Job summary
Maple Ward is a 19 bedded mixed-gender unit located at The Longley Centre, Norwood Grange Drive, Sheffield 5. It is a clinically active environment providing for the assessment and treatment of service users experiencing a diverse range of emergency mental health needs.
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to undertake the role of Discharge Coordinator within the mental health acute inpatient ward setting. If successful in role then you will be responsible for leading on hospital discharge for those admitted to the ward, embedding yourself as a key part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team to facilitate this. Working within a dynamic multidisciplinary team, you will need to develop discharge plans for all patients including those with complex health and social care needs, supporting and developing quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient care specifically around Purposeful Inpatient Admission (PIpA) principles.
Main duties of the job
This role includes the need to create strong working relationships with service providers internally and externally to the Trust with a clear emphasis on partnership working between community mental health services within SHSC. You will act as a positive role model in the ward team, ensuring high standards of practice and professional behaviour alongside supporting effective change procedures to support current guidance around care.
The post holder will work as part of the leadership and management team actively and positively contribute to the clinical governance and development of the ward processes and policies.
You will need to be a registered mental health professional with relevant registration (Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker)and post registration experience. The post holder will have a commitment to enhancing their own knowledge and skills whilst engaging the team in supervision for there development.
If you decide to apply for this post but do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
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About us
Sheffield Health and Social Care's vision is to improve the mental, physical and social wellbeing of the people in our communities.
We will do this by:
- Working with and advocating for the local population
- Refocusing our services towards prevention and early intervention
- Continuous improvement of our services
- Locating services as close to peoples' homes as we can
- Developing a confident and skilled workforce
- Ensuring excellent and sustainable services
Our values
Our values are a series of behaviours that everyone at the Trust is expected to adhere to.
We are proud to live our values each and every day.They outline how we will act to ensure we provide the very best care to the people we support.
Our values are:
- Working together for our service users
- Respect and kindness
- Everyone counts
- Commitment to quality
- Improving lives
Our strategic aims
As a result of the work we have undertaken to review our strategic direction with our staff, leadership group, Joint Consultative Forum, Council of Governors, Board, partners and people who use services, we have revised our strategic aims to formally acknowledge the importance of addressing inclusion for our staff and people who use our services, as follows:
- Deliver outstanding care
- Create a great place to work
- Effective use of resources
- Ensure our services are inclusive
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Responsible for the coordination and monitoring of care plans, ensuring all in-patients have effective plans at the point of hospital admission and are discharged in a timely manner with a smooth transition to other services
- Responsible for maintaining a collaborative working interface with Home Treatment Team to identify patients suitable for discharge, and to work together to promote a smooth discharge pathway from inpatient services.
- Work with external services in a timely manner so to identify practical help that can be provided to clients in achieving a prompt discharge.
- Works as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team, maintaining and actively role modelling high standards of care.
- To develop effective changes in practice so to support in-patients receiving a high standard of care, meeting individual needs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Responsible for the coordination and monitoring of care plans, ensuring all in-patients have effective plans at the point of hospital admission and are discharged in a timely manner with a smooth transition to other services
- Responsible for maintaining a collaborative working interface with Home Treatment Team to identify patients suitable for discharge, and to work together to promote a smooth discharge pathway from inpatient services.
- Work with external services in a timely manner so to identify practical help that can be provided to clients in achieving a prompt discharge.
- Works as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team, maintaining and actively role modelling high standards of care.
- To develop effective changes in practice so to support in-patients receiving a high standard of care, meeting individual needs.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health qualification (Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker) with relevant professional registration.
- Commitment to enhancing own knowledge and skills.
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate an effective contribution to MDT working.
- Demonstrate an awareness of current developments in clinical practice.
- Demonstrate experience of supervising qualified staff.
- Demonstrate evidence of the application of post basic education into clinical practise.
- Demonstrate evidence of leadership on a service development issue.
- Demonstrate risk assessment and risk management skills with service users and the environment.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the Mental Health Act, 1983.
- Demonstrate a thorough working knowledge of CPA and the Acute Care Pathway.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the processes of change.
- Demonstrate sound leadership skills, possessing the ability to direct and motivate staff.
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Demonstrate evidence of good organisational skills.
- Computer skills
Desirable
- Skills in DBT, CBT or PSI
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health qualification (Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker) with relevant professional registration.
- Commitment to enhancing own knowledge and skills.
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate an effective contribution to MDT working.
- Demonstrate an awareness of current developments in clinical practice.
- Demonstrate experience of supervising qualified staff.
- Demonstrate evidence of the application of post basic education into clinical practise.
- Demonstrate evidence of leadership on a service development issue.
- Demonstrate risk assessment and risk management skills with service users and the environment.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the Mental Health Act, 1983.
- Demonstrate a thorough working knowledge of CPA and the Acute Care Pathway.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the processes of change.
- Demonstrate sound leadership skills, possessing the ability to direct and motivate staff.
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Demonstrate evidence of good organisational skills.
- Computer skills
Desirable
- Skills in DBT, CBT or PSI
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).
Additional information
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).
