaise professionally and sensitively with other involved parties to obtain further information pertinent to the holistic assessment process.
• Provide advice, guidance and consultation to peer and junior professionals within the service, both individually, and by attendance at team referral and review meetings.

Teaching, training and supervision

• The post holder will receive regular clinical and managerial supervision.
• Remain informed of current research and guidance to support own professional work and contribute related knowledge to the MDT.

General

• Contribute to the development and articulation of best practice across the service, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
• This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job.

Trust Mandatory Ongoing Requirements

• To undertake any other reasonable duty, when requested to do so by an appropriate Trust manager.
• Understand and comply with all Trust policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines.
• Understand the Trusts Strategic Goals and how you can support them.
• Understand the need to safeguard children and vulnerable adults and adhere to all principles in effective safeguarding.
• Carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with Equal Opportunities, Equality and Diversity and dignity in care/work policies and principles.
• Avoid unlawful discriminatory behaviour and actions when dealing with colleagues, service users, members of the public and all stakeholders.
• Access only information, where paper, electronic, or in another media, which is authorised to you as part of the duties of your role.
• Maintain high standards of quality in corporate and clinical record keeping ensuring information is always recorded accurately, appropriately and kept up to date.
• Ensure day-to-day activities embrace sustainability and reduce the impact upon the environment.
• Take reasonable care of the health and safety of yourself and other persons.
• Contribute to the control of risk and report any incident, accident or near miss.
• Protect service users, visitors and employees against the risk of acquiring health care associated infections.
• Take responsibility for your own learning and development by recognising and taking advantage of all opportunities to learn in line with appraisal and supervision.

Person specification

• SWE/HCPC/Nursing Experience in an EIP Service.
• Minimum two years post qualifying experience of PANSS assessments.

EEO statement

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities.