Main area: Care Co-ordinator Grade Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)
Job ref: 310-ASMH-6784956-C
Site: Agenoria House
Town: Wisbech
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
The Fenland Adult Locality Team, based in Wisbech, works with adults in the Fenland area who suffer with severe and enduring mental health. The role will involve holding a caseload of patients with differing mental health conditions.
Your role will support patients to move through their recovery journey. As a CPN, you will be part of the nursing team, including administering depots and holding patients on Clozapine. You will work autonomously whilst working as a fully functioning MDT.
As the smallest locality team in the Trust, we pride ourselves on having a healthy work environment, where you will be encouraged to deliver high quality practice and will be fully supported to continue your CPD to enhance your practice and skills.
Main duties of the job
1. To take on the role of care coordinator for clients and provide leadership to support others, ensuring that full assessment of individual care needs are undertaken, and that care is planned, implemented, and reviewed on a regular basis.
2. To participate on the duty rota.
3. To act as a role model and promote effective teamwork across the service to meet individual clients' needs.
4. To ensure that the Mental Health Act is adhered to at all times, and to work within the boundaries set out by the Trust policies and procedures.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research, and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
The post holder will hold a caseload of patients suffering from severe and enduring mental illness, working towards the recovery model to support patients to achieve positive outcomes.
The post holder will provide a good role model, develop and maintain good systems of communication, and be able to communicate with a wide range of people in various situations.
1. Reporting verbally and in writing with regards to clients' progress, assessments, and care planning to the wider multi-disciplinary team.
2. Maintain accurate and complete records.
3. Discuss with clients and their families/carers regarding care planning, assessments, and treatment.
4. Be able to acknowledge the barriers to effective communication and adapt communication style in response.
5. Maintain professional standards in line with NMC code of conduct and Trust Nursing Strategy.
6. Monitor and maintain the health and security of self and others.
7. Ensure that health and safety legislation is adhered to.
8. Manage emerging situations, taking action as appropriate.
9. Report actual and potential incidents.
10. Attend Trust mandatory training.
11. Contribute to the continuous improvement of services.
12. Identify the implications of direction, policy, and strategy on current practice in a constructive and timely manner.
13. Actively involve service users and the public in service improvements.
14. Timely investigations and response made when dealing with PALs issues in line with Trust policy.
Person specification
Education/qualifications
* Current NMC registration
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Additional qualifications for specialism
Experience
* Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
* Basic training in the mental capacity act
* Experience of providing mentorship
* Experience of dealing with service users with complex mental health needs
* Lived experience of mental health
* Experience of developing service user and carer involvement
Skills and abilities
* Effective communication skills both verbal and written, including IT literacy
* Ability to work as part of a team, as a role model, empowering and motivating other team members
* Ability to use own initiative to enable contribution to a multi-disciplinary team approach
* Ability to calmly manage complex and stressful situations, prioritising own work and the work of others
* Ability to present complex information to various audiences
Knowledge and understanding
* Commitment to and understanding of evidence-based practice
* Awareness of safeguarding issues and responsibilities under relevant legislation
* Understanding of the legislation in relation to care including the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
* The Trust's 7 C's and RESPECT enable Values (REV) initiative expectations
Physical requirements
* Physically able to undertake a demanding role safely - as and when required
* Ability to travel independently within the catchment area
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), we are dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health, and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
* Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
* Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
* Children’s community services in Peterborough;
* Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.
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