Band 6 Nurse Care Coordinator - Swindon

Job overview

Job Summary:

The role would involve the care co-ordination of a number of Service Users.  You will also be involved in assessments and delivering a range of interventions to both individuals and their families and to groups.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside many other clinicians including family workers, CBT therapists, consultant psychiatrists and psychologists.

Driving is a must and your own transport is essential for this role as supporting clients to appointments is part of the work.  The team does work flexibly in order to reach clients and carers so some working outside of office hours at times  is to be expected.   In return you will get to work as part of a small MDT team with a real team approach.  There may be opportunities in the future to train in psychological interventions to support your practice.  There will be opportunities to network and join in shared learning with other recovery teams, both in AWP and in the South West.

Main duties of the job

Job Purpose:

To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings. This will include:

• The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV. Recovery Star. History, strengths and aspirations. Mental state. Impact of culture and diversity. Functional needs. The needs of family and carer. Evaluation of risk. Physical health. Complicating factors. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change. Social care needs. Safeguarding and public protection. Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act.
• The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV. Recovery Star. History, strengths and aspirations. Mental state. Impact of culture and diversity. Functional needs. The needs of family and carer. Evaluation of risk. Physical health. Complicating factors. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change. Social care needs. Safeguarding and public protection. Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act.
• The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV.
• Recovery Star.
• History, strengths and aspirations.
• Mental state.
• Impact of culture and diversity.
• Functional needs.
• The needs of family and carer.
• Evaluation of risk.
• Physical health.
• Complicating factors.
• The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
• Social care needs.
• Safeguarding and public protection.
• Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To deliver a range of activities/defined interventions to improve the friends/relatives/carers (carers) ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.

• To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services is maintained throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominate carers/advocates.

• In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc., involving other agencies such as primary care etc. where appropriate.

• To personally build, hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person, and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.

• To be responsible for maintaining own workload, on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, making full use of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.

To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, by contributing with others to the plans to protect people at risk, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

To facilitate access for service users and carers to appropriate community services and interventions outside secondary mental health services and across the complete recovery pathway.

Personally working collaboratively and sensitively with individuals with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches, which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experience and success, and use small steps to move towards the persons goal.

To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.

Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

To proactively participate in management, workload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy, taking personal responsibility for making appropriate arrangements.

To provide mentoring/ training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care. Specifically this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students, participating in their learning objectives and assessments.

The ASYE, or Assessed and Supported Year in Employment is a programme of development for all newly qualified social workers (NQSWS), overseen and moderated by Skills for Care.  Each NQSW, during their first year in employment, is required to produce a portfolio of evidence, demonstrating how they have met 9 professional capabilities.  They are required to undertake regular and supported critically reflective supervision with a dedicated assessor, undertake 3 direct observations of their practice and produce 2 pieces of critical reflection, as well as gathering evidence from professionals and service users.

In acknowledgement of the significant amount of work required of the programme we have sought and gained agreement from the trust that all newly qualified social workers should initially be appointed at a Band 5 level.  We have discussed with HR and all job advertisements and job descriptions for which social workers are eligible to apply, will now include the ASYE as an essential criteria for NQSWs and inform them that progression to Band 6 is dependent on the successful completion of the ASYE.

This does not bar NQSWs from applying for Band 6 opportunities but recruiting managers must be mindful that, unless exceptional circumstances can be applied, all NQSWs will start at Band 5.