Job overview
We're offering an exciting opportunity to work with the East Kent Early Intervention in Psychosis Mental Health service (EIP) as a Band 6 clinician, covering Canterbury and Ashford localities.
The role includes:
* Managing a caseload of clients experiencing their first episode psychosis with complex needs, using evidence-based and client-centered principles to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions.
* Collaborating with service users, staff, and carers to identify goals and deliver appropriate intervention and recovery plans that maximize engagement and performance while balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
* Contributing professionally to a multidisciplinary team to support the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality mental health services in line with current policies, practices, and standards.
* Monitoring, evaluating, and modifying therapeutic interventions to measure progress and enhance efficacy for optimal service user outcomes and experiences.
* Working with other professionals within the service, including substance misuse workers, peer support workers, STR workers, Non-Medical Prescribers, pharmacists, medics, psychologists, and Individual Placement Support, to ensure clients receive a range of support tailored to their and their families' changing needs.
Main duties of the job
Specialist Care Coordinators have capped caseloads to facilitate innovative and focused interventions, promoting recovery, social inclusion, and well-being in accordance with NICE guidelines.
The service adheres to Access and Waiting Time standards, ensuring early offer of NICE-concordant interventions. We adopt a strength and recovery-based approach that maximizes self-determination and empowerment, with a strong emphasis on individual and family work, group activities, and collaboration with partner organizations.
* Assess service users, analyze and interpret information to develop accurate formulations of function, strengths, capabilities, and occupational needs.
* Work collaboratively with service users, staff, and carers to set goals and deliver recovery plans that promote engagement, performance, risk management, choice, and independence.
* Evaluate and adapt therapeutic interventions to improve outcomes and experiences.
* Support best practice in line with NICE guidance and professional standards as an experienced clinician.
Working for our organisation
Join us in the Garden of England, where we offer exceptional professional development opportunities and a high quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability, and specialist services to 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust, rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care, employs 3,283 staff across 66 buildings and 33 locations covering 1,450 square miles.
You will work alongside friendly, passionate colleagues committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones, with kindness and compassion as standard.
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