Senior Case Manager (Children and Young People's MH LD)

NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Case Manager to work within the Personalised Care Department. This role focuses on supporting children and young people with complex disabilities through effective community care. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in mental health provisions, can work autonomously in a multidisciplinary team, and possesses strong communication skills. This position promotes integrated care and the prevention of hospital admissions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Mental Health Service Provision and the Mental Health Act 1983.
• Experience chairing meetings with clients and multi-agency professionals.
• Knowledge of safeguarding procedures.

Responsibilities

• Support community multi-disciplinary teams for discharging children and young people.
• Ensure CETRs are carried out effectively and admissions are prevented.
• Provide clinical case management and facilitate stakeholder collaboration.

Skills

Mental Health Service Provision

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Crisis Intervention

Education

Postgraduate degree in Healthcare

Diploma level education

Job description

Senior Case Manager (Children and Young People's MH LD)

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Personalised Care Department in Trafford Locality. We are looking for highly motivated and experienced RMNs, RGNs OR Allied Health Professionals who can work autonomously and collaboratively in a multi-agency environment with individuals and their representatives to support Commissioners to deliver robust support planning for children and young people with complex disabilities and their families who are at risk of admission by carrying out community Care and Education Treatment Reviews (CETRs) and promoting multi-agency working for individuals with the most complex needs. The ability to challenge where appropriate is essential in this role.

Main duties of the job

Enabling preventative and integrated approaches which support children and young people with LD and/or Autism and behaviour that challenges to remain in their local communities by ensuring CETRs are carried out on time and to a high standard and ensuring that admissions to residential or CAMHS inpatient units will be prevented through quality risk management processes.

Establish and maintain effective links and good communication with all stakeholders including Local Authorities, NHS England, specialist services, Care Provider organisations and specialist mental health and learning disability service providers (NHS and independent sector).

Support processes and mechanisms that will ensure that patients in specialist mental health/learning disability services receive high quality and clinically appropriate treatment in accordance with identified individual care pathways and in the least restrictive setting.

Support the commissioning of individual packages of care in the community and monitor assurance outcomes whilst working to ensure individuals are safe and packages of care meet their needs.

Provide clinical case management for existing and new transforming care patients, including but not limited to unscheduled participation in CTRs to facilitate crisis intervention.

Work collaboratively with stakeholders to agree appropriate care and treatment needs and facilitate timely discharge.

About us

Greater Manchester Integrated Care is a fully authorised ICB responsible for the full range of ICB statutory duties and powers. Each Place Based Team within NHS GM aims is to improve the health of the people and reduce health inequalities through strong, clinically led commissioning of high-quality healthcare services.

The GM Integrated Care Partnership are helping organisations work better together with people and communities. We want people across all our boroughs to stay well, whatever their age, and whatever issues or conditions they might be managing. We're bringing together all the different organisations that support people's health and social care, so that services can join up and act faster when people need support.

Integrated care means starting with the person, understanding they will have different needs as they move through life, and connecting them with the right care.

The role sits within Personalised Care & Individualised Commissioning team which is part of a wider Directorate led by the Associate Director of Nursing, Quality and Safeguarding.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will support local community multi-disciplinary teams to successfully discharge children and young people from hospital and live in the place they call home and to work proactively to help them to stay out of hospital. The post holder will demonstrate expert and effective practice in complex situations, working with and supporting colleagues to mitigate high levels of risk. Main duties of the job

Enabling preventative and integrated approaches which support children and young people with LD and/or Autism and behaviour that challenges to remain in their local communities by ensuring CETRs are carried out on time and to a high standard and ensuring that admissions to residential or CAMHS inpatient units will be prevented through quality risk management processes.

Establish and maintain effective links and good communication with all stakeholders including Local Authorities, NHS England, specialist services, Care Provider organisations and specialist mental health and learning disability service providers (NHS and independent sector).

Support processes and mechanisms that will ensure that patients in specialist mental health/learning disability services receive high quality and clinically appropriate treatment in accordance with identified individual care pathways and in the least restrictive setting.

Support the commissioning of individual packages of care in the community and monitor assurance outcomes whilst working to ensure individuals are safe and packages of care meet their needs.

Provide clinical case management for existing and new transforming care patients, including but not limited to unscheduled participation in CTRs to facilitate crisis intervention.

Work collaboratively with stakeholders to agree appropriate care and treatment needs and facilitate timely discharge.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to diploma level with extensive experience of Mental Health Service Provision including the Mental Health Act 1983.
• Post registration specialist knowledge and gained experience and evidence of CPD.
• Educated to a post graduate degree level or equivalent experience in Healthcare Service.
• Undertake personal and professional training and enhanced professional development in general and in relation to, patient discharge processes and healthcare funding processes.

Experience

• Significant diverse post qualification experience health related agencies, in children's services, or related private or voluntary organisation, of a magnitude that enables the post holder to work independently
• Experience of chairing meetings with clients, family members and/or carers and other multi-agency professionals; and making decisions and recommendations on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.

Knowedge

• Joint working with partner agencies
• High level working knowledge of the relevant legislation and theories underpinning the provision of services to the relevant client group - Mental Health legislation, NHS 10-year plan, Children Act 1989, Children and Families Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2009
• Knowledge and understanding of all relevant policies in relation to S117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and more broadly the Mental Health Act 1983 and all its key functions.
• High level knowledge of the Transforming Care agenda and Building the Right Support
• Expert understanding of relevant practice theories including Positive Behaviour Support
• Comprehensive working knowledge of safeguarding procedures and act in accordance of local safeguarding procedures.
• Knowledge and experience of clinical governance, within their current/past field of practice.
• Comprehensive knowledge of data protection and confidentiality issues.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.