PIER Team Senior Care Coordinator

Overview

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment. We have an excellent opportunity for Senior Care Coordinator to join the PIER team within the directorate of Adult Mental Health. The PIER (Psychosis Intervention Early Recovery) team serves Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland for ages 14 - 65, supporting individuals experiencing their first episode of psychosis.

The team provides intensive support to service users and their families/careers for up to 3 years.

The Senior Care Coordinator will hold a caseload typically between 15 and 20 service users and work closely with other disciplines within the team (Medical, Psychological Therapies, Psychology, Support staff, admin and other care coordinators). The PIER team also links with other NHS services, statutory services and the voluntary sector.

We prioritise the health and wellbeing of our team members and offer a robust induction period, regular supervision and support, and opportunities to progress through a structured learning journey to achieve long-term goals and work to individual strengths.

• The successful candidate will work autonomously, taking responsibility for care, quality, and clinical activity for a designated caseload of service users.
• Contribute to care quality, performance and clinical activity by providing professional leadership and guidance, clinical advice, and management in relation to the key dimensions of health care quality: patient safety, effectiveness of all health care interventions, patient experience, and the environment in which care is delivered. Participate in the effective clinical leadership of the team.
• Actively contribute to the improvement of service and quality of care provision to meet the needs of service users and their families; act as a role model and participate in the education, development and mentorship of other staff.
• Collaborate with other clinicians and within wider health, social care and voluntary sector communities as appropriate; promote the role of the Mental Health Practitioner to all stakeholders.
• Foster a culture of networking in an open and transparent approach with internal and external partnerships and between all stakeholders.
• Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of evidence-based care for a group of service users according to changing healthcare needs and varying levels of complexity.

• A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days, increasing to 29 days after 5 years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service
• Free onsite parking
• Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages to support work-life balance
• Health and Wellbeing Support
• Various Staff Support Networks

For an informal chat, please contact Dave Hunt, Team Manager on or email

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants; please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual.

This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.