Job summary
Fixed Term until 31st March 2024
Are you interested in developing your career and
contributing to the changes taking place in the NHS and
Childrens Services? Then, be part in the launch of the Key Worker Service for
children and young people with autism and/or learning disabilities.
We are looking for passionate and motivated professional with extensive experience working with children and young peoples services,
who can scale up provision, become expert in the range of services across
assigned boroughs, provide guidance to families and stakeholders on how to
navigate the local system and drive forward actions agreed by Education, Health
and Care Teams. The first phase of the launch of this service will be for
children and young people at high risk of admission and we expect the new team
of Specialist Key Workers to develop health, care and education packages,
coordinating with a multi-disciplinary team. This is a Band 7 role; so we
expect candidates to have a level of personal authority who will have the
confidence to champion the needs of our children and families, challenging the
system to improve outcomes for our patients. While this position is on fixed
term basis we are confident that the funding will be renewed as part of NHS
Long Term Plan.
We look forward to your application and to you helping us to
make health, education and care services the best services for children, young
people and their families in South West.
Main duties of the job
We are looking
for a Specialist Key Worker (SKW) for a Key Worker Service that was launched in
January 2023 for children and young people (CYP) with
autism and/or a learning disability (ASD/LD) who have complex needs and who are on the Dynamic Support Register)
to avoid critical placement breakdown or admission to an in-patient setting or
to facilitate rapid and sustainable discharge where admission has taken place.
This role consists in collaborating with the care teams already in
place for the CYP and their families and ensuring that the right package is
delivered at the right time. This will include working closely with the Child
and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), the Local Authorities, the
Special Needs Educational Team and the Social Care Teams in each Borough. The SKW would be providing
an additional layer of support to care partners that need it, help the families
and CYP navigate the social care system and know which provisions they can
access. The SKW is also expected to become an expert in the local area in which
they work (including community assets as well as services provided by statutory
authorities) provide advice, challenged and facilitate alternative options to
enable proactive and personalised care.
Interview Date: 11th and 13th October 2023
About us
On 1 July 2022, NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was established. The ICB, as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.
Each ICS consists of two statutory elements:
- an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services
- an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):
- to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare;
- tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;
- enhance productivity and value for money and;
- help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of duties held by this post, please refer to the job description
You will be
assigned a range of complex cases identified as red or amber on the Dynamic
Support Register (DSR) and expected to drive forward the actions and decisions
taken by the Care Education and Treatment Review teams (CETR). Sometimes this
may involve challenging partners if the delivery is too slow or not supplied
correctly.
The SKW is also required to mobilise the network,
facilitate discussions so there is a clear formulation of need, scale up
provisionand escalate concerns,
where actions agreed are not moving forward fast enough
The SKW will also
act as a lead for Key Workers (KWs) to be recruited in later phase of service
for CYP with less high risk cases (rated as red or amber on the DSR) and to
oversee that they are trained and introduced to the service seamlessly. The SKW
will have had more experience and excellent knowledge of the borough assigned
which they will acquaint to the more junior KWs. Essentially they will oversee
that the KW is delivering the service in its entirety.
This
function is strictly supernumerary and does not entail replacing any of the
Care coordinator roles. Once the package has been implemented to the SKWs
satisfaction, it is expected that they step down and allow the partners to
continue alone. The length of time needed for this supplementary support is
dependent on the severity of the case and can last up to one year.
The
postholder will work with the Borough CAMHS Leads and SWL Learning Disabilities
and Autism Lead to gather and utilise learning in the form of experience, data
and information to identify the gaps in, and barriers to, developing effective
support and multi-agency working for CYP and their families to help shape the
SWL project into an outstanding model of key working practice.
The
postholder will have a wide range of relevant experience and skills, including
passion and vision, to be effective in this pivotal role. A comprehensive
understanding of Learning Disabilities and Autism and the associated support
services, systems and structures (including systems such as Dynamic Support
Registers and Care, Education & Treatment Reviews) is required.
The postholder
will be an innovative, creative and reflective professional with a thirst for
learning new things and will be passionate about working co-productively to
develop and implement personalised care planning including setting up
personalised budgets based on assessed individualised needs.
1. Duties and Responsibilities
Working with children and young people who are in-patients or are
identified as high risk on the Dynamic Support Register to avoid admission or
achieve efficient, sustainable discharge and to access planned support in the
community.
Providing cross system knowledge and experience to help families
navigate and access services whilst maintaining a degree of independence from
those services to facilitate family focussed support and challenge to system
partners when necessary.
Coordinating support at pace to avoid admission and support speedy
and effective discharge back into the community.
Undertaking needs assessment of individual cases to ascertain what
support is already in place and identify what additional support might improve
outcomes.
Build and maintain productive and trusting relationships with CYP
and their families, monitoring and reviewing their needs on a regular basis to
gauge ongoing support requirements and address any challenges.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of duties held by this post, please refer to the job description
You will be
assigned a range of complex cases identified as red or amber on the Dynamic
Support Register (DSR) and expected to drive forward the actions and decisions
taken by the Care Education and Treatment Review teams (CETR). Sometimes this
may involve challenging partners if the delivery is too slow or not supplied
correctly.
The SKW is also required to mobilise the network,
facilitate discussions so there is a clear formulation of need, scale up
provisionand escalate concerns,
where actions agreed are not moving forward fast enough
The SKW will also
act as a lead for Key Workers (KWs) to be recruited in later phase of service
for CYP with less high risk cases (rated as red or amber on the DSR) and to
oversee that they are trained and introduced to the service seamlessly. The SKW
will have had more experience and excellent knowledge of the borough assigned
which they will acquaint to the more junior KWs. Essentially they will oversee
that the KW is delivering the service in its entirety.
This
function is strictly supernumerary and does not entail replacing any of the
Care coordinator roles. Once the package has been implemented to the SKWs
satisfaction, it is expected that they step down and allow the partners to
continue alone. The length of time needed for this supplementary support is
dependent on the severity of the case and can last up to one year.
The
postholder will work with the Borough CAMHS Leads and SWL Learning Disabilities
and Autism Lead to gather and utilise learning in the form of experience, data
and information to identify the gaps in, and barriers to, developing effective
support and multi-agency working for CYP and their families to help shape the
SWL project into an outstanding model of key working practice.
The
postholder will have a wide range of relevant experience and skills, including
passion and vision, to be effective in this pivotal role. A comprehensive
understanding of Learning Disabilities and Autism and the associated support
services, systems and structures (including systems such as Dynamic Support
Registers and Care, Education & Treatment Reviews) is required.
The postholder
will be an innovative, creative and reflective professional with a thirst for
learning new things and will be passionate about working co-productively to
develop and implement personalised care planning including setting up
personalised budgets based on assessed individualised needs.
1. Duties and Responsibilities
Working with children and young people who are in-patients or are
identified as high risk on the Dynamic Support Register to avoid admission or
achieve efficient, sustainable discharge and to access planned support in the
community.
Providing cross system knowledge and experience to help families
navigate and access services whilst maintaining a degree of independence from
those services to facilitate family focussed support and challenge to system
partners when necessary.
Coordinating support at pace to avoid admission and support speedy
and effective discharge back into the community.
Undertaking needs assessment of individual cases to ascertain what
support is already in place and identify what additional support might improve
outcomes.
Build and maintain productive and trusting relationships with CYP
and their families, monitoring and reviewing their needs on a regular basis to
gauge ongoing support requirements and address any challenges.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professionally qualified practitioner registered with a professional body: Social Worker, Mental Health Nurse and or Learning Disability Nurse, Clinical/ Counselling/ Educational Psychologist, Teacher, Family Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Child Psychotherapist or Behaviour Analyst/Positive Behaviour Practitioner, Child Development Practitioner or other relevant equivalent qualification.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Drive the CETR process, follow up actions/packages, personal health budgets
- Be Passionate and committed to build trust with the stakeholders and the care coordinators
- Have a nuanced understanding of need, functional behavioural approach and understanding,
- Pilot new alternative personalised approaches (buddying by Early Help)
- Be solution focused
- intervene intensively in a practical way and get things back on track for the child and their families.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professionally qualified practitioner registered with a professional body: Social Worker, Mental Health Nurse and or Learning Disability Nurse, Clinical/ Counselling/ Educational Psychologist, Teacher, Family Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Child Psychotherapist or Behaviour Analyst/Positive Behaviour Practitioner, Child Development Practitioner or other relevant equivalent qualification.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Drive the CETR process, follow up actions/packages, personal health budgets
- Be Passionate and committed to build trust with the stakeholders and the care coordinators
- Have a nuanced understanding of need, functional behavioural approach and understanding,
- Pilot new alternative personalised approaches (buddying by Early Help)
- Be solution focused
- intervene intensively in a practical way and get things back on track for the child and their families.
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).