Early Intervention Psychosis Care Co-ordinator inSt Albans inSt Albans PUBLISHED
WED 6 NOV 2024
In this leadership role, you will manage a "Caseload Mini Team," working closely with colleagues to deliver high-quality services while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. The role emphasises a recovery-based approach and innovative practices aimed at helping service users regain control over their lives. Additionally, new social workers will receive a financial incentive upon joining and completion of their first year. HPFT is committed to offering competitive benefits, career development opportunities, and a supportive team environment dedicated to continuous quality improvement.
This vacancy would be suitable for a qualified social worker, occupational therapist or mental health nurse
If you are an experienced social worker, OT or mental health nurse, we would love you to join our team in the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Service - PATH (Psychosis: Prevention, Assessment and Treatment in Hertfordshire). Our service users are people experiencing psychosis for the first time and we are committed to delivering personalised and meaningful care.
The role will be working in the West of Hertfordshire in a specified geographical area, based in St Albans & Harpenden
We welcome applications from candidates interested in Full Time, part time or job sharing. We are committed to supporting flexible working options for staff, wherever possible, and welcome discussions on flexible working patterns to support our staff to maintain a healthy work life balance. We also offer flexible working options.
This role is a real opportunity to build and develop your leadership and delegation skills, as well as maximising the opportunities and support provided by working closely with colleagues, as part of a mini team.
In addition, you will also be trained as a family intervention therapist.
You can find out more about our team here: www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsGcaP
Please contact Mary Ingram on for an informal chat or to arrange a visit. We look forward to hearing from you!
You will be:
- an active member of a skilled multi-disciplinary team
- working together with your colleagues to provide our PATH service in our St Albans and Harpenden Team
- cover a designated locality - not the whole county
- travelling less and work out in the community, both in people's homes and our local hub buildings
- training as a family intervention therapist
You will be passionate in the delivery of recovery based and collaborative approaches to care planning, working flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their individual goals.
Our 'Caseload Mini Team' workforce model is unique and highly supportive of collaborative working. You will work as the Leader of the Mini Team, working closely with a Band 4 & 5 colleague to manage the caseload together.
If you are a qualified social worker, this role attracts a Golden Hello of £3,500, new employees only.
£1,500 on commencement and £2,000 on completion of one years' employment.
About us
You will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary Community Team, will be responsible for the clinical and operational day to day service delivery, providing a high quality social care service to adults of all ages having First Episode Psychosis (FEP). The core functions are to provide assessment, care planning and care co- ordination, including care programme approach, within a framework of recovery which embraces each individuals right to choice and control.
You may be responsible for supervision, development and teaching of junior staff and/or students as delegated by the team manager.
Come and find out more about what we do and consider joining our team. Wed love you to come and work with us!
Heres what our staff say about working in the team:
"I love my job, I see service users over their journey from when they first become unwell to being able to re-start living a rewarding life"
"It's a specialist team, lots of opportunities for career development, it's a very supportive team and we work together as a mini team to look after a case load."
Heres what well offer you in terms of learning and development:
- Youll be offered a structured 12 week induction programme, giving you access to FEP specific learning and development opportunities to give you the confidence and skills to start delivering the FEP pathway to our service users
- Your development is our focus and we will offer a range of ways for you to further your career. Youll have access to personal coaching, to help you achieve your goals, coupled with 100 day conversations and a high quality supervision and appraisal programme.
- Youll want to be a leader and will be encouraged to develop your leadership skills through our offer of bespoke leadership training, high quality profession specific support and opportunities to learn the most effective supervision and personal coaching approaches.
- Youll be an important part of an innovative, creative and developing service. We are committed to a future where we use continuous quality improvement to harness your ideas for service development and make them a reality
- Youll work with a team who have highly specialist knowledge, experience and skills around FEP, where you will have access to a comprehensive internal training package to develop these skills in your first year too
- Delivering the FEP Pathway is a chance to change service users lives, teaching them the skills to self-manage their illness and encouraging self-reliance and independence, as well as helping them rebuild their lives
- Youll be working with people who come with a variety of needs, at various stages of their illness and recovery
- HPFT offers a wide variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts, a lease car scheme AND Excellent pension provision with up to 42 days leave per year
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