Job summary
- Main area
- Psychosis
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7272758
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 190 Kennington Lane, SE11 5DL
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £42,471 - £50,364 per annum incl. of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Care Co-ordinator - Homeless Mental Health
Band 6
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Care Coordinator (Nurse/ Social worker or Occupational Therapist) to join our service.
You will be based within a multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Team and will hold an allocated caseload of service users with mental illness and complex social care needs.
This is a rare opportunity to come and work with the START Team. We would like to meet candidates who have some experience and passion for working with this population.
You would be working in a highly-motivated community multi-disciplinary team. There will be opportunities and support for continuing professional development and to actively participate in quality innovations, research and audit.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be to undertake assessments, CPA Care Co-ordination whilst providing on-going risk /assessment, planning, co-ordination and evaluation of care. You will have expertise in crisis and risk management, together with good communication skills.
You will have a passion for working with excluded populations with multiple disadvantage using a relational model which prioritises engagement and pre-treatment. You will be skilled at working with and supporting our third sector colleagues.
Working for our organisation
About the team:
The START Team work across Lambeth and Southwark and Croydon with rough sleepers who are experiencing severe and enduring mental illness.
Many of our service users also present with other complex needs such as substance abuse, social exclusion and immigration issues.
About the location:
We are based at 190 Kennington Lane near Kennington and Vauxhall tube stations. We also have an office at Jeanette Wallace House in Central Croydon near the overground.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
Mental Health Practitioner role
- To assess, plan, monitor and evaluate care of a designated caseload of homeless service users who have complex care needs.
- To act as the Care Co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach.
- To ensure that the Trusts other statutory responsibilities and policies and procedures are carried out in relation to individuals, their families and carers.
- To use assertive outreach skills to engage people who are hard to reach
- To ensure that the Trusts other statutory responsibilities and policies and procedures
are carried out in relation to individuals, their families and carers. - To use assertive outreach skills to engage people who are hard to reach
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • At least 1 years’ experience working in a mental health or homelessness setting
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the principles of equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice in assessment and the provision of service
- Knowledge of the principles of assertive outreach and of the issues relating to homelessness
- Current and up to date knowledge of relevant legislation including working knowledge of the principles of CPA (Care Programme Approach, safeguarding, Mental Health and Care Acts). A & I
- Applied knowledge of the principles of risk assessment and risk management
Skills and ablities
Essential criteria
- • Ability to use information technology systems to input and access data, use word processing systems and Email
- • Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registered Community psychiatric nurse or HCPC Registered Occupational Therapist/Social Worker
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fran Busby
- Job title
- Clinical Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 228 5911
- Additional information
Fran Busby - 0203 228 5911
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