About this role
Job summary
Join Our Early Intervention in Psychosis Team - Make a Difference from Day One
Are you a qualifiedSocial Worker, orMental Health Nursewith a passion for mental health care? We're looking for compassionate professionals to join ourEarly Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Service - PATH (Psychosis: Prevention, Assessment and Treatment in Hertfordshire).
Based in St Albans, covering a caseload in Watford (Colne House), this is a rewarding opportunity to support people experiencing psychosis for the first time, delivering personalised and recovery-focused care.
You'll hold a caseload and work closely with the wider MDT,helping you build strong relationships and develop yourleadership and delegation skills.
We welcome applications forfull-time,and are committed toflexible workingthat supports work-life balance.
What we offer:
A values-driven, innovative EIP service
Collaborative multi-disciplinary team working
Flexible working options
Training inFamily Interventions
Opportunities to grow your leadership and clinical skills
To find out more about our team, visit:?PATH & ARMS Team
For an informal chat or to arrange a visit, please contact Sarah Tooley: [email protected] look forward to hearing from you!
Main duties of the job
You will be:
an active member of a skilled multi-disciplinary team working together with your colleagues to provide our PATH service in our Stevenage Team cover a designated locality - not the whole county travelling less and work out in the community, both in people's homes and our local hub buildings training as a family intervention therapist
You will be passionate in the delivery of recovery based and collaborative approaches to care planning, working flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their individual goals.
Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
About us
https://www.hertsnhsgreattogether.co.uk/
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job description Job responsibilities
You will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary Community Team, will be responsible for the clinical and operational day to day service delivery, providing a high quality health and social care service to adults of all ages having First Episode Psychosis (FEP). The core functions are to provide assessment, care planning and care co- ordination, including care programme approach, within a framework of recovery which embraces each individuals right to choice and control.
Come and find out more about what we do and consider joining our team. Wed love you to come and work with us!
Heres what our staff say about working in the team:
"I love my job, I see service users over their journey from when they first become unwell to being able to re-start living a rewarding life"
"It's a specialist team, lots of opportunities for career development, it's a very supportive team and we work together as a mini team to look after a case load."
Heres what well offer you in terms of learning and development:
Youll be offered a structured 12 week induction programme, giving you access to FEP specific learning and development opportunities to give you the confidence and skills to start delivering the FEP pathway to our service users Your development is our focus and we will offer a range of ways for you to further your career. Youll have access to personal coaching, to help you achieve your goals, coupled with 100 day conversations and a high quality supervision and appraisal programme. Youll want to be a leader and will be encouraged to develop your leadership skills through our offer of bespoke leadership training, high quality profession specific support and opportunities to learn the most effective supervision and personal coaching approaches. Youll be an important part of an innovative, creative and developing service. We are committed to a future where we use continuous quality improvement to harness your ideas for service development and make them a reality Youll work with a team who have highly specialist knowledge, experience and skills around FEP, where you will have access to a comprehensive internal training package to develop these skills in your first year too Delivering the FEP Pathway is a chance to change service users lives, teaching them the skills to self-manage their illness and encouraging self-reliance and independence, as well as helping them rebuild their lives Youll be working with people who come with a variety of needs, at various stages of their illness and recovery HPFT offers a wide variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts, a lease car scheme AND Excellent pension provision with up to 42 days leave per yea For a More in-depth Person and Job Description please read attached before applying
Person Specification
Education/Training Essential
Education to degree level or Academic qualifications equivalent (Diploma/Degree in in Mental Health Nursing /Social Work / Occupational Therapy) Registration with NMC/ HCPC/SWE
Desirable
Advance Training in mental health Approved Mental Health Professional/Best Interest Assessment training
Experience and Knowledge Essential
At least 2 years of postregistration experience with at least one year at Band 5 (marginally less experience will be considered if applicant can demonstrate competence). Experience of working in acute mental health inpatient/day care services Experience of working in situations of crisis and emotionally demanding environments Experience and knowledge of safeguarding process; dealing with family breakdown; serious mental ill health and risk of selfharm. Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect
Desirable
Experience of teaching and training
Communication skills Essential
Excellent ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders including service users and carers, other professional colleagues, members of other organisations and local communities, verbally and in writing Experience of using electronic recording systems and ability to produce accurate, appropriate and timely reports.
Physical Skills Essential
Car driver essential, or access to a car (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving). Full UK driving licence Business Insurance to use car for work purposes
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address Team base: 99 Waverley Rd, St Albans; caseload in Watford (Colne House)
99 Waverley Road
St Albans
AL3 5TL
Employer's website https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)