Job summary
- Main area
- Psychosis
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Two fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-NUR-7529244-SA
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 190 Kennington Lane, SE11 5DL
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 per annum incl. of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/11/2025 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
About the team:
The START Team work across Lambeth, Southwark, Croydon and Lewisham 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. We are starting a new service in Lewisham, site to be confirmed. These posts are fixed term contracts for 12 m in Lewisham.
Main duties of the job
About the role:
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Care Coordinator (Nurse/ Social worker or Occupational Therapist) to join our services in Southwark and also to our new team in Lewisham.
You will be based within a multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Team and will hold an allocated caseload of service users with mental illness, substance use and complex social care needs.
This is a rare opportunity to come and experience working 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.
Working for our organisation
Benefits:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
- Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
- Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
- Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
- Counselling services
- Wellbeing events
- Long service awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Childcare vouchers
- Staff restaurants
We look forward to receiving your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registered Community psychiatric nurse or HCPC Registered Occupational Therapist/Social Worker
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).
- 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
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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