Main area: Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9-5)
Employer: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Site: Outram Road, Dukinfield
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 PA, pro rata
Closing Date: 14/01/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 6
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious, and Determined, then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the West Community Mental Health Team for a Community Psychiatric Nurse / Social Worker or OT to provide integrated health and social care to working-age individuals with moderate to severe mental health problems across a wide range of presenting conditions. The post will be based with the West Community Mental Health Team covering Denton, Audenshaw, Dukinfield, and Droylsden.
There is a strong commitment to promoting your professional development. You will be supported by clinical and management supervision and will have the opportunity to develop and enhance clinical skills, interventions, and case management through a personal development and training plan.
Key Responsibilities of the Post:
As a Care Co-ordinator, you will be responsible for the coordination, commissioning, and personal delivery of individual packages of care for a caseload of service users within our secondary service.
Key Requirements of the Person Specification:
* RMN: Registered Mental Health Nurse
* Social Worker
* Occupational therapist with care coordination experience
* Experience in a relevant area of mental health practice.
* Current driving license or supported driver with use of vehicle.
Main Duties of the Job:
* Act as Care Co-ordinator, carry a caseload, and work with evidence-based interventions
* Assess needs
* Implement care plans
* Monitor, review, and evaluate care
* Liaise with all agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team
* Carry out clinic duties such as the Clozaril / administration of depot injections either in the client's home or in the clinics if Nurse qualified.
* Supervise Community Support Workers / Band 5s and peers as appropriate
* Maintain accurate, up-to-date electronic records
* Offer initial mental health and social care assessments
* Participate in the CMHT’s duty system on a rota basis and offer a rapid response to service users’ immediate needs, including those arising from crisis.
* Work in a therapeutically informed way within the multi-disciplinary team to address the needs of service users with complex emotional disorders.
* Maintain a persistent approach to engagement where there are complex mental health difficulties.
* Prioritize and work flexibly with MDT to respond to rapidly changing clinical needs.
* Promote physical health and wellbeing
* Train as a Safeguarding adult’s manager if not already a SAM
* Complete funding applications and review placements and care of service users in a wide range of hospitals and placements.
Working for Our Organisation:
We provide high-quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities, and we work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re proud of our #PennineCarePeople and strive to be a great place to work.
Benefits:
* Generous annual leave entitlement
* Flexible working opportunities
* Access to Continued Professional Development
* Involvement in improvement and research activities
* Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
* Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure, and travel
Person Specification:
Qualifications:
* Social worker or RMN or OT
* Therapeutic / counselling skills
* Safeguarding adults manager
Knowledge:
* Worked with patients with severe and enduring mental health issues for more than 2 years
* Provided clinical supervision
Skills:
* Ability to complete funding applications
* Therapeutic / counselling skills
Skills and Abilities:
* Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
* Completed reports for Mental Health review Tribunal Reports, Best interest Reports, Capacity assessments, Child protection reports, COP DOLS
Sponsorship: We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship.
What Happens After Your Application: You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
Contact: Claire Thomas, Team Manager, Email: claire.thomas79@nhs.net, Phone: 01617163434
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