Care Co-ordinator - Homeless Mental Health

Job Summary
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.

Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Care Coordinator (Nurse/ Social worker or Occupational Therapist) to join our service in Lambeth. 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.

About us
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. 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

Job Responsibilities
Your role will be to undertake assessments and 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

• NMC registered Community psychiatric nurse or HCPC Registered Occupational Therapist/Social Worker

Experience
Essential

• oAt least 1 years' experience working in a mental health or homelessness setting

Knowledge
Essential

• 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 Abilities
Essential

• Ability to use information technology systems to input and access data, use word processing systems and Email
• oAbility to communicate effectively verbally and in writing

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).