Job summary
- Main area
- Rehab And Recovery Team - WESOU
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: Staff will be visiting CQC Registered Care Homes and must be double vaccinated against Covid 19.
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 334-NUR-6386766-FR
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queens Resource Centre
- Town
- Croydon
- Salary
- £40,701 - £48,054 inclusive of Outer London HCAS (Pro-rata for part time post)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Care Coordinator/ Community Mental Health Nurse/OT
NHS AfC: Band 6
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
The Recovery and Rehabilitation team provides a Monday to Friday, 9-5 service that supports clients with Complex mental health needs, who are in Croydon funded residential and supported living placements. Many of our service users have multiple diagnoses including substance misuse, mild learning disability or ASD, physical health or disability issues as well as severe and enduring mental illness, often treatment resistant psychotic disorders, and secondary personality disorders.
We work in a collaborative way, to enable recovery and manage mental health symptoms, whilst promoting the development of activities of daily living skills, working towards step down to more independent accommodation and less restrictive options. We are an integrated SLAM and Local Authority Service, dedicated to supporting our service users to achieve their optimal independence and choice through skills building, illness management, and assets-based, person centred care.
Main duties of the job
The care coordinator's role within the team is to support clients with practical and therapeutic interventions to drive their rehabilitation plans forward, and aid their recovery to maximise their ability to step down into lower supported accommodation.
As part of your professional development you will be expected to lead and supervise junior staff and students, and will be encouraged to take part in your own clinical supervision and appraisal.
Within this role, we will expect you to complete holistic assessments, including mental state, physical health, and risk, whilst creating collaborative person-centred care plans using SMART goals with service users.
For Further Details please read the JD/ Person Spec and other documents.
About the Location
Queens Resource Centre, 66A Queens Road, Croydon, CR0 2PR. The Nearest Train Stations are West Croydon (0.9 miles away) and Thornton Heath (0.8 Miles away). There are several buses that run locally, some stop just outside the centre, others are a few minutes walk away. There is a small car park on site available on a first come first served basis.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
- Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work life balance, flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
- Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
- Accommodation, our staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites
- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
- Counselling services
- Wellbeing events
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Staff restaurants
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Skills
Working autonomously within the parameters of the role leading and supporting junior staff and wider care team to implement the delivery of quality nursing care.
Knowledge and Frameworks
Demonstrating an enhanced understanding of Mental Health signs and
symptoms and an understanding of how these may present in practice including recognition of impact on patient presentation and behaviour including risk factors.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse/Registered Occupational Therapist
- Mentorship/Practice Supervisor and/or assessor Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Relevant Master’s degree
- specialist training in interventions for people with Psychosis and/or ASD
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of reasearch based/reflective practice and ability to use supervision to refelct on skills, attitude and knowledge
- Significant experience in rehabilitation and recovery.work with service users
- Experience as a preceptor or mentor
- Knowledge of clinical governance and audit
- understanding of Care coordination under CPA
- Evidence of understanding all relevant Health and social care legislation (MHA, MCA & DoLs; Health and Social Care Act etc.)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing a caseload
- Experience of supporting practice development in clinical areas
- Awareness/knowledge of the issues surrounding the social inclusion of mental health service users
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of Assets-Based, Person-Centred, collaborative assessment and care planning skills
- Evidence of ability to prioritise work and meet KPI targets
- Excellent communication skills including written and oral skills, listening skills, negotiating skills and use of technology to support communication.
- For NURSING POSTS Evidence of nursing competences, knowledge and skills (e.g physical health screening, assessing mental state, etc)
- Phlebotomy trained (Nurses) or agreement to achieve this as a priority.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of skills in specific skilled interventions [e.g therapeutic interventions (CBT), Specialist assessment (MOHOST)
- Evidence of leading safeguarding investigations
- Evidence of Developing Behavioural Support Plans.
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
- Nicole Kaunda
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 228 5800
- Additional information
If Nicole is not available when contacting please ask to speak to any member of the team who can give you details of the service and the work they do.
Nicole will ring you back if you leave a name and number and please mention it is in relation to this advert.
We STRONGLY advise a visit to the Centre to talk with the Duty person about the work of the team however please book using the above telephone number via RRT Duty.
It is advisable to read both the Nursing and OT Job Descriptions and Person Specification as well as the shortlisting criteria documents as this will help you with your supporting Information.
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