Case Manager Integrated Care / Children in Care (CiC)

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Clinical Case Manager for Children in Care in the West Midlands CAMHS Provider Collaborative. The role involves expert clinical advice, management of complex cases in residential care homes, and advocacy within a multi-agency network.

You will work within Toucan's Integrated Complex Care / CiC team to redefine health and social care support for vulnerable young people.

Qualifications

• Provide expert clinical advice and case management for children and young people in residential care homes.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive case discussions, triage referrals, and unlock access to innovative services like Integrated Residential Outreach Care (IROC).
• Work collaboratively with Local Authority social care teams to ensure therapeutic needs are identified and met.
• Support the Regional Hub and Local Authorities to influence quality and performance standards for residential care providers, ensuring every placement is safe and clinically sound.
• Navigate high-pressure situations with confidence, compassion, and clinical expertise.

Skills

Clinical case management

Autonomy

Team collaboration

Triage referrals

Advocacy

Job description

• Provide expert clinical advice and case management for children and young people in residential care homes commissioned by West Midlands Local Authorities.
• Manage complex, cases with autonomy and professionalism, offering guidance and support to the wider network around the child.
• Champion needs of Children and Young People in residential placements across the West Midlands.
• Work collaboratively with Local Authority social care teams, to ensure therapeutic needs are identified and met.
• Lead proactive case discussions, triage referrals, and unlock access to innovative services like Integrated Residential Outreach Care (IROC).
• Support the Regional Hub and Local Authorities to influence quality and performance standards for residential care providers, ensuring every placement is safe, supportive, and clinically sound.
• Navigate high-pressure situations with confidence, compassion, and clinical expertise -- making decisions that change lives.
• Travel across the West Midlands region is required as part of this role. We are looking to recruit three skilled professionals (RMN, RNLD or Social Worker) who are ready to advocate and bring fresh thinking to integrated care.

If you want to be part of something that truly matters, we would love to hear from you.

Are you ready to be part of something transformative, this role helps reshape the future of children and young people with complex mental health needs.

As a Clinical Case Manager for Children in Care within the West Midlands CAMHS Provider Collaborative (WMCPC), you will be at the forefront of a system evolving to meet the urgent needs of children who live in residential care homes. Working within Toucan's Integrated Complex Care / Children in Care (CiC) team, you will be part of a multi-agency collaborative redefining how health and social care support the region's vulnerable young people. Working in a small, specialist team driving meaningful change. You will be empowered to innovate, influence, and deliver work that improves lives of children, young peoples, and their families for the future., Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centered care. Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.