Job summary
Are you looking for a change in career and do you like working in a challenging and rewarding setting? Do you want to build on and enhance the high level of skills and experience you already possess, why not consider this opportunity to join the Early Intervention in Psychosis team? The service works with people between the ages of 14 - 65 who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis. We are looking for qualified, motivated, enthusiastic, self-directed mental health practitioners to join the team as a Care Co-ordinator with opportunities to be part of our assessment team. You will be involved in the patient journey from triage, assessment through to offering interventions supporting service users to recover from psychosis. The service delivers both managerial supervision and clinical supervision from specialist staff. There is in-house training on all aspects of the service including psychological formulation, Family Interventions, CBT skills and assessment skills. Preferably you will have experience of working in a community setting, but this is not essential.
Shortlisting planned for 20 May 2024
Interview planned for 6 June 2024
Main duties of the job
Liverpool Early Intervention Team is divided into two teams (North Liverpool and South/Central Liverpool). Service Users will fall under the relevant team based on their GP location and catchment area. As a practitioner, you will be based in one team so that we can deliver care safely, efficiently, and effectively. If successful, you will be part of a multi disciplinary team delivering a range of evidence-based interventions that fall within NICE guidelines.
Each team consists ofa lead Consultant Psychiatrist, Team Leader,Care Coordinators,Psychology Team, Family Therapists, Support Time Recovery Workers,and IPS successful candidate will work along side all members of the team to ensure a holistic, recovery focus is maintained throughout the service user pathway.
The successful candidate will also work in partnership with other agencies/teams, such as CJLT, CRHT, social care and addictions services, to promote a collaborative focus on care.
We fully promote professional/personal training and development, and there are opportunities to train in-house and CPD and develop your clinical skills through supervision, complex case discussions, and reflective practice. We also provide CAARMS training, which is a specialist assessment for psychosis, and further training on how to deliver family interventions.
We are a supportive team, and the post holder would have support from the Service Managers, Clinical Leads.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To coordinate the care of service users carrying out assessment planning,implementation and evaluation of their care under the guidelines of the care programme approach and under the supervision of the line To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that unqualified staff are delivering care as identified in the care To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care To undertake and supervise risk assessments and formulation of risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team, family members carers and significant To ensure Safeguarding Children and Adults requirements are followed and participate in meetings as To direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service To participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence based and research To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service To communicate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team information which has an impact on the service users use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive check understanding of information where there are barriers to effective give and receive accurate up-to-date information regarding service users care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings etc. These reviews may be external to the have accurate and up-todate knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant appropriate to job role take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing & Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. To supervise and monitor the entries made by unqualified reports both in written and verbal formats as ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per trust policy and that any follow up action is react pro-actively in cases of service user crisis and put in place immediate plans to resolve the situation with supervision and guidance as actively participate in team meetings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree level RMN, AHP, Social Worker
2. Evidence of post registration study/continuing professional development Mentorship in Practice
Desirable
3. Working towards Masters level education
Experience
Essential
4. Significant demonstrable post registration experience in mental health
5. Evidence of leadership and management skills
6. Evidence of experience of managing cases and case loads
7. Evidence of supervising staff
8. Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies
9. Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers
10. Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance
11. Experience in change management and policy formulation
12. Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems DATIX
13. Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews
14. Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
15. Able to coommunicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally
16. Being responsive and flexible, seeing changes as an opportunity to improve services
17. Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
18. Leadership skills
19. Ability to work within a CBU management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines
20. Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation
21. Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation
22. Demonstrate knowledge of ECC guidelines
23. Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide an education and supervision to junior staff
24. Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staff's responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base
Personal Attributes
Essential
25. Professional Attitude
26. Possess excellent listening and negotiating skills and leadership skills
27. Excellent oral and written skills
28. Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
29. The ability to lead change management
30. Ability to contribute to developing care excellence within the ward/team area
Values
Essential
31. Continuous Improvement
32. Accountability
33. Respectfulness
34. Enthusiasm
35. Support
36. High professional standards
37. Responsive to service users
38. Engaging leadership style
39. Strong customer service belief
40. Transparency and honesty
41. Discreet
42. Change oriented