Job Title: Care Coordinator
Agency: LEO Community Team, 190 Kennington Lane, London, SE11 5DL
Location: United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: £47951 – £56863 / year

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Job Description

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Summary of Job

About the position:

We are looking for the right person to join us as a Care Coordinator, and this is an excellent opportunity for a passionate and energetic person. The role is open for Nurses, OTs, and Social workers.

The position holder will carry out assessments of newly referred persons to the Early Intervention Service who are exhibiting First Episode Psychosis (FEP). They will perform the role of Care Co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach for a specified caseload of service users and their carers. They will provide evidence-based psychosocial therapies with an emphasis on engagement, recovery, and social inclusion, as well as tackling physical health care needs.

The successful candidates will be experienced registered professionals who can demonstrate a specific interest in working with patients with developing psychosis and will have completed a preceptorship or proof of band 6 abilities.

This is an exciting time to be working in this industry, which is growing and developing rapidly. We can provide great support and training possibilities.

Key Job Responsibilities

1) Assessment

• To be responsible for the assessment of newly referred people with First Episode Psychosis and the subsequent presentation of findings to the entire team.
• To work with diagnostic ambiguity in providing continuous, comprehensive assessments and result monitoring for all service users within caseload.
• To do periodical risk assessments with any other health professionals/agencies involved.
• Ensure risk assessments are reviewed often, are meaningful, and are reflected in care plans.

2) Engagement

• Take the initiative to engage even the hard-to-reach clients.
• To meet regularly with service users at a venue of their choice as far as possible, be this at home, CMHT centre, education, work or recreational establishments, to assist with engagement and encourage participation in treatment delivery as well as facilitating independence in all aspects of daily living.

3) Support

• To offer continuing care coordination for a specific caseload of service users who will be having their first episode of psychosis.
• To offer support and advice in relation to service users with reference to the issues affecting them.
• Work together with service users, focusing on a recovery strategy.
• Give information so clients can make informed choices.

Specification of the Person

Qualifications

Key

• Appropriate professional qualification. e.g., RMN, CQSW or equivalent
• Current Registration.
• Evidence of continued professional development, e.g., relevant courses.

Prefered

• Meridan/FI training or similar

Experience

Key

• Extensive experience in working with service users with psychosis at an acute phase of illness.
• Demonstrated experience and skills in risk assessment and management.
• Extensive experience and talents in clinical assessment.
• Experience of dealing with service users with psychosis and their carers.
• Experience of working in conjunction with statutory and voluntary services.

Looking for

• Experience of the utilisation of evidence-based interventions in relation to the management of service users with first episode psychosis.
• Experience of working with service users experiencing psychosis in a community environment.
• Experience with family interventions.
• Experience with care coordination/CPA.

Talents

Necessity

• Crisis management knowledge and experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities.
• IT/data entry skills.
• Ability to engage service users and carers in care planning.
• Providing psycho education to service users and their carers about psychosis.

Preferred

• Care co-ordination / CPA skills.
• CBT/FI Competencies.
• The implementation of evidence-based treatments in the care of service users with first episode psychosis – experience.

Information

Essential

• Understanding of the Recovery Approach and its use in practice.
• Understanding of the Early Intervention in Psychosis Approach.
• Knowledge of CPA, Community Care Act, the Carers Act, the Mental Health Act and other applicable legislation in relation to practice.
• Understanding of the function of a Care Co-ordinator.

Looking for

• Knowledge of current Government Policy and Guidelines in relation to the provision of community mental health care and of EI in psychosis in particular.

DBS Check (Disclosure and Barring Service)

This role is exempt under 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 (previously known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sponsorship Certificate

Applications from job seekers needing present Sponsorship for skilled workers to work in the UK is welcomed and will be reviewed together with all other applications. See the UK Visas and Immigration website for more information.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants requesting for entrance clearance to the UK have been required to produce a criminal record certificate from any country in which they have lived continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the last 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) also must meet this condition. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for foreign applicants.

Deadline

21 June 2026

Why Apply for This Care Coordinator Role?

 NHS Sponsorship Available

 Open to Nurses, OTs and Social Workers

Early Intervention in Psychosis Team

 Career Development and Training Opportunities

 Evidence-Based Clinical Practice

 Supportive Multidisciplinary Environment

 Competitive NHS Career Pathway

 Opportunity to Make a Real Difference in Mental Health Care

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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