Care Coordinator Registered Mental Health Nurse
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Folkestone, CT20 1JYView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
22 October 2026
2 days leftJob description
We're offering an exciting opportunity to work with the East Kent Early Intervention in Psychosis Mental Health service (EIP) as a Band 6 Registered M...
- Care Coordinators have caseloads sizes that allow for innovative and focused interventions in partnership with service users, families and support networks, promoting recovery, social inclusion and well-being in line with NICE guidelines.
- The Access and Waiting Time standards ensure that individuals are offered NICE concordant Interventions early in their treatment.Our service aims to work alongside individuals and their families by adopting strength and recovery-based approaches which maximise hope, self-determination, and empowerment. The service offers individual and family work, as well as various group work activities which includes linking in with organisations and resources with an increasing emphasis on collaborative working.
- To work collaboratively with service users and their support network to identify goals to determine and deliver an appropriate intervention/recovery plan which maximises engagement and performance while balancing risk, and promoting choice and independence.
- To actively participate in a East Kent EIP wide duty function and assessment on a rota system. The successful candidate will be required to undertake the duty function at the EIP base in Canterbury and be required to facilitate assessments throughout East Kent.
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway.
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.
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Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential: - Registered Mental Nurse/Diploma in Nursing (Mental Health),; - Hold appropriate Practice Assessor/Educator Qualification
Desirable: - Evidence of continuing professional development; - Training or experince in facilitating/co facilitating in Family intervention work
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
- Experience of working with service users with psychosis when acutely unwell.
- Experience and skills in clinical assessment.
- Experience and skills in risk assessment, formulation and management.
- Experience of working with service users with psychosis and their support network
Desirable
- Experience of the use of evidence-based interventions relating to the care of service users with first episode of psychosis.
- Experience of working with service users experiencing psychosis within a community setting.
- Experience of working with service users aged 14- 65 years.
- Experience of working with neurodiversity.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Excellent understanding of psychosis, interventions and evidence-based practices.
- EIP access and waiting time standards.
- NICE guidelines for psychosis and schizophrenia.
- Safeguarding vulnerable adults and children and young people.
Desirable: - The Care Programme Approach.; - Working knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983
Other
Essential: - To work Monday's as part of the working week.
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
8 October 2026
Last checked
8 October 2026
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