Job overview
We're offering an exciting opportunity to work with the East Kent Early Intervention in Psychosis Mental Health service (EIP) as a Band 6 clinician to work in the East EIP service covering Canterbury and Ashford localities.
The role includes:
1. To manage a caseload of clients experiencing their first episode psychosis with complex needs, using evidence-based / client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
2. To work collaboratively with service users, staff, and carers to identify goals to determine and deliver an appropriate intervention/recovery plan which maximises engagement and performance whilst balancing risk, and promoting choice and
independence.
3. To provide a professional contribution to a multi-disciplinary team to support the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality mental health services with meet existing new policies, practice and standards.
4. To monitor, evaluate and modify therapeutic interventions in order to measure progress and increase efficacy for the best possible service user outcomes and experience.
5. Work with other professions within the service including substance misuse workers, carer peer support workers, STR workers, Non-Medical Prescribers, pharmacist, medics, psychology and Individual Placement Support to ensure that the clients is offered a range of support to meet the individuals and families changing needs.
Main duties of the job
Specialist Care Coordinators have capped caseloads to allow for innovative and focused interventions in partnership with service users, families and carers promoting recovery, social inclusion and well-being in line with NICE guidelines.
The Access and Waiting Time standards ensure that people are offered NICE concordant Interventions early in their treatment. Our service aims to work alongside individuals and their families by adopting strength and recovery-based approach which maximises self-determination, and empowerment. There is a high level of individual and family work, as well as various group work activities including linking in with many partner organisations and professionals with an increasing emphasis on co-production.
6. To provide assessment of service users, analyse and interpret information gained to form an accurate formulation of function, strengths, capabilities and occupational needs.
7. To work collaboratively with service users, staff, and carers to identify goals to determine and deliver an appropriate intervention/recovery plan which maximises engagement and performance while balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
8. To monitor evaluate and modify therapeutic interventions in order to measure progress and increase efficacy for the best possible service user outcomes and experience
9. To act as an experienced clinician supporting best practice in line with NICE guidance and professional standards.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.