Care Co-ordinator

**Care Co-ordinator - Early Intervention in Psychosis**:
**Band 6**:
**Main area**
- Early Intervention in Psychosis
- **Grade**
- Band 6
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-1091**Site**
- Kernow Building
- **Town**
- Redruth
- **Salary**
- £32,306 - £39,027 Per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

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**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

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**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
We are looking for individuals with a mature approach to team working, who have the ability to motivate, to have excellent communications skills to be able to work with a broad age range of clients; and are able to adopt a flexible, creative, adaptable and proactive approach to your work.

You will hold a share of the team caseload in line with EIP guidelines and have the support of experienced clinicians within the multi-disciplinary team and be expected to work to a high standard in engaging with and educating clients and their support network. In addition you will benefit from regular supervision and monthly service focused CPD events.

We are looking to support suitable clinicians in training in Family Intervention and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis over the next few years in order to build on key psychological interventions that we offer.

**Main duties of the job**:
As an EIP practitioner you will be part of a team that triages, assesses and offers a treatment pathway over a 3 year period in line with NICE guidelines to people who are experiencing first episode of psychosis.

You need to utilise social inclusion and recovery approaches and develop links with other agencies and GP surgeries within the community to create opportunities for individuals and promote collaborative working.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment of care needs and clinical management of a defined caseload of individuals with a suspected and first episode of psychosis within the Early Intervention Team.

To carry continuing responsibility for the development, implementation and evaluation of recovery based care programmes for those individuals who are experiencing their first episode of psychosis, utilizing the care co-ordination approach.

The post holder will be required to engage with a range of statutory and non-statutory services to ensure a co-ordinated package of care is delivered to the individual and their family/carer.

The post holder will be required to take a lead role in teaching other team members and staff from outside agencies.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or