Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exceptional and highly experienced candidate to provide strategic and operational leadership focused upon supporting inpatient flow and safe discharge planning for inpatients.
This is a fixed term one-year contract. The post holder will be expected to provide leadership to the health and social care agenda within inpatient services across Hounslow and H&F and ensuring timely and proactive discharge planning for service users.
The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain close and positive relationship with key stakeholders, lead and coordinate work with a range of professionals and provide professional expertise on relevant health and social care legislations.
This role comes at an exciting time when we have the development of new services and are working on piloting a number of improvement initiatives across the AMHS Service Line. Your role will be pivotal in supporting the development and implementation of these transformation initiatives. Additionally, you will provide leadership and support embedding these new initiatives in practice.
Main duties of the job
o Provide expert leadership to the health and social care agenda within inpatient services, ensuring timely and proactive care planning is offered to users and their families to the best possible standard in keeping with the Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Care Act 2014.
o Develop and maintain close and positive relationship with key stakeholders to ensure timely discharge planning to include the 3rd sector community offer and housing.
o Promote a strengths-based patient-centred approach to discharge planning, keeping the principles of independence, choice and control at the heart of service delivery.
o Work alongside Clinical Inpatient Services and Community Services to identify barriers to discharge at point of admission and seek to implement and engage services to address these barriers, so that no patient is in hospital longer than necessary.
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We'rerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
The regulations mandating vaccination for in-scope roles in the NHS have now been removed. The Trust does however continue to encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. Vaccination data will be collected by our recruitment team during your on-boarding if you are happy to provide a copy of your COVID pass.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1 To manage, monitor and deliver a high performing, productive, quality service that is cost effective and work closely with key partners with an increased focus on personalisation and self-directed support, assuring high professional standards of social work practice.
2 To oversee the more complex caseload to include service users who are delayed in their care and have identified barriers to discharge, working with a high degree of personal and professional accountability and autonomy.
3 To act as the primary management contact for the Local Authorities and other external partners in respect of social work in the service, taking a lead role in facilitating relationship development.
Support the patients journey and transition from inpatient care to successful reintegration into the community, promoting the service user voice and ensuring that all policies and protocols are followed
Job description
Job responsibilities
1 To manage, monitor and deliver a high performing, productive, quality service that is cost effective and work closely with key partners with an increased focus on personalisation and self-directed support, assuring high professional standards of social work practice.
2 To oversee the more complex caseload to include service users who are delayed in their care and have identified barriers to discharge, working with a high degree of personal and professional accountability and autonomy.
3 To act as the primary management contact for the Local Authorities and other external partners in respect of social work in the service, taking a lead role in facilitating relationship development.
Support the patients journey and transition from inpatient care to successful reintegration into the community, promoting the service user voice and ensuring that all policies and protocols are followed
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification in Social Work and registered with Social Work England plus relevant experience and training
- Masters or equivalent CPD portfolio
- BIA Qualified
Desirable
- Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or demonstrable practice and expertise in an Adults Inpatient service and knowledge of mental health legislation.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post qualifying and management experience in adult mental health services.
- Significant experience of social work leadership.
- Experience of working across complex organisational boundaries.
- Experience of managing different organisational cultures and working across professional groups across Health and LA's.
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge, experience and understanding of delivering high quality and cost effective services for service users.
- Detailed knowledge of professional and regulatory standards and skills in applying them in practice including complex situations.
- Extensive knowledge of leadership theory and highly developed practical skills including leading with shared purpose, leading with care, sharing the vision, engaging teams, developing accountability and holding to account.
- Sound practical understanding of policies, processes and legislation necessary to deliver complex services to service users and carers.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification in Social Work and registered with Social Work England plus relevant experience and training
- Masters or equivalent CPD portfolio
- BIA Qualified
Desirable
- Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or demonstrable practice and expertise in an Adults Inpatient service and knowledge of mental health legislation.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post qualifying and management experience in adult mental health services.
- Significant experience of social work leadership.
- Experience of working across complex organisational boundaries.
- Experience of managing different organisational cultures and working across professional groups across Health and LA's.
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge, experience and understanding of delivering high quality and cost effective services for service users.
- Detailed knowledge of professional and regulatory standards and skills in applying them in practice including complex situations.
- Extensive knowledge of leadership theory and highly developed practical skills including leading with shared purpose, leading with care, sharing the vision, engaging teams, developing accountability and holding to account.
- Sound practical understanding of policies, processes and legislation necessary to deliver complex services to service users and carers.
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).
