Care Coordinator

The role of the Early Intervention Practitioner is to work in partnership with “At Risk mental state” (ARMS) and First Episode of Psychosis (FEP) service users wrapping care and treatment around hope and aspirations informing their care and recovery plans.

They will demonstrate an understanding of clinical interventions evidenced based for this particular care group – including education and support, carer and family psycho-education and risk minimisation planning. The post holder will work at all times flexibly and to promote the safety and the wellbeing of service users and their families/carers.

The post holder will assess, plan and implement care, and provide specialist advice.

We are seeking to recruit a dynamicBand 6 Care Coordinator either a Nurse or Occupational Therapist (OT) based atHammersmith and Fulham. The individual must be enthusiastic, committed, compassionate and experienced with a good knowledge of the issues and guidance around working with psychosis. In addition, have some experience of working with young people and adults aged 14years to 65 years with a range of complex mental health issues.

The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner and responsible for a defined caseload of service users by undertaking these duties:

• To undertake assessments of individuals and their families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk
• They will work alongside the service user to develop their care plan along the recovery principles.
• To offer specialist assessment and advice where required.
• To assess, manage and regular review on going risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the service user and carers.
• 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 (mentorship and preceptorship qualifications)
• To act within the relevant Code of Conduct dependent on your Registration Body.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

Partnerships

To develop care plans that meet the needs of the individual and their family/carers as appropriate and that are focused on strengths and are outcome based. To plan and implement client centred individual, family and group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.

To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.

To administer or monitor medication prescribed to individual service users, providing information and advice.

Maintain the safe custody and control of medication (Nurses Only).

To administer medication within NMC guidelines and the Trusts Medicines Code (Nurses Only).

Ensure safe disposal of clinical waste.

Implement of all policies and procedures as appropriate.

To discuss with the service user and when appropriate, with their carers, their health problems and how they see and understand them, facilitating a process of developing their understanding and maintaining their hope for the future.

To promote the empowerment of individual service users to manage their health as much as possible and use Self Directed Support / direct payments as indicated.

To work with carers and family members offering carers assessments and providing support and information to them as indicated. Signposting to third sector agencies to ensure they receive appropriate advice and support. Advising carers about the triggers around risk factors relating to the service user, within the boundaries of confidentiality.

To assertively engage with service users, striving at all times to develop good therapeutic relationships.

To monitor, risk, progress and where necessary compliance including the service users views to their care and treatment and when appropriate to work in partnership with the service users, family and carers. To explain and discuss medication with the service user, including side effects they may experience and the role that the medication may have in their recovery or ongoing care.

To carry out assessments of clients work, educational, vocational and housing needs/aspirations and ensure that these are met where appropriate.

To carry out carers assessments and have working knowledge of safeguarding Adults and Children procedures and have relevant training in chairing Safeguarding strategy meetings.