Key worker/care coordinator job at London Full Time NEW

To provide effective care and specialist advice for people with psychosis and complex mental health needs and their carers, in order to support their well-being and recovery. This includes depot administration and regular monitoring of mental state.

To liaise with other agencies in planning and assessing programmes of care

Provide formal, on-going clinical supervision and caseload management supervision to junior and less experienced community mental health staff, as directed.

To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the manager when required.

To complete full mental health assessments and complete Dialog+ as part of KPIs.

To produce holistic risk assessments

To regularly liaise with MDT and patients, including home visits, to ensure safety and wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

We have a duty of care towards our patients. We place them at the centre of the everything we do to ensure their safety and well-being. We treat with compassion, dignity and respect, embedding our trust values in everything we do. On a day to day basis, we take part in regular MDT meetings and morning safety huddles. We also promote clear communication with GPs, families and carers as well as local authority. We work together as a team, building a safe environment, where colleagues are respected and encouraged to take on an active role in MDT meetings.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our values:
We Are Kind

We Are Respectful

We Work Together

We Keep Things Simple

We Empower

We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

To provide holistic care for service users with severe and enduring mental health problems as per Dialog plus/ care needs.

To support service users on their recovery pathway

Work collaboratively with our partners carers. relatives. and other social inclusion

Identify risk and manage risk appropriately in the best interest of the service users and others.

To discuss cases at the MDT for professional input and support

To signpost service users to appropriate services as part of recovery pathways