Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
This Post is Open to Mental Health Nurse Applicants Only
This is an exciting development opportunity for a Band 5 Mental Health Nurse to join the Bradford and Airedale Early Intervention in Psychosis Service as a Recovery Care Coordinator.
We work in a multidisciplinary team approach and with excellent formal and informal support to help you manage your workload. Caseloads are set at manageable levels and we offer regular clinical and management supervision along with developmental opportunities relating to our specialist approaches e.g. cognitive behavioural therapy, family interventions, physical health, including various in-house skills-based training to include vocational and psychosocial interventions.
Extensive regular travel across the district is a requirement of the role in order to successfully undertake the range of duties specified within the job description. Therefore, it is essential that applicants have the ability to travel regularly across the district to meet the needs and demands of the service.
Main duties of the job
Job Purpose: Working in partnership with service users, carers, child and adult mental health services, primary care and other agencies, assess, plan and provide programmes of care aimed at optimising social recovery for individuals recovering from a first episode of psychosis.
About us
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
* We Care: We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference.
* We Listen: We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs.
* We Deliver: We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners.
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:
* Increase mileage rates for > 3500
* A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
* A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
* Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.
Right to Work in the UK
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa. Prior to your appointment, you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree level education
* Registered Mental Nursing Certificate (RMN)
* Training in family work
Experience
* Substantial experience of working with young people in a health, education or social care field.
* Experience of working with adults, young people or children in a 'key worker' role.
* Experience of working in an Early Intervention service.
* Experience of working with adults and young people.
* Experience of working with people who use/misuse substances.
* Experience of providing services across traditional boundaries.
* Experience of working in a specialist mental health service.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of the principles of and the evidence base underpinning Early Intervention in Psychosis.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Job Locations
South and West Community Mental Health Team
Date posted
06 January 2025
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 5
£29,970 to £36,483 a year Per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
453-25-6888822
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