Admission Avoidance Manager Adults (learning disabilities and autism)

Job responsibilities

Priority will be given to internal candidates within the NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB)

Interviews to take place 21st April 2023

The role of the Admissions Avoidance Manager for Adults is a vital part of the Transforming Care Programme, and someone with a clear understanding of the delivery of safe and effective care across a wide range of providers is required. We are looking for an individual who is able to take a lead role for ensuring that people are supported to be as independent as they can be and stay safely at home wherever possible. The post holder will be a confident communicator, have expertise in learning disability and autism with either a learning disability nursing or social care equivalent background, and demonstrate flexibility in their approach to each individual and MDT that they support.

The post holder will report to the Clinical Lead (Nurse) Adults Transforming Care, and work across the Humber region to assist colleagues and partner organisations to embed the DSR and C(E)TR processes within local services for adults with learning disability and/or autism spectrum conditions, working within both national and local policy and guidance. As part of the newly established Admissions Avoidance Hub the post holder will support their Admissions Avoidance Manager for Children and Young People colleague, to ensure effective and successful transition from Childrens and Adults services for the individuals known to the DSR, and to deputise for one another to provide service cover when required.

The postholder will provide a chair function for both community and inpatient C(E)TRs providing highly specialised advice for people with learning disabilities and/or autism who display behaviours which challenge under the Transforming Care Partnership programme.

The postholder will respond to requests to chair Local Area Emergency Protocol (LAEP) meetings, ensure that any actions are followed up and use the outcome to inform the Dynamic Support Register (DSR).

The postholder will be occasionally required to provide cover and support for colleagues in the admission avoidance hub, which supports people with a learning disability and autistic people of all ages through implementation of C(E)TRs and dynamic support systems.

The post holder will lead on the interpretation and implementation of the Dynamic support register (DSR) and care (education) and treatment review (C(E)TR) policy, 2023.

The aim of the C(E)TR is to bring a person-centred and individualised approach to ensuring that the care and treatment and differing support needs of the person and their families are met, and that barriers to progress are challenged, overcome and analysed, options compared and reviewed to agree the bestway forward. This analysis can be complex in terms of the nature of the role looking at the patients care and treatment options, legal status, capacity including capacity to care and treatment, residency and finances.

The post holder will coordinate action planning with health, social care, education and criminal justice professionals, and families following reviews to ensure that recommendations and outcomes from a C(E)TR are achieved. This will involve the discussion of highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, where persuasion, empathetic and re-assurance skills are required in order to gain agreement or co-operation.

The post holder will also provide data and information to meet national reporting requirements and in support of the Transforming Care Partnership Board.

The post holder will be required to travel across the Humber TCP area on a regular basis (Hull, East Riding, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire) and may occasionally be required to travel to hospitals which are outside of the Humber area

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered learning disability mental health nurse or social care equivalent
• Educated to degree level or relevant professional knowledge and experience
• Significant post registration training and experience in specialist area to Masters level or equivalent
• Detailed knowledge of mental health legislation and other relevant policy and statutory guidance

Desirable

• Significant knowledge and experience of working with people with learning disabilities and autism including adults, children and young people.
• Experience of working within forensic settings, CAMHS services, CMHTs and/or learning disability services.
• Person Centred Planning with families and people with learning disabilities and or autism

Experience

Essential

• Working independently with a high level of responsibility and autonomy
• Managing conflict to resolve complex situations
• Participation in multi-agency and multi-disciplinary work
• Chairing reviews of people with learning disabilities and autism care needs.
• Participation in regular supervision
• Working to tight and often changing timescales
• Understanding of Information Governance

Desirable

• Working with Complex Community cases
• Experience in undertaking risk assessments and safeguarding
• Training staff groups, families and people with learning disabilities and autism
• Audit and reporting

Skills / Competencies

Essential

• Computer skills and use of basic software, Word, Excel
• Excellent communication skills with a broad range of service providers, service users, families and partner organisations
• High level of skill and expertise in effective decision making
• Ability to successfully analyse complex issue and situations and provide practical solutions
• Values differences and regards people as individuals
• Ability to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation
• Able to work under pressure, dealing with peaks and troughs in workload
• Positive attitude to dealing with change; flexible and adaptable,willing to explore new ways of doing things and approaches
• Highly motivated and reliable
• Has a strong degree of personal integrity; able to adhere to standards of conduct and be dependable and reliable

Desirable

• Presentation of complex data and information to large groups of staff or members of the public

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.

UK Registration

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