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Main area: Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent: 9-5 Monday to Friday Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9-5) Job ref 311-T476-24-D
Site: Outram Road Town Dukinfield Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 PA, pro rata Salary period: Yearly Closing: 14/01/2025 23:59
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 join us in working to provide integrated health and social care to people of working age who have 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 be given 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 co-ordination, commissioning and personal delivery of individual packages of care for a caseload of service users within our secondary service.
Main duties of the job:
* To act as Care Co-ordinator, carry a caseload and work with evidence based interventions
* Assess needs
* Implementation of care plans
* Assessment and monitoring of risk
* 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 clients home or in the clinics if Nurse qualified.
* Supervise Community Support Workers / Band 5s and peers as appropriate
* To maintain accurate, up to date electronic records
* To offer initial mental health and social care assessments
* To participate in the CMHT’s duty system on a rota basis, offering rapid response to service users’ immediate needs, including those arising from crisis.
* To work in a therapeutically informed way within the multi-disciplinary team to address the needs of service users with complex emotional disorders.
* To maintain a persistent approach to engagement where there are complex mental health difficulties.
* To prioritise and work flexibly with MDT in order to respond to rapidly changing clinical needs.
* To promote the physical health and wellbeing
* To train as a Safeguarding adult’s manager if not already a SAM
* To complete funding applications and review placements and care of service users in a wide range of hospitals and placements.
Working for our organisation:
We are proud to 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 our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
Our ambition is to maximise people’s potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
* To act as Care Co-ordinator
* To carry a caseload and work with evidence based interventions to include:
* Assessment of need of the service user and carer
* Formulation of care plan
* Implementation of a plan of care for the service user in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, referring agent, family/carer and service user, where appropriate.
* Assessment and monitoring of risk
* To monitor, review and evaluate care in accordance with C.P.A
* To liaise with all agencies, and members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the needs of the service user are met.
* Establish and maintain communication with individuals and groups on the caseload about difficult or complex matters.
* To carry out clinic duties such as the Clozaril / administration of depot injections either in the clients home or in the clinics if Nurse qualified.
* To supervise Community Support Workers / Band 5s and peers as appropriate to implement elements of the care plan.
* To maintain accurate, up to date electronic records of all service users referred and receiving assessment, care treatment and support.
* To offer initial mental health and social care assessments to those newly referred to the service.
* To participate in the CMHT’s duty system on a rota basis, offering rapid response to service users’ immediate needs, including those arising from crises.
* To work in a therapeutically informed way within the multi-disciplinary team to address the needs of service users with complex emotional disorders.
* To maintain a persistent approach to engagement where there are complex mental health difficulties.
* To have the capacity to prioritise and work flexibly with MDT in order to respond to rapidly changing clinical needs.
* To promote the physical health and wellbeing of service users.
* To train as a Safeguarding adult’s manager if not already a SAM
* To complete funding applications and review placements and care of service users in a wide range of hospitals and placements.
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 has been received?
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.
What happens if I am offered the position after interview?
The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.
What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?
* Identity verification
* Right to work check
* Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
* Professional registration and/or qualification check
* Occupational health assessment
* Employment history and reference validation
Other important information:
* We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce.
* If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
* If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application.
* We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our hiring managers directly.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure your application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.
Name: Claire Thomas Job title: Team Manager Email address: claire.thomas79@nhs.net Telephone number: 01617163434
Available for an informal discussion/visits- please contact Claire Thomas on 0161 716 3434.
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