Community Mental Health Nurse / Social Worker

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Community Mental Health Nurse/Social Worker Band 6 to work within the Newham Early Intervention Service (NEIS).

We are looking to recruit someone who is highly motivated, enthusiastic and passionate about applying Biopsychosocial intervention/recovery model within Community setting. This post would be suitable for someone with a strong interest in Psychosis and Early Intervention.

Newham Early Intervention is a psychosis service for adults aged 18 - 65 years old, from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, experiencing first onset of psychosis.

Early intervention for psychosis services aim to reduce the prevalence and impact of psychosis by reducing the duration of untreated psychosis and engaging clients in training and work as well as offering support and psychological interventions.

Newham Early Intervention Service provides an integrated service to those individuals and their families/carers suffering from the consequences of mental illness, enabling them to live a fulfilled life as possible within the community and promotes recovery.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of innovative service and to use your skills and experience to work in new and challenging ways., Be a member of the Early Intervention service being responsible for the delivery of services to people who are residents of Newham with a recent onset of psychosis as defined by the service referral criteria..

Be involved in training/ health promotion of early onset psychosis as required. Interface effectively with community organisations.

o Contribute to the delivery of service to people with recent onset of psychosis.

o Provide specialist assessment and psychosocial/psychotherapeutic skills, together with the provision of wide-ranging practical support.

o Provide assessments within health (CPA) and social care (care management) frameworks.

o Participate in the setting up and running of service user and carer groups, which promote confidence building, meaningful occupation and recovery.

o Provide support to service users in line with a 'whole team approach', as recommended in Early Intervention in Psychosis best practice literature.

o Provide a service, which promotes recovery, identifies people's needs and strengths, is user centred and holistic, and promotes safety and positive risk taking.

o Ensure the service provided is of the best quality and of a standard of professional practice and performance to meet the needs of Newham's diverse community. Provide a service, which is of the highest standard in terms of fair access, equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.