Job overview
CAMEO operates across our Foundation Trust via two established bases in Cambridge and Peterborough.
This post will be located in the dynamic and multi cultural city of Cambridge. We are seeking to recruit dynamic and enthusiastic Band Care Coordinators: Nurses, Social Workers or Occupational Therapists. The practitioner will provide specialist advice, assess, plan and implement care to a designated caseload whilst working at all times to promote the
safety and well-being of service users and their families/carers.
The individual must be compassionate, committed and have good working knowledge of psychosis. If you are passionate about the values that
underpin EI work and in supporting service users throughout their recovery journey's, then we look forward to meeting you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner and responsible for a defined caseload of service users.
The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under pressure and with a desire for innovation.
We are able to support agile working for staff, using all appropriate equipment and support.
• To undertake assessments of individuals and their families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, including
those service users presenting with higher levels of risk
• They will work alongside the service user to develop their care plan along the recovery principles.
• To offer specialist assessment and advice where required.
• To assess, manage and regularly review on going risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration
with the service user and carers.
• To ensure that clinical practice is evidence based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
• To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate (mentorship and preceptorship qualifications)
• To act within the relevant Code of Conduct dependent on your Registration Body.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with
compassion to improve the health & well-being of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community.
These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison
psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage
applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic
minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.