Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Care Coordinator to support in our clinical service delivery. Many of our clients have complex needs and this role ensures that clients acquire the support they need to receive multi-agency services.
Main duties of the job
The role involves assessment, care planning and provision of stabilisation support to our most complex clients receiving our services. Working together with our therapists, and legal and welfare staff as part of a truly multi-disciplinary team, the ideal candidate will be a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with significant experience of working in the mental health sector with complex mental health presentations and will have a passion for working with asylum seekers, refugees and survivors of torture.
About us
Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally, we fight to hold torturing states to account and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.
We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivors' rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all of our work.In return, we offer a competitive package, with a generous 30-day annual leave entitlement, and 6% employer pension contribution (minimum 1% employee contribution).
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To carry out complex holistic assessments for those individuals who meet the referral criteria of Freedom from Torture.
- To ensure that all care offered is evidence based and all interventions to take into account any specific physical, cultural, psychological, and spiritual and age related needs.
- To report all relevant information to the referring agent and keep them informed of the clients progress.
- To ensure sound risk assessment of all service users to inform levels of care required and which highlight risk to self and others.
- To manage, formulate and implement treatment plans, delivering care under the rehabilitation model, in collaboration with service users, their families, and other significant persons in care planning and management.
- To support clients to understand and access the different pathways available within the service.
- To evaluate effectiveness whilst working within the framework of rehabilitation.
- To work closely and collaboratively with other members of the team to provide optimal care.
- To work collaboratively with other service providers health, social/community and voluntary, including using social care procedures to directly request community services when appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To carry out complex holistic assessments for those individuals who meet the referral criteria of Freedom from Torture.
- To ensure that all care offered is evidence based and all interventions to take into account any specific physical, cultural, psychological, and spiritual and age related needs.
- To report all relevant information to the referring agent and keep them informed of the clients progress.
- To ensure sound risk assessment of all service users to inform levels of care required and which highlight risk to self and others.
- To manage, formulate and implement treatment plans, delivering care under the rehabilitation model, in collaboration with service users, their families, and other significant persons in care planning and management.
- To support clients to understand and access the different pathways available within the service.
- To evaluate effectiveness whilst working within the framework of rehabilitation.
- To work closely and collaboratively with other members of the team to provide optimal care.
- To work collaboratively with other service providers health, social/community and voluntary, including using social care procedures to directly request community services when appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Mental Health), Social Worker, OT or RMN
- Evidence of post registration development
- Knowledge of safeguarding
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of relevant post registration experience.
- Previous experience of working in community mental health setting in a similar role.
- Advanced Assessment Skills.
- Demonstrate an extensive knowledge of evidence based assessments and interventions.
- Understanding of the work of Freedom from Torture.
- Experience of working collaboratively with carers to meet both the needs of the carer and the user.
- Experience of community work with people with mental health needs.
- Experience of working under pressure, demonstrating the ability to work in a flexible way that is dependent on the circumstances that are presented.
- High level of psychological resilience to be able to work with challenging and distressing content.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Mental Health), Social Worker, OT or RMN
- Evidence of post registration development
- Knowledge of safeguarding
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of relevant post registration experience.
- Previous experience of working in community mental health setting in a similar role.
- Advanced Assessment Skills.
- Demonstrate an extensive knowledge of evidence based assessments and interventions.
- Understanding of the work of Freedom from Torture.
- Experience of working collaboratively with carers to meet both the needs of the carer and the user.
- Experience of community work with people with mental health needs.
- Experience of working under pressure, demonstrating the ability to work in a flexible way that is dependent on the circumstances that are presented.
- High level of psychological resilience to be able to work with challenging and distressing content.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
