Job summary
aspire are in search of recovery focused, passionate, and
caring people to join the very friendly team as Early Intervention in Psychosis
Practitioners. This role is RMN specific so you will have an active nursing registration, or be willing to work towards reactivation with the NMC within this role. You'll provide support and guidance to junior staff and a range of students on placement.
As a care coordinator within the team, you'll be dedicated
to delivering a range of bio-psychosocial and trauma informed care. You'll hold a caseload of clients with psychosis and you will provide individualised
care to help them move forward with their goals and recovery.
You should have some experience of mental health services;
this can be as a qualified Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or
Social Worker. We are keen to consider equitable experience in relevant but
different fields such as teaching, probation, policing, and youth work. You must have access to a car for this post.
Whilst most of this role is within usual working hours, there may be some times where some work will be undertaken outside of normal office hours, including evenings and weekends.
aspire is developing an ethos of Open Dialogue and this will inform our practice as a service, going forward.
If you would like to know more about aspire, please come and visit our Recruitment Team at Oakwood Hall on Saturday 1st April 2023 10am until 1pm. You will find us at Oakwood Grange Lane, Roundhay, Leeds, LS8 2PF.
Main duties of the job
You'll have:
- A creative, flexible and imaginative approach to working with our clients
- Experience of working collaboratively with clients, carers, other service providers and stakeholders
- A good understanding and skill in relation to carrying out mental health assessments
- The knowledge to be able to assess and manage risk.
If the above sounds like you, this could be a great job role for you!
What's in it for you?
At Community Links, you'll make a difference to people's lives from the moment you start. You'll benefit from:
- Commitment to flexible working
- Hybrid working
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days
- Many learning and career development opportunities, with paid and tailored training
- Free Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 including access to counselling and GP services
- Employer contributory pension scheme
- Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
- Care workers discounts
- Incremental pay progression
- Access to our Employee Networks including People of Colour, LGBTQ+ and our Accessibility Network
- Health and wellbeing opportunities
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to Corporate Health Plan
We are proudly and actively anti-racist and as such, you are expected to drive the anti-racism agenda forward.
We aim for our workforce to reflect the diverse and exciting region that we service. We're also proudly and actively anti-racist and, as such, you are expected to drive the agenda forward.
About us
Inspire North aims to provide a high-quality customer service adhering to the principles
of best practice, promoting equal opportunities and working positively with diversity.
Inspire North is an ambitious, forward-thinking organisation and you must be
committed to developing and enhancing the services we provide.
Community Links as part of the Inspire North Group is a provider of mental health
support services to socially excluded groups working with vulnerable and
disadvantaged individuals and families. We deliver a range of creative services in
partnership with organisations who share our values across sectors and communities.
The organisation expects all its employees to carry out their duties in a professional
manner with a client focus, ensuring that respect and courtesy is shown to them,
colleagues, other service providers and all those in contact with the organisation. You
are expected to uphold the values and ethos of the Inspire North Group at all times.
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Grace Dunford, Team Leader via email: grace.dunford@commlinks.co.uk.
As an organisation, we believe people can only be at their best and thrive when they can be their authentic self!
We encourage you to apply early as your application will be reviewed as soon as it's received. We reserve the right to close the job advert sooner, subject to finding a suitable candidate.
Good Luck!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Tasks:
- Be the responsible care co-ordinator for a caseload of individuals with first
episode psychosis and their families, in accordance with the Care Programme
Approach Policy and aspire case management procedures.
- Work assertively and in partnership with members of the multi-disciplinary team
e.g. medical staff, psychologists, family therapist, employment specialists and
support time recovery (STR) team.
- Ensure effective communication within a Team Approach model to support
effective planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
- Have a working knowledge of current principles, evidence-based practice and
service provision within Early Interventions in Psychosis
- Undertake initial assessments to identify first episode psychosis. To assess
for, plan, implement and evaluate care and support for clients, making use of
validated assessment tools and outcome measures.
- Assess levels of clinical risk, initiate and review risk management plans
- Work within the requirements of the Mental Health Act for service users where
this is applicable.
- Provide practical support and help to clients and carers in developing
meaningful social support networks
- Work alongside families/carers in providing information and supporting them
emotionally and practically.
- Support service users with gaining work, education and training opportunities.
- Work to promote community awareness of psychosis and reduce stigma within
a range of arenas including primary care settings, educational establishments,
youth services, voluntary and statutory services.
- Promote service user and carer involvement in all aspects of the service
- To ensure that client records and other information systems are completed
accurately and within agreed timescales.
- Ensure that support undertaken is meaningful, respectful, promotes self-determination and is in line with the individual care plan.
- Adhere to organisational policies and procedures relating to risk and personal
safety.
- Participate in regular supervision.
- Keep up-to-date with policies, guidelines, procedures and practices.
- Participate in team meetings and other meetings as required.
- Represent Community Links in a knowledgeable and professional manner at
all times.
- Maintain appropriate professional boundaries at all times.
- Maintain an active registration with your professional body.
- Administer depot injections as required in line with individual treatment and
recovery.
- Identify own training and development needs in conjunction with your line
manager and participate in training opportunities as directed.
- Partake in Inspire Norths Personal Development Review system.
You may, be required to perform any other duties as the organisation may reasonably
require. You undertake to work to the best of your ability and use your best endeavours
to promote, develop and extend the groups business and interests.
Please note this job description is intended to provide a guide to the general duties
and responsibilities of the role the post holder is expected to adopt a flexible approach
to the tasks. It should not be regarded as a contractual document. It will be reviewed
regularly and may be varied at the discretion of Inspire North.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Tasks:
- Be the responsible care co-ordinator for a caseload of individuals with first
episode psychosis and their families, in accordance with the Care Programme
Approach Policy and aspire case management procedures.
- Work assertively and in partnership with members of the multi-disciplinary team
e.g. medical staff, psychologists, family therapist, employment specialists and
support time recovery (STR) team.
- Ensure effective communication within a Team Approach model to support
effective planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
- Have a working knowledge of current principles, evidence-based practice and
service provision within Early Interventions in Psychosis
- Undertake initial assessments to identify first episode psychosis. To assess
for, plan, implement and evaluate care and support for clients, making use of
validated assessment tools and outcome measures.
- Assess levels of clinical risk, initiate and review risk management plans
- Work within the requirements of the Mental Health Act for service users where
this is applicable.
- Provide practical support and help to clients and carers in developing
meaningful social support networks
- Work alongside families/carers in providing information and supporting them
emotionally and practically.
- Support service users with gaining work, education and training opportunities.
- Work to promote community awareness of psychosis and reduce stigma within
a range of arenas including primary care settings, educational establishments,
youth services, voluntary and statutory services.
- Promote service user and carer involvement in all aspects of the service
- To ensure that client records and other information systems are completed
accurately and within agreed timescales.
- Ensure that support undertaken is meaningful, respectful, promotes self-determination and is in line with the individual care plan.
- Adhere to organisational policies and procedures relating to risk and personal
safety.
- Participate in regular supervision.
- Keep up-to-date with policies, guidelines, procedures and practices.
- Participate in team meetings and other meetings as required.
- Represent Community Links in a knowledgeable and professional manner at
all times.
- Maintain appropriate professional boundaries at all times.
- Maintain an active registration with your professional body.
- Administer depot injections as required in line with individual treatment and
recovery.
- Identify own training and development needs in conjunction with your line
manager and participate in training opportunities as directed.
- Partake in Inspire Norths Personal Development Review system.
You may, be required to perform any other duties as the organisation may reasonably
require. You undertake to work to the best of your ability and use your best endeavours
to promote, develop and extend the groups business and interests.
Please note this job description is intended to provide a guide to the general duties
and responsibilities of the role the post holder is expected to adopt a flexible approach
to the tasks. It should not be regarded as a contractual document. It will be reviewed
regularly and may be varied at the discretion of Inspire North.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and Skills
- Good technical literacy of Microsoft
- Applications e.g. Word, Excel, Power
- point, Outlook, Access
- Good written communication skills,
- including accuracy and attention to
- detail.
- Good interpersonal skills including
- listening and display empathy
- Creative, flexible and imaginative
- approach to working with people with
- mental health
- Able to work collaboratively and
- positively with clients, carers, other
- service providers and stakeholders;
- using open and honest communication
- Able to work as part of a team but also
- use own initiative within parameters of
- responsibility
- Able to engage clients assertively and
- creatively.
- Possess good skills in relation to mental
- health assessment
- Able to assess and manage risk within a
- positive risk-taking environment
- Knowledge of the use of the MHA in
- relation to the client group and
- responsibilities of the care co-ordinator
- within this
- Have access to a car for work purposes
- and hold a full current UK driving licence
Desirable
- Knowledge and Skills
- Experience of engaging clients in a
- community setting.
- Demonstrate skills in dual diagnosis and
- substance use work
- Qualification in plain English Second
- Language e.g. Urdu, Polish, BSL
Experience
Essential
- Possess RMN qualification and
- registration or be working towards this.
- Experience of working as part of a
- team/MDT in a mental health setting.
- Experience of mental health either as
- service user, carer, worker or volunteer.
Desirable
- Experience of working with the Child
- and Adolescent Mental Health Service
- (CAMHS)
- Experience of working in an early
- intervention service; familiarity with the
- principles and model of early
- intervention
- Experience of managing a case load.
- Experience of working within the CPA
- framework
- Experience in delivering evidence-based interventions relevant to first
- episode psychosis
- Knowledge or experience of Open
- Dialogue principles/ practice, or
- Network Meetings.
- Experience of mental health either as
- service user, carer, worker or
- volunteer.
Qualifications
Essential
- Approach
- Demonstrate understanding and
- commitment to equal opportunities and
- diversity
- Demonstrate a commitment and
- enthusiasm for working with our service
- user group
- Able to build and maintain relationships
- whilst maintaining appropriate
- professional boundaries
- Demonstrate a willingness to participate
- in shaping the future of the organisation
- by taking on responsibilities and
- projects in addition to core workload
- Demonstrate a commitment to enabling
- and empowering clients to become
- actively involved in Inspire North and its
- Associated Companies
- Positive attitude towards training and
- Continuous Professional Development
- Demonstrate an understanding of and
- commitment to our anti-racism agenda.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and Skills
- Good technical literacy of Microsoft
- Applications e.g. Word, Excel, Power
- point, Outlook, Access
- Good written communication skills,
- including accuracy and attention to
- detail.
- Good interpersonal skills including
- listening and display empathy
- Creative, flexible and imaginative
- approach to working with people with
- mental health
- Able to work collaboratively and
- positively with clients, carers, other
- service providers and stakeholders;
- using open and honest communication
- Able to work as part of a team but also
- use own initiative within parameters of
- responsibility
- Able to engage clients assertively and
- creatively.
- Possess good skills in relation to mental
- health assessment
- Able to assess and manage risk within a
- positive risk-taking environment
- Knowledge of the use of the MHA in
- relation to the client group and
- responsibilities of the care co-ordinator
- within this
- Have access to a car for work purposes
- and hold a full current UK driving licence
Desirable
- Knowledge and Skills
- Experience of engaging clients in a
- community setting.
- Demonstrate skills in dual diagnosis and
- substance use work
- Qualification in plain English Second
- Language e.g. Urdu, Polish, BSL
Experience
Essential
- Possess RMN qualification and
- registration or be working towards this.
- Experience of working as part of a
- team/MDT in a mental health setting.
- Experience of mental health either as
- service user, carer, worker or volunteer.
Desirable
- Experience of working with the Child
- and Adolescent Mental Health Service
- (CAMHS)
- Experience of working in an early
- intervention service; familiarity with the
- principles and model of early
- intervention
- Experience of managing a case load.
- Experience of working within the CPA
- framework
- Experience in delivering evidence-based interventions relevant to first
- episode psychosis
- Knowledge or experience of Open
- Dialogue principles/ practice, or
- Network Meetings.
- Experience of mental health either as
- service user, carer, worker or
- volunteer.
Qualifications
Essential
- Approach
- Demonstrate understanding and
- commitment to equal opportunities and
- diversity
- Demonstrate a commitment and
- enthusiasm for working with our service
- user group
- Able to build and maintain relationships
- whilst maintaining appropriate
- professional boundaries
- Demonstrate a willingness to participate
- in shaping the future of the organisation
- by taking on responsibilities and
- projects in addition to core workload
- Demonstrate a commitment to enabling
- and empowering clients to become
- actively involved in Inspire North and its
- Associated Companies
- Positive attitude towards training and
- Continuous Professional Development
- Demonstrate an understanding of and
- commitment to our anti-racism agenda.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
