Care Coordinator

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 37.5 hour per week post for a band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse or OT within Portsmouth Early Intervention in Psychosis Team. The team currently cover the age range of 14 to 65 years of age. It operates on the 14 day referral to treatment model for first episodes in psychosis. You will need the following for this role:

• A Registered Mental Health Nurse/OT registration/qualification
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Be able to work as part of a team
• Demonstrate an understanding of mental health issues with experience of dealing with emotional distress.
• To effectively co-ordinate the care of a complex caseload of service users experiencing a FEP and offer a NICE concordant package of care.
• To provide recovery focussed therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment.
• To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review, and adjust in line with the service user's needs.
• To work in collaboration with service users as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user.

Main duties of the job

• To effectively co-ordinate the care of a complex caseload of service users experiencing a FEP and offer a NICE concordant package of care.
• To provide recovery focussed therapeutic interventions in line with the agreed care plan and risk assessment.
• To assess risk, develop risk management plans, review, and adjust in line with the service user's needs.
• To work in collaboration with service users as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user.
• To work as a member of the integrated Early Intervention in Psychosis Team in Portsmouth City providing a service to people experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis (FEP)

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If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

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In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

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