IDT Senior social worker

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated IDT Senior Social Worker to enhance patient discharge processes. This role focuses on maximizing independence and ensuring smooth transitions from hospital to home. The successful candidate will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders, utilizing their expertise in mental health legislation and social work practices. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care within a supportive environment. If you are passionate about empowering individuals and improving healthcare outcomes, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Must have a Social Work Qualification and current registration.
• Experience in mental health social care and multi-agency working is essential.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate discharge planning and attend CRFD meetings.
• Manage a caseload of inpatients and address barriers to discharge.

Skills

Mental Health Social Care Delivery

Legal Literacy

Strengths Based Social Work Practice

Communication Skills

Multi-Agency Working

Education

Social Work Qualification

Current Social Work England Registration

Tools

SystmOne

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Job Overview

The post holder will work in a targeted way to achieve the best pathway out of hospital, maximizing independence and choice for the individual and working in a solution focused way to ensure that once ready, there are no barriers in place to an effective discharge.

Job Overview

The post holder will work in a targeted way to achieve the best pathway out of hospital, maximizing independence and choice for the individual and working in a solution focused way to ensure that once ready, there are no barriers in place to an effective discharge.

The post holder will work with individuals identified through their attendance and participation at daily whiteboard meetings and weekly Bed Management and Clinically Ready For Discharge (CRFD) meetings. This will provide them with a complete picture of the acute care pathway and barriers to patient flow.

The post holder must be adept at prioritizing the activities that will most rapidly lead to effective discharge and have strong legal literacy to ensure that there are no legal barriers to discharge. This includes expert knowledge of housing legislation, Care Act 2014, No Recourse to Public Funds, Mental Health Act (s117) and the Mental Capacity Act including Court of Protection.

The post holder will sit organizationally within the Inpatient Services and be present on the inpatient wards within a defined geographical area working with an identified caseload to enable effective discharge planning. This post is for Park Royal Centre for mental health, it’s a 9-5 post Monday –Friday and due to the nature of the role it is a fact to face job.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will coordinate the CRFD list for the Borough and attend the weekly CRFD meeting as a matter of routine to update on progress and highlight any potential blocks that they have been unable to resolve.

Using strengths based social work practice to manage a specific caseload of individuals who are inpatients and patients on HTT caseload and have potential barriers to discharge identified early on, in their inpatient stay or admission to HTT. Pre-empt and resolve arising barriers to discharge and length of stay.

Ensure that patient care is provided in the most appropriate care setting to ensure effective and efficient treatment and that there is a clear and robust discharge plan. This will involve attendance on wards for specific discussions including White Board meetings, and s117 discharge planning meetings.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Working for our organisation

OUR VALUES:

Compassion: Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.

Respect: We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognizes the uniqueness of each individual.

Empowerment: We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, careers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles. We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.

Partnership: We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see above for detailed job description and main responsibilities. Attend the weekly bed management meetings and take an active role in challenging delays in discharge.

• Develop positive working relationships with key stakeholders, including local commissioners ( health & local authority)
• To develop effective relationships with housing providers, tenancy support teams and benefit agencies specific to the Borough.
• Verification of purpose of admission and expected length of stay for all new admissions to the hospital. Ensure ward staff have identified an Expected Date of Discharge (EDD) and identify likely pathway out of hospital early during their inpatient stay.
• Ensure that tenancies are maintained whilst in hospital and that independence is maximised on discharge.
• Where necessary, to take a lead in commencing discharge planning until such stage as community care coordinator is appointed
• To provide robust assessment of need and risk assessment with due regard to the principles of personalization, balancing risk, choice and control to produce a care plan, which demonstrates consideration of the least restrictive option.
• Work to facilitate / broker positive risk taking over cases between the ward and HTT. Pre-empt, accelerate homelessness unit input / liaison.
• Investigate cases that are about to pass / have passed projected milestone/ discharge dates in the acute care pathway i.e., discharge review, discharge plan in place, discharge date.
• Work with communities and employers to ensure the individual maintains links with their community supports whilst an inpatient.
• Develop positive working relationships with the local housing teams and placements panel and have an excellent understanding of the paperwork required to present to panel for funding.
• Support care coordinators with complex cases that require continuing care funding or where there is a complex family situation preventing safe discharge, including liaison with Children’s Services when necessary, where there are children involved.
• Ensure early liaison with the community teams of pending discharges to HTT or direct to community.
  
  

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Social Work Qualification
• Current Social work England Registration.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Professional Expertise
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Professional supervision qualification
• AMHP/BIA qualification
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Mental health social care delivery in a multi-disciplinary statutory setting.
• Working with people presenting in mental health crisis and their families/carers
• Multi-agency working/working across service interfaces
• Experience of applying legislation in practice including Care Act, MCA and s117
• Experience of using strengths based approaches to support individuals to maximise independence and achieve their goals
• Experience of presenting cases to funding panels.
• Experience of working with housing and specialist services
• Experience of working to deadlines
• Experience of safeguarding adults at risk and children
  
  

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Able to meet the service needs for mobility across the geographical area covered.
• Able to recognise and respect the values of diverse perspectives
• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
• Demonstrate the ability to liaise effectively with other agencies, both statutory and non statutory
• Able to build and maintain relationships with a diverse group of colleagues, service users and partners to increase understanding
• Demonstrates the ability to empower the team to create solutions
• Ability to prioritise workload and ensure all documentation is current and up-to-date.
  
  

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential criteria

• Evidenced based strengths based social work interventions relevant to the service
• Knowledge of key issues relating to developments in adult mental health services at a local and national level
• Knowledge and understanding of funding panel processes
• Possess extensive knowledge of the mental health legislative framework for health and social care
• Expert knowledge of: Mental Health Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act including Court of Protection and Homelessness Reduction Act and Housing legislation
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Use of SystmOne
  
  

Other

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable approach to person-centred care delivery
• Values others involved in a patients care, including carers, families, referrers and other teams/colleagues
• Able to act to pre-empt or stop discrimination and social exclusion
• Motivated, reliable and committed to team working.
• Recognise people’s right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
• Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working
• Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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