Early Intervention Psychosis Care Coordinator PATH Service
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust · Healthcare Assistant · viaNHS Jobs
£41,957–£50,387 a year
- Closing date
- 20 Nov 2026
- Posted
- 1d ago
- Specialism
- Healthcare Assistant
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Reference
- nhs-5726553
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Job summary
Join Our Early Intervention in Psychosis Team - Make a Difference from Day One
Are you a qualifiedSocial Worker, Occupational Therapist, or Mental Health Nurse with a passion for mental health care? We're looking for compassionate professionals to join our Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Service - PATH (Psychosis: Prevention, Assessment and Treatment in Hertfordshire).
Based in Watford, covering aspecified area in West Hertfordshire, this is a rewarding opportunity to support people experiencing psychosis for the first time, delivering personalised and recovery-focused care.
You'll hold a caseload and work closely with the wider MDT, helping you build strong relationships and develop your leadership and delegation skills.
We welcome applications for part-time, and are committed to flexible working that supports work-life balance.
What we offer:
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A values-driven, innovative EIP service
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Collaborative multi-disciplinary team working
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Flexible working options
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Training in Family Interventions
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Opportunities to grow your leadership and clinical skills
To find out more about our team, visit:? PATH & ARMS Team
For an informal chat or to arrange a visit, please contact Eleanor Atkins on Eleanor.Atkins1@nhs.netWe look forward to hearing from you!
Main duties of the job
You will be:
- an active member of a skilled multi-disciplinary team
- working together with your colleagues to provide our PATH service in our Watford Team
- cover a designated locality - not the whole county
- travelling less and work out in the community, both in people's homes and our local hub buildings
- training as a family intervention therapist
You will be passionate in the delivery of recovery based and collaborative approaches to care planning, working flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their individual goals.
Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like to work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can?
Details
Date posted
13 November 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£41,957 to £50,387 a year per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
367-ACMS-101787
Job locations
99 Waverley Road, St Albans, AL3 5TL, caseload locality St Albans
99 Waverley Road
St Albans
AL3 5TL
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary Community Team, will be responsible for the clinical and operational day to day service delivery, providing a high quality health & social care service to adults of all ages having First Episode Psychosis (FEP). The core functions are to provide assessment, care planning and care co- ordination, including care programme approach, within a framework of recovery which embraces each individuals right to choice and control.
You may be responsible for supervision, development and teaching of junior staff and/or students as delegated by the team manager.
Come and find out more about what we do and consider joining our team. Wed love you to come and work with us!
Heres what our staff say about working in the team:
"I love my job, I see service users over their journey from when they first become unwell to being able to re-start living a rewarding life"
"It's a specialist team, lots of opportunities for career development, it's a very supportive team and we work together as a mini team to look after a case load."
Heres what well offer you in terms of learning and development:
- Youll be offered a structured 12 week induction programme, giving you access to FEP specific learning and development opportunities to give you the confidence and skills to start delivering the FEP pathway to our service users
- Your development is our focus and we will offer a range of ways for you to further your career. Youll have access to personal coaching, to help you achieve your goals, coupled with 100 day conversations and a high quality supervision and appraisal programme.
- Youll want to be a leader and will be encouraged to develop your leadership skills through our offer of bespoke leadership training, high quality profession specific support and opportunities to learn the most effective supervision and personal coaching approaches.
- Youll be an important part of an innovative, creative and developing service. We are committed to a future where we use continuous quality improvement to harness your ideas for service development and make them a reality
- Youll work with a team who have highly specialist knowledge, experience and skills around FEP, where you will have access to a comprehensive internal training package to develop these skills in your first year too
- Delivering the FEP Pathway is a chance to change service users lives, teaching them the skills to self-manage their illness and encouraging self-reliance and independence, as well as helping them rebuild their lives
- Youll be working with people who come with a variety of needs, at various stages of their illness and recovery
- HPFT offers a wide variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts, a lease car scheme AND Excellent pension provision with up to 42 days leave per year
Car driver essential as the role is community based, the post holder will need a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes including business insurance (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
For a More in-depth Person and Job Description please read attached before applying
Job responsibilities
You will work as a member of the multi-disciplinary Community Team, will be responsible for the clinical and operational day to day service delivery, providing a high quality health & social care service to adults of all ages having First Episode Psychosis (FEP). The core functions are to provide assessment, care planning and care co- ordination, including care programme approach, within a framework of recovery which embraces each individuals right to choice and control.
You may be responsible for supervision, development and teaching of junior staff and/or students as delegated by the team manager.
Come and find out more about what we do and consider joining our team. Wed love you to come and work with us!
Heres what our staff say about working in the team:
"I love my job, I see service users over their journey from when they first become unwell to being able to re-start living a rewarding life"
"It's a specialist team, lots of opportunities for career development, it's a very supportive team and we work together as a mini team to look after a case load."
Heres what well offer you in terms of learning and development:
- Youll be offered a structured 12 week induction programme, giving you access to FEP specific learning and development opportunities to give you the confidence and skills to start delivering the FEP pathway to our service users
- Your development is our focus and we will offer a range of ways for you to further your career. Youll have access to personal coaching, to help you achieve your goals, coupled with 100 day conversations and a high quality supervision and appraisal programme.
- Youll want to be a leader and will be encouraged to develop your leadership skills through our offer of bespoke leadership training, high quality profession specific support and opportunities to learn the most effective supervision and personal coaching approaches.
- Youll be an important part of an innovative, creative and developing service. We are committed to a future where we use continuous quality improvement to harness your ideas for service development and make them a reality
- Youll work with a team who have highly specialist knowledge, experience and skills around FEP, where you will have access to a comprehensive internal training package to develop these skills in your first year too
- Delivering the FEP Pathway is a chance to change service users lives, teaching them the skills to self-manage their illness and encouraging self-reliance and independence, as well as helping them rebuild their lives
- Youll be working with people who come with a variety of needs, at various stages of their illness and recovery
- HPFT offers a wide variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts, a lease car scheme AND Excellent pension provision with up to 42 days leave per year
Car driver essential as the role is community based, the post holder will need a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes including business insurance (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
For a More in-depth Person and Job Description please read attached before applying
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