Locum Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join their Community Rehabilitation Team.
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm
Key Task and Responsibilities
Care Coordinators working with people with psychosis should ensure they are competent in:
• Engagement
• Working with a biopsychosocial formulation
• Assessment skills
• Using explanatory models of illness
• Explaining the causes of psychosis
• Explaining treatment options
• Negotiating skills
• Skills for working with families of people with psychosis
• Conflict management and conflict resolution.
A manual of self-management programme should be developed and delivered face-to-face with service users, as part of the treatment and management of psychosis. Self-management programmes should include:
•Information and advice about psychosis
•Effective use of medication
•Identifying and managing symptoms
•Accessing mental health and other support services
•Coping with stress and other problems
•What to do in a crisis
•Building a social support network
•Preventing relapse and setting personal recovery goals.
EIP Care Coordinators should be skilled in working with recovery-based approaches to care planning. They should be able to work flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their individual goals, supporting them across a range of health and social care needs, including housing, benefits and debt advice.
Care coordinators will also deliver family intervention when trained and supervised in delivery.
Care Coordinators working with people with psychosis from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds should ensure they are competent in addressing cultural and ethnic differences in beliefs regarding biological, social and family influences on the causes of unusual mental states, treatment expectations and adherence.
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity and would like to find out more, please call 01322 282470. Alternatively, you can reach the recruitment team via e-mail at recruitment@westmeriarecruitment.co.uk
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