Job summary
- Main area
- Medway and Swale- EIP (Early Intervention Service
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Has to work Mon to Friday)
- Job ref
- 380-NK262
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- EIPS Medway and Swale, Britton House
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum (inclusive of high-cost area supplement)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Care Nurse Co-ordinator
Band 6
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
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Job overview
We're offering an exciting opportunity to work with the Medway and Swale Early Intervention in Psychosis Mental Health service (EIP) as a Band 6 clinician covering Medway and Swale area
The role includes:
To manage a caseload of service users experiencing a first episode of psychosis using evidence-based / client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
To work collaboratively with service users, staff, and their support network to identify goals to determine and deliver appropriate interventions/recovery plan which maximises engagement and performance whilst balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
Good knowledge around medication Management
To provide a professional contribution to a multi-disciplinary team to support the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality mental health services which meet existing new policies, practice and standards.
Work with other professions within the service including: STR workers, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Pharmacist, Medics, Psychology and Individual Placement Support to ensure the service user is offered a range of support which meets the individuals and families needs.
To work Friday's as part of the working week.
Main duties of the job
- Care Coordinators have caseloads sizes that allow for innovative and focused interventions in partnership with service users, families and support networks, promoting recovery, social inclusion and well-being in line with NICE guidelines
- The Access and Waiting Time standards ensure that individuals are offered NICE concordant Interventions early in their treatment. Our service aims to work alongside individuals and their families by adopting strength and recovery-based approaches which maximise hope, self-determination, and empowerment. The service offers individual and family work, as well as various group work activities which includes linking in with organisations and resources with an increasing emphasis on collaborative working.
- To work collaboratively with service users and their support network to identify goals to determine and deliver an appropriate intervention/recovery plan which maximises engagement and performance while balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
- To actively participate in North & West Kent EIP wide duty function. The successful candidate will be required to undertake the duty function at the EIP base in Gillingham and be required to facilitate assessments throughout the Medway and Swale area.
- To administer depot medication to service users as required
- To attend CPAs and tribunals.
- Good knowledge of CTOs.
Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Your role within the team will be varied, allowing plenty of opportunity to both demonstrate and develop your skills as well as offering a dynamic working life. As a Care co-ordinator, you will be a registered nurse and have a caseload of clients, which would involve monitoring and assessment of risk and co-ordinating treatment plans, as well as administering depot medication as required.
- To monitor, evaluate and modify therapeutic interventions in order to measure progress and increase efficacy for the best possible service user outcomes and experience.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Please see the attached job description and person specification for details of the responsibilities of this role.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Nurse/Diploma in Nursing (Mental Health)
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Hold appropriate practice assessor/mentor qualification
- Training or experience in facilitating/co facilitating in Family intervention work
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
- Experience of working with service users with psychosis when acutely unwell
- Experience and skills in clinical assessment
- Experience and skills in risk assessment, formulation and management
- Experience of working with service users with psychosis and their support network
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the use of evidence-based interventions relating to the care of service users with first episode of psychosis
- Experience of working with service users experiencing psychosis within a community setting.
- Experience of working with service users aged 14- 65 years.
- Experience of working with neurodiversity.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent understanding of psychosis, interventions and evidence-based practices.
- EIP access and waiting time standards.
- NICE guidelines for psychosis and schizophrenia.
- Safeguarding vulnerable adults and children and young people.
Desirable criteria
- The Care Programme Approach.
- Working knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Terry Hayden
- Job title
- Operational Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 303 3189
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