Care Co-ordinator - Homeless Mental Health

Care Co-ordinator - Homeless Mental Health

Band 6

Main area: Psychosis
Grade: Band 6
Contract: 12 months (Fixed term)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 334-CLI-

Site: 190 Kennington Lane, SE11 5DL
Town: London
Salary: £44,806 - £53,134 per annum incl. of HCAs
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/03/:59

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to providing high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for the care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission rates our services as 'good'.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.

As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

About the team:

The START Team works across Lambeth and Southwark and Croydon with rough sleepers who are experiencing severe and enduring mental illness. Many of our service users also present with other complex needs such as substance abuse, social exclusion, and immigration issues.

About the location:

We are based at 190 Kennington Lane near Kennington and Vauxhall tube stations. We also have an office at Jeanette Wallace House in Central Croydon near the overground.

Main duties of the job

About the role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Care Coordinator (Nurse/ Social Worker or Occupational Therapist) to join our service. You will be based within a multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Team and will hold an allocated caseload of service users with needs across mental ill health, substance misuse, and exclusion.

This is a rare opportunity to come and work with the START Team. We would like to meet candidates who have some experience and passion for working with this population. You would be working in a highly-motivated community multi-disciplinary team. There will be opportunities and support for continuing professional development and to actively participate in quality innovations, research, and audit.

Working for our organisation

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you are valued and appreciated, and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave: we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions, and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work-life balance: flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development: There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership, and other talent programmes.
• Car lease: our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.
• Accommodation: our staff benefit from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts: with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Staff restaurants

We look forward to receiving your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Your role will be to undertake assessments, CPA Care Co-ordination whilst providing ongoing risk assessment, planning, co-ordination, and evaluation of care. You will have expertise in crisis and risk management, together with good communication skills.

You will have a passion for working with excluded populations with multiple disadvantages using a relational model which prioritises engagement and pre-treatment. You will be skilled at working with and supporting our third sector colleagues.

Person specification Qualifications

• NMC registered Community psychiatric nurse or HCPC Registered Occupational Therapist/Social Worker

Experience

• At least 1 year's experience working in a mental health or homelessness setting

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the principles of equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice in assessment and the provision of service
• Knowledge of the principles of assertive outreach and of the issues relating to homelessness
• Current and up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation including working knowledge of the principles of CPA (Care Programme Approach), safeguarding, Mental Health and Care Acts.
• Applied knowledge of the principles of risk assessment and risk management

Skills and abilities

• Ability to use information technology systems to input and access data, use word processing systems and Email
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect, and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers, and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect, and dignity.

Please note:

• All applications for this post will need to be made online.
• Read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria.
• The closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should a sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible.
• Once you have submitted your application, you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
• If you have not heard from us within three weeks from the closing date, your application has not been successful.
• Priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
• If you are successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
• We are a smoke-free Trust.

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion. Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.