Senior Case Manager (Older Adult Mental Health)

NHS; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading health and social care Trust in the UK seeks a Senior Case Manager for Older Adult Mental Health. This part-time position involves driving Out of Area Hospital placements and ensuring quality care pathways are established. Candidates must be registered health professionals educated to master's level or have equivalent experience. The Trust values staff development and offers enhanced benefits beyond typical NHS offerings.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Registered health or social care professional.
• Educated to master's level or experienced at senior level in a specialist area.
• Knowledge of clinical audit and serious incident policy.

Responsibilities

• Deliver effective service with a dynamic team.
• Undertake quality visits and agree discharge plans.
• Liaise with partners to ensure individual needs are met.

Skills

Understanding of healthcare quality requirements

Negotiation skills

Education

Registered Mental Health / Learning Disability Nurse

Master's level education or equivalent experience

Tools

Quality improvement tools/processes

Job description

Job summary

SECONDMENT or FIXED TERM (6 months )

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Case Manager (Older Adult Mental Health) at the Humber and North Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Collaborative.

The post holder will work alongside the Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Collaborative to provide additional centralised capacity to drive the Out of Area Hospital placements work.

Please ensure approval for secondment is sought prior to application being submitted. This is a part-time post of 22.5 hours (3 days per week).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service; supporting managers and staff across Humber and North Yorkshire to ensure safe and effective care pathways are in place for service users of specialised mental health care settings within the NHS and Independent sectors.

This will include:

• Undertaking face to face quality visits - which will include travel outside of the Humber and North Yorkshire region.
• Agreeing robust discharge plans in line with national guidance
• Liaising with key partners from the system to ensure local services can meet individual need, and oversee the repatriation of individuals. Partners will include named local case manager, social care, housing, complex care directorate, local NHS providers, specialised commissioning, MoJ

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire.

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone.

Benefits

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

Person Specification

Skills and Competencies

• Demonstrate an understanding of the requirements of quality in healthcare and commissioning healthcare services.
• Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.

Qualifications & Knowledge

• Registered Mental Health / Learning Disability Nurse or other registered health or social care professional
• Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Knowledge of Quality improvement tools/processes e.g., clinical audit, investigation tools, national serious incident policy
• Knowledge and experience of one or more specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training

Experience

• Experience of managing clinical risks and reporting.
• Case Management/Investigations experience

Additional information

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.