Integrated Discharge Team Social Worker

Job responsibilities

Job overview

We are looking for a Social Worker to join our Integrated Discharge Team, in Riverside Centre for mental health in Hillingdon or Park Royal Centre for Mental Health in Brent.

We are looking for a motivated, knowledgeable and skilled social worker who can work along side a Multidisciplinary Team in an in-patient, identifying and removing social barriers to discharge.

You will be managing a caseload across a few in-patient wards, whilst having support from a band 4 support worker in managing the caseload.

We are seeking a candidate who has a keen interest in or knowledge of barriers to discharge to service users in-patient settings and who can work to resolve these thorough the discharge planning process.

You will be working with other internal and external agencies E.G: housing, adult social care and immigration.

You must have an in-depth knowledge of social care legislation and associated local authority guidance.

You will be part of the local inpatient team and the trust wide Integrated Discharge Team.

The successful applicant will have direct and indirect contact with service users and a caseload to manage.

You will supervisor responsibility for the worker undertaken by unregistered support workers within the team.

You will be supported by a Service Manager Lead at Band 8A and the Service Lead Band 8B for the Integrated Discharge Team.

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.

Main duties of the job

You will work in a targeted way to achieve the discharge plan for inpatients, maximising independence and choice for the individual, and work in a solution focussed way to ensure that any social barriers to discharge are addressed in a timely manner to support an effective discharge.

You will screen all new admissions to hospital to ascertain if there are any barriers to discharge and will join key meetings to support with discharge planning.

You will work with individuals, families and carers, community services, housing departments, third sector organisations, and other relevant parties to ensure smooth transition to the community from hospital.

This is a hospital based post and requires the successful, applicant to work on site and face to face in multidisciplinary meetings and whilst supporting service users.

You will focus on all KPIs linked to length of stay and out of area placement elimination.

You will sit organisationally within the Jameson Urgent Care Service as part of the Integrated Discharge Team, however, operationally you will be part of the Inpatient Service team and be present on the inpatient wards within a defined geographical area working with an identified caseload to enable effective discharge planning.

Education

Essential

• Social Work Qualification
• Current HCPC Registration or Social Work Registered
• Skills & Abilities
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Professional Expertise

Desirable

• Professional supervision qualification
• AMHP/BIA qualification

Experience

Essential

• 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

• 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
• 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
• IT literate, of MS Word, Excel and MS Teams, including previously experience of SystmOne (or equivalent electronic patient records system).
• Demonstrate the ability to liaise effectively with other agencies, both statutory and non-statutory
• Ability to write clear, concise reports.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Excellent performance analysis and monitoring.
• Presentation skills
• Flexible and adaptable to meet deadlines, commitments and priorities.
• High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive or performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude.

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• 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 ? Homelessness Reduction Act and Housing legislation

Attitude, Aptitude & Personal Characteristics

Essential

• Demonstrate creativity and a flexible approach to work in delivering a high standard of care.
• Self-motivated and autonomous.
• Knowledge of and ability to work as part of a multi-professional team as a lead clinician and role model
• Ability to work effectively in crisis situations in order to maintain the safety of both staff and patient.
• Ability to work as part of a multi-professional team as demonstrate in daily working.
• Act as a role model to other health professionals.
• Ability to work effectively in crisis situations in order to maintain the safety of both staff and patient.
• Demonstrate and show punctuality, integrity and honesty at all times
• Demonstrates CNWLs trust values and cultural pillars in your work, with colleagues and service users and internal and external agencies.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).