Case Manager - Home First

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Aylesbury; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Aylesbury seeks a motivated health or social care professional to join their Home First Team. You'll be responsible for managing patient discharges, ensuring safety and support for independence. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and knowledge of discharge pathways. The role offers flexible working arrangements, generous leave, and benefits from the NHS, emphasizing a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working opportunities

NHS discount schemes

Qualifications

• Must be a skilled health or social care professional.
• Able to interpret and relay patient information accurately.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide a multidisciplinary case management approach.
• Co-ordinate safe discharge home for patients.
• Work with patients to identify recovery goals.
• Collaborate with Home Care agencies.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Attention to detail

Knowledge of discharge processes

Experience in acute and community settings

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Home First Team in Buckinghamshire. The team is in the early stages of developing into a substantive service, providing team members with the opportunity to influence and contribute to growing and shaping the service. We are looking for a skilled and motivated health or social care professional to join the service, which supports patients who have recently been discharged from hospital to regain their independence and remain in their own homes.

The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and attention to detail. They will be able to accurately interpret and relay information relating to a patients health and social care needs, as part of a multi-disciplinary approach. Knowledge and experience of discharge processes and pathways is key to the role. Experience of working in both an acute and community setting would be an advantage. The successful candidate will be required to work both remotely, on site and visit patients at home or on the wards as required.

Responsibilities

• To provide a proactive, personalised and multidisciplinary case management approach to people who are being discharged from hospital.
• To co-ordinate a timely, safe and effective discharge home for people which supports their ongoing care and health needs being assessed at home.
• To work with patients and therapy staff to identify appropriate goals and ensure these are reviewed, revised and updated to best support a persons recovery using a strength-based approach.
• To pro-actively draw on personal expertise and the skills and knowledge of all team members to improve outcomes for people and their carers.
• To work in partnership with Home Care agencies to facilitate and support a reablement approach to care provision, ensuring proactive right sizing of packages.
• To proactively facilitate the person through their pathway in a way that enables timely discharge from Home First whilst ensuring the appropriate intervention reablement/rehabilitation takes place to minimise the need for long-term care.
• To identify gaps in the provision of care and changing needs through flexible and adaptable care planning, signposting, onward referral and supported interventions.
• To document the required information to support information sharing and monitoring of service key performance indicators.
• To follow the agreed case management pathway to ensure consistency of process.

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, youll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

Were committed to promoting inclusion and ensuring all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time. Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment; all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

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