# 222-EAL-136

**Company**: West London NHS Trust
**Location**: Southall
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: £33262.00 to £36027.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9222-26-0943?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0fe8f40a-ded

## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for suitably experienced candidates who are wanting to work in our newly developed Ealing Intensive Outreach and Rehabilitation team with two arms one being Rehabilitation & the other Assertive Outreach.

The post holder will be working in a Specialist Outreach Psychosis Service within the Assertive Outreach Pathway, taking responsibility to assessing, planning and coordinating the care plan and treatment of a defined caseload of service users with complex needs related to psychotic illnesses who are difficult to engage.

The Specialist Outreach Psychosis Service is a multidisciplinary, community-based service responsible for providing on-going holistic assessments, treatment and support to clients with severe and enduring mental illness living in the community.

The service will provide an intensive community-based mental health service delivered in service users' home environments, in the community and in supported living accommodation or other locations agreed with the service user utilising "A whole system approach" to recovery from mental ill health.

The approach aims to maximise an individual's quality of life and address social inclusion by supporting engagement, encouraging their skills, promoting independence and autonomy to give them hope for the future which leads to successful community living through appropriate support.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Experience of working with complex mental health needs and clients that present as high risk is essential as well as strong skills in engaging people, being flexible in your approach, a sound knowledge of community resources, care planning and crisis management.

- Experience of community based and outreach working is also essential.

**Person Specification:**

- Qualifications: Demonstrable commitment to professional and personal commitment, Good level of computer skills with knowledge of Word and Excel and ability to input information, use an email system and produce simple plans/reports, GCSE of equivalent in verbal and written English and Maths.

- Experience: Awareness of psychosis, relapse, disengagement, risk, safeguarding and the impact of social factors such as housing, substances misuse and physical health, Experience of sustained previous employment, Experience of working or volunteering in mental health services, Experience of community-based outreach, assertive engagement, homelessness, substance misuse or other work with people who are difficult to engage.

- Knowledge: Knowledge of the local community resources for people with mental health needs, A good understanding of mental health issues, An understanding of how to develop therapeutic relationships and sustain these, A good awareness of different models of mental health, Thorough understanding of coproduction and recovery principles as well as strengths based practices.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary: £33,262 to £36,027 a year

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Band 4

- Permanent, full-time position

## Skills

### Required
- psychosis
- community-based outreach
- assertive engagement
- crisis management
- care planning
- mental health

### Nice to have
- NVQ level 3
- 1:1 client work with people with psychosis

---

Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9222-26-0943?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)