Care Coordinator

Band 6 - £32,306 - £39,027 plus 5% fringe allowance
Full Time - 37.5 hours per week
Base - Thurrock

This is an exciting opportunity to work in and contribute to the effectiveness of the West Essex Support and Treatment for Early Psychosis Service (ESTEP) and to gain some new experience for your own personal development. We are recruiting additional staff to join our already fantastic team to meet the National Early Intervention standards.

The WEST ESTEP Team cover Thurrock, Brentwood, Basildon, Billericay and Wickford.

However, you are expected to work flexibly and where appropriate jointly with the East ESTEP Team.

As part of this team, you will be expected to work closely with clients with a first episode psychosis aged between 14-65 years and their families.

We strongly encourage creative engagement and a focus on social recovery.

We work very closely as a multi-disciplinary team and expect all team members to support our commitment to a programme of education and awareness to carers and in the local community

This position is a full time role but is also available as a job share.
- To undertake care co-ordination of a small caseload of clients.
- Carry responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of recovery based care plans.
- Participate in collection of data including looking at entry and exit pathways to care, and duration of untreated psychosis as well as Dialogue & QPR to ensure that we provide a successful service in terms of high quality outcomes.
- To maintain effective individualised care through assessment of service user and carers problems. Plan, implement and evaluate interventions and clear, accurate and concise documentation of individualised care.
- Undertake initial health and social needs assessments and participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings to look at appropriate selection and allocation of clients to CPA and regular reviews.
- Following analysis of client assessments, plan creatively to meet their needs including the provision of evidence based interventions.
- Prioritise and manage workload to ensure the effective management of a defined group of clients with complex needs.
- Work flexibly across the West ESTEP Service and participate in 7-day rota.

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

For additional details on this vacancy please refer to the job description and person specification.