Care Coordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the South Community Mental Health Team for a Community Psychiatric Nurse / Social Worker or OT to join us in working to provide integrated health and social care to people of working age who have moderate to severe mental health problems across a wide range of presenting conditions. The post will be based with the South Community Mental Health Team. This covers Hyde and Glossop.

There is a strong commitment to promoting your professional development. You will be supported by clinical and management supervision and will be given the opportunity to develop and enhance clinical skills, interventions and case management through a personal development and training plan.

**Key Responsibilities of the Post**:
As a Care Co-ordinator, you will be responsible for the co-ordination, commissioning and personal delivery of individual packages of care for a caseload of service users within our secondary service

**Key Requirements of the Person Specification**:
**RMN**: Registered Mental Health Nurse

Social Worker

Occupational therapist with care coordination experience

Experience in a relevant area of mental health practice.

Current driving license or supported driver with use of vehicle.

To act as Care Co-ordinator, carry a caseload and work with evidence based interventions

Assess needs

Formulate care plans

Implementation of care plans

Assessment and monitoring of risk

Monitor, review and evaluate care

Liaise with all agencies, and members of the multi-disciplinary team

Carry out clinic duties such as the Clozaril /administration of depot injections either in the clients home or in the clinics if Nurse qualified.

Supervise Community Support Workers / Band 5s and peers as appropriate

To maintain accurate, up to date electronic records

To offer initial mental health and social care assessments

To participate in the CMHT’s duty system on a rota basis. Be able to offer a rapid response to service users’ immediate needs, including those arising from crisis.

To work in a therapeutically informed way within the multi-disciplinary team to address the needs of service users with complex emotional disorders.

To maintain a persistent approach to engagement where there are complex mental health difficulties.

to prioritise and work flexibly with MDT in order to respond to rapidly changing clinical needs.

To promote the physical health and wellbeing

To train as a Safeguarding adult’s manager if not already a SAM

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

Our ambition is to maximise people’s potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
Generous annual leave entitlement

Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance

Access to Continued Professional Development

Involvement in improvement and research activities

Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service

Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

**Responsibilities**:
To act as Care Co-ordinator

To carry a caseload and work with evidence based interventions to include:
- Assessment of need of the service user and carer

Formulation of care plan

Implementation of a plan of care for the service user in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, referring agent, family/carer and service user, where appropriate.

Assessment and monitoring of risk

To monitor, review and evaluate care in accordance with C.P.A

To liaise with all agencies, and members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the needs of the service user are met.

Establish and maintain communication with individuals and groups on the caseload about difficult or complex matters, in such a way as to overcome any problems in communication.

To carry out clinic duties such as the Clozaril /administration of depot injections either in the clients home or in the clinics if Nurse qualified. To manage medication and its administration within Trust Policy

To supervise Community Support Workers / Band 5s and peers as appropriate to implement elements of the care plan.

To maintain accurate, up to date electronic records of all service users referred and receiving assessment, care treatment and support.

To offer initial mental health and social care assessments to those newly referred to the service,

To part