EIP Senior Practitioner

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Care Co-ordinator working within the Early Intervention in Psychosis Team based at Parklands House in Basingstoke. The role will involve working across the Mid and North of Hampshire area. The work is varied and interesting and there is a strong team approach ensuring good support for the successful applicant. The role requires lone working, use of initiative and a commitment to team working and service user empowerment. There will be an opportunity to develop your skills working in this specialist team and to maximize your knowledge of working with psychosis. The post holder will be from a mental health nursing background. You will need to be able to work flexibly and to demonstrate knowledge of the CPA process, risk assessment, and the recovery model. This post involves weekend and bank holiday working on a rota basis as per service user need.

Main duties of the job

*To provider evidence-based interventions to people aged between 14 and 65, with early psychosis

*To undertake initial assessment of those presenting with symptoms of psychosis

*To undertake assessment of those with suspected psychosis and those identified as displaying an "at risk mental state"

*To provide specific assessments of symptoms, social functioning, medication side-effects, and family/carer needs

*To provide care co-ordination as per the Trust CPA policy to people in the first three years of psychosis

*Provide specialist psycho-educational/ behavioural family interventions to families and clients dealing with early psychosis

*Offer advice to a range of services within the wider community who may be a first place of contact for a person with emerging mental health problems or their family e.g. schools, colleges, police, etc

*To monitor young people with "at risk" mental states or support others to monitor if this is more appropriate

*To promote a recovery ethos

*To work in a collaborative client-centred manner with both young people and their families/carers

*To manage caseloads and administration systems

*To formulate, implement and evaluate clinical programmes

*To work jointly and collaboratively with other teams to ensure the maximum service flexibility in meeting the persons' needs

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Parklands House

London Road

Basingstoke

Hampshire

RG21 4AP

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Parklands House

London Road

Basingstoke

Hampshire

RG21 4AP

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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