Senior Clinical Keyworker

NHS; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare authority is seeking a Senior Clinical Keyworker to empower citizens and their families to navigate care services in Wolverhampton. This role involves multi-disciplinary teamwork and support for individuals with autism and learning disabilities. Successful candidates will possess significant relevant skills and understanding of the education, health, and care systems. A professional registration is required. This position offers an opportunity to make a difference in the local community.

Qualifications

• Experience working with individuals with autism and/or learning disability.
• Understanding of the education, health and care system.

Responsibilities

• Empower citizens and families to navigate services.
• Provide a single point of support.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Support individuals and families with care planning.

Skills

Experience working with individuals with autism and/or learning disability

Significant and relevant skills

Understanding of education, health and care system

Education

Professional registration

Job description

Go back Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Clinical Keyworker

The closing date is 10 November 2025

A key function of the role is to empower citizens and their families and support them with navigating barriers across multiple services and organisations to effectively access the right support from the system. Our keyworking model is about a set of functions introduced to the system via the keyworking role, in addition to the current roles in place to support citizens of all ages and their support system. The keyworking function will dynamically connect the system, coordinating care systemically to maximise local resources and work more effectively with families.

Please see full Job description for further details.

Main duties of the job

A key function of the role is to empower citizens and their families and support them with navigating barriers across multiple services and organisations to effectively access the right support from the system. Our keyworking model is about a set of functions introduced to the system via the keyworking role, in addition to the current roles in place to support citizens of all ages and their support system. The keyworking function will dynamically connect the system, coordinating care systemically to maximise local resources and work more effectively with families.

Please see full Job description for further details.

About us

Employees, workers, and / or contractors will be expected to uphold the values of the Trust and exhibit the expected Trust behaviours aligned to the Trust's values. Individuals have a responsibility to ensure that they display the Trust values and behaviours in carrying out their job and that individuals feel able to challenge (or raise a challenge) when other colleagues' behaviours breach the spirit of Trust values.

Job responsibilities

• To listen to the individual, taking time to understand their strengths and agree with them a plan to build on those strengths to support individual, and to keep them safe and well
• To provide a single point of support to help make the connections between the individual; their support network and the array of services & support available signposting & supporting to gain access to services in timely way
• To work with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure planning is focused on the individual, & that teams are working together & being challenged when this is not happening in a way that is supportive.
• To build resilience with individuals, their support network and services by connecting with training; prevention & self-help approaches
• To support planning for adulthood.
• To support the multi-agency identification of required early assessments and support a joined up, co-ordinated and responsive approach to completion,
• To support multi-disciplinary assessments and CETRs at an early stage
• To help to ensure gaps in professionals knowledge of what is available for this cohort is reduced and inform needs led future commissioning including post diagnostic support.
• To support improvement in quality of care and reduction of inequalities of individuals in the youth justice system.
• To assist the family to navigate the support needed to meet EHCPs already in place, or to enable EHCPs to be developed if young person out of education
• To assist individuals and families navigate services to support prior to crisis, or when needs not meeting care act criteria
• To support individuals and families access direct payments & personal health budgets
• To support individuals to understand the roles of different professionals involved
• To build on existing Black Country good practice examples of multi-agency working and communication, flexible family support & access to psychological interventions.
• To support teams and services to develop and share their knowledge of examples of best practice across the Black Country system and thereby reduce inequalities
• To work co-operatively and responsively with individuals who are on the Dynamic Support Register.
• To support individuals and their families at, and be actively involved in, multi-agency meetings e.g. Care Education and Treatment reviews (CETRs), Care Programme Approach (CPA) Meetings, Mental Health Act (MHA) Tribunals, Child in Need and other Multi agency meetings if applicable, demonstrating a high level of professional practice.
• To support production of needs and outcomes-based action plans with timescales, support update of existing CETR Action Plans, education health care plans (EHCPs). Where applicable be part of Child Protection Strategy discussions, Initial/ongoing Child Protection Care Conferences, Core Groups, as well as supporting any Youth Offending meetings and processes as applicable, demonstrating a high level of professional practice.
• To increase the skills of front-line professionals, work alongside them and challenge the system.
• To co-produce personalised pen pictures which are strengths based
• To work with partners in the area of Integrated Personal Budgets / Personal Health Budgets to develop creative solutions to individual needs.
• To be part of the Dynamic Support Register team.
• Drive and implement appropriate national and local approaches in the working model e.g. AMBIT.
• To work with partner agencies to identify individuals who would benefit from being on the Dynamic Support Register.
• To undertake any other duties of a similar nature consistent with the responsibilities of this post in order to provide a quality keyworking service.
• To support the Profesisonal Lead Keyworker in tasks such as supervision of the wider keyworker team.

Person Specification

Experience

• Significant and relevant skills
• Experience working with individuals with autism and/or learning disability
• Evidence of professional registration
• Knowledge or ability to learn of Black Country locally available provision
• Understanding of the education, health and care system to fulfil keyworking function of holding services to account.

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.

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust