Are you passionate about working with service users in Later Life? If so, we have a vacancy for a Band 6 CPN in our skilled and experienced multi-disciplinary team. Part of your role will involve Care Co-ordination.

This post offers varied and interesting work with older people who have severe mental health problems, both functional and organic. You will be working collaboratively with service users and carers to provide a range of services including evidence based psycho- social interventions and medication management. You will be working with service users with functional or organic disorders.

The role will give you the opportunity to develop your existing skills in specialist assessment and interventions. We can offer you an induction programme, clinical and management Supervision, Appraisal, regular Later Life CPD sessions, and on-going training appropriate to your development needs. You will have the opportunity to engage in quality improvement initiatives. You will have the opportunity to supervise unregistered colleagues and to support the development of Students nurses on placement.

You will be based at Kingwood Civic Centre, which is the central hub for the AWP South Glos. locality, with the majority of the mental health teams sharing the same office space, allowing for a positive, supportive culture and enabling joint working across Later Life and Adults of Working Age teams.

Main duties of the job

You will need excellent communication skills and be flexible and resourceful in your approach. You will need to demonstrate your ability and commitment to team working and a genuine interest in achieving wellbeing and positive health outcomes for older adults.

Main duties of the role are -

Undertake quality comprehensive mental health and social care needs assessment, including risk assessment for service users.

Be responsible for a specific caseload of service users and acting as care co-ordinator.

Establish with the service user and carer (where appropriate) an agreed care plan, which includes evidence based interventions to address assessed needs, how outcomes will be measured and agreed timescale for input. To arrange such services as are appropriate to the care plan using the care management process.

Regularly evaluate the care plan with the service user and alter as required.

Use the principles and processes with the agreed CPA policy and to act as care coordinator when appropriate.

Undertake specialist assessments, eg Continuing Health Care and Cognitive testing as required.

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B& NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Undertake quality comprehensive mental health and social care needs assessment, including risk assessment for service users.

Be responsible for a specific caseload of service users and acting as care co-ordinator.

Establish with the service user and carer (where appropriate) an agreed care plan, which includes evidence based interventions to address assessed needs, how outcomes will be measured and agreed timescale for input. To arrange such services as are appropriate to the care plan using the care management process.

Regularly evaluate the care plan with the service user and alter as required.

Use the principles and processes with the agreed CPA policy and to act as care coordinator when appropriate.

Undertake specialist assessments, eg Continuing Health Care and Cognitive testing as required.

Record Keeping & Administration

Keep contemporaneous, chronological and accurate mental health records in accordance with Trust policy, professional guidelines and local team procedures.

Collect and input information and appropriate statistics for providing overall information about clinical activity.

Use time effectively and make appropriate use of resources.

Attend business meetings and participate in clinical discussion, presenting complex cases when appropriate.

Clinical Liaison

Provide effective communication both within AWP and with Primary Care, Social Services and a range of other voluntary and statutory organisations.

Sensitively and appropriately communicate with colleagues, service users, carers and relatives.

Operate within the Multi Agency Policy on Safeguarding Adults and participate in the investigation process as appropriate.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Experience of working at band 5
• Commitment to working with adults in later life
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable

• Experience of working in the community

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Kingswood Civic Centre

High Stree

Kingswood

BS15 9TR

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