Band 6 Assessor and Coordinator

Contract: 12 months (Fixed term)

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9-5 monday to friday with some potential for covering groups or visits for SU who work.)

Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 Per annum (Pay award pending)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 assessor/care coordinator in the Bristol Early Intervention for Psychosis Service.

The Early Intervention for Psychosis Service will provide help and support to young people over 14 years and under 35 years of age for 3 years following a first episode psychosis or for a limited period where there may be a possible psychosis.

The team is multidisciplinary, consisting of Peer Support Worker, Physical Health Worker, Mental Health Support Workers, Individual Placement Support Workers, Care coordinators with Occupational Therapy, Nursing or Social work registrations, Administrators, Consultant Psychiatrist, Team Manager, Senior Practitioners, Non Medical Prescribers, Psychologists, Cognitive Behaviour Therapists in Psychosis and many of the team are trained in Family Intervention for Psychosis.

The team provides care coordination to individuals presenting with signs of a first episode of psychosis in line with local and national guidelines on Early Intervention, namely the Access and Waiting Time Standards for Early Intervention Services. 

The successful candidate with be able to bring relevant skills and experience to the role, and also be able to develop further due to the opportunities for in house learning and a wide range of supervisions that the team offer. 

Main duties of the job

• The successful candidate needs to have a current registration with NMC, Social Care England or HCPC. 
• The role includes Care Coordination to provide support to our Service Users and their friends and families. Linking in with the MDT, ensuring support, treatment and interventions are offered within good time, and build relationships with the teams and organisations the EI service works closely with, E.G, Crisis teams, Partnership organisations, Hospital inpatient units etc. In addition there will be opportunities to co-facilitate the service’s wellbeing, social and therapy groups.
• In addition the successful candidate will take part and lead on the assessments of people referred to our service using the Comprehensive Assessment of an At Risk Mental State, an assessment tool widely used in Early Intervention Teams in the UK.
• The Early Intervention Service is part of the Bristol Mental Health Partnership which includes the organisations of Second Step, Off The Record, Missing Link, SARI and Richmond Fellowship in addition to Rethink Mental Health. 
• BMH is part of Avon and Wiltshire Partnership NHS trust who are committed to the wellbeing and support of their staff and provide opportunities for career development and training.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. 

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Person specification

Essential and desirable.

Essential criteria

• Registration in Mental Health Nursing, Social work or Occupational therapy.
• Broad based post qualification mental health experience, including working with first episode psychosis
• Appropriate CPD post-qualification in psychosocial interventions.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of care coordination
• Trained in cbt or/and family interventions for psychosis
• Trained in the comprehensive assessment of an at risk mental state. (CAARMS)