Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-NEW6303717-A
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Appleby Health Centre
- Town
- Canning Town
- Salary
- £40,701 - £48,054 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Nurse/ Social Worker
Band 6
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
JOB SUMMARY |
Be a member of the Early Intervention service being responsible for the delivery of services to people who are residents of Newham with a recent onset of psychosis as defined by the service referral criteria.Establish a network of relationships with educational, vocational and leisure facilities, and maintain a database/resource of such organisations.Supervise and co-ordinate the work of trainees/students of your related profession, as appropriate.Be involved in training/ health promotion of early onset psychosis as required. Interface effectively with community organisations. |
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities |
• Contribute to the delivery of service to people with recent onset of psychosis.• Provide specialist assessment and psychosocial/psychotherapeutic skills, together with the provision of wide-ranging practical support. • Provide assessments within health (CPA) and social care (care management) frameworks. • Participate in the setting up and running of service user and carer groups, which promote confidence building, meaningful occupation and recovery. • Provide support to service users in line with a ‘whole team approach’, as recommended in Early Intervention in Psychosis best practice literature. • Provide a service, which promotes recovery, identifies people’s needs and strengths, is user centred and holistic, and promotes safety and positive risk taking. • Ensure the service provided is of the best quality and of a standard of professional practice and performance to meet the needs of Newham’s diverse community. • Provide a service, which adheres to policies and procedures. • Provide a service, which is of the highest standard in terms of fair access, equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.
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Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Main Duties and Responsibilities |
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Direct Clinical |
• Management of a personal caseload as agreed with EIS Team Manager and within the set referral criteria. • Participate in the setting up and running of service user and carer groups, which promote confidence building, meaningful occupation and recovery. • Undertake care management/CPA responsibilities and provide clinical /physical health assessments and interventions in line with an Early Intervention in Psychosis approach to interaction and management. This includes using an assertive outreach approach when required, as well as implementing recognised specialist psychosocial assessment and intervention strategies. • Act as a care co-ordinator with an agreed member of service user in line with CPA Policies.
• Establish joint and/or co-working practice for service users where necessary with both adolescent and adult CMHT team members, in-patient unit staff and professionals from other agencies as appropriate.
• Work with other members of the multi-disciplinary CMHT teams and all other relevant health professionals to assess, develop, implement and evaluate high quality packages or service user centred care, as required. • Visit service users at their choice of venue as far as possible, such as their home, day centres, work and recreational centres, and at venues in the community to engage and encourage service user’s participation in interventions and in all aspects of daily living.
• Undertake (where appropriate) assessment of daily living skills, to ascertain functional ability, and level of support and/or accommodation needs to contribute to community care plans. • Participate in interventions jointly with relevant voluntary organisations. • Provide information to help service users make an informed choice about opportunities and services available to them and to then assist service users to obtain the required services, support and entitlement. This may involve acting as advocates for service users and their families/carers.
• Involve families and carers in intervention plans where appropriate, considering issues of confidentiality. This will normally require direct family interventions, to encourage their active support and collaboration with the process of recovery.
• Keep service users and carers (in line with confidentiality protocol) fully informed of their care plan; legal status; intervention etc.
• Ensure principles of risk management and risk assessment are integrated into care plans.
• Administer and/or monitor medication as prescribed in keeping with policies and NMC requirements as appropriate to training. |
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Indirect Clinical |
• Provide support and advice in relation to issues concerning the target service user group or in relation to the EIS worker’s own clinical area of expertise to other team members, relevant health professionals and other agencies as appropriate. • Liaise with professionals of other services to co-ordinate various aspects of the service, and act as care co-ordinator when appropriate for service users on Care Programme Approach, Section 117 or Supervised Discharge. • If from nursing profession, to be responsible for the storage and administration of drugs in line with nursing and CMHT policies. • Carry out statutory responsibilities under the Mental Health Legislation including AMHP responsibilities for those approved by the Local Authority to carry out these duties. • Be available to other team members for informal support and guidance as appropriate. • Develop team links and ensure effective working practice with all related Health and Social Services, voluntary, education and employment agencies.
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Liaison & Partnership working |
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Person specification
Application form qualifications
Essential criteria
- Formal qualifications in health or social care, e.g., RMN, Dip SW, etc. Post registration experience
- Experience of working with people who have serious mental health difficulties in a multi-disciplinary/agency environment
- Experience of working within a health trust or social services department.
- Experience of carrying out assessments to include physical health.
- Experience of supervising junior staff and/or students.
- Experience of promoting recovery.
- Knowledge of welfare and vocational issues.
- Ability to prioritise and manage own workload
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Experience in preparing written and verbal reports
- Ability to work in a team on own initiative
Desirable criteria
- Working in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
- Psychosocial Intervention Qualification and/or recognised psychotherapy training.
- Family intervention training.
- Experience of working with people with first episode of psychosis and their carers
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people who have serious mental health difficulties in a multi-disciplinary/agency environment
- Experience of working within a health trust or social services department.
- Experience of carrying out assessments to include physical health.
- Experience of supervising junior staff and/or students.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with people with first episode of psychosis and their carers
- Working in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge or experience of early intervention in psychosis.
- Experience in preparing written and verbal reports
- Knowledge of welfare and vocational issues.
- Experience of promoting recovery.
- Ability to identify people’s needs and strengths.
- Demonstrate the provision of user centred care
- Demonstrate the ability to make a difference
- Demonstrate the ability to promote safety and positive risk taking.
- Ongoing commitment to personal development and life long learning
- Self motivating, Ability to prioritise and manage own workload
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Presentation and teaching skills
- Flexible and adaptable
- Ability to work in a team on own initiative
- Excellent problem solving skills, Creative and resourceful
Desirable criteria
- Experience of preparing and executing formal and informal presentations
- Experience of participating in the setting up of a new service
- Experience of working within a team caseload/assertive community engagement
- Ability to facilitate development activities across organisations
- Ability to work in partnership and develop constructive relationships
- Experience of liaising with statutory and voluntary sector organisations
- Ability to work holistically with individuals and groups.
- Able to consider the social economic and potential context of mental health difficulties and to address impact on mental health of social economic deprivation, difference, discrimination and racism.
- Ability to manage frequent highly distressing clinical interaction with clients who have serious mental health difficulties
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ellen Murphy
- Job title
- Clinical lead/ Senior Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07880079693
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