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Provider Collaborative Case Manager Learning Disability and Autism

Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Worthing, England
Salary
£47,126 - £53,219 per annum \/ pro rata for part time
Closing date
26 Jan 2022

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Sector
Healthcare
Function
Administration
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time, Part Time

Job Details

Welcome from our Chief Executive - Samantha Allen

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Samantha Allen

Chief Executive

Job overview

Are you a registered healthcare professional motivated by making a difference to peoples lives? Due to retirement we are seeking to appoint 2 or more Learning Disability and Autism Case Managers to work as part of the Kent Surrey Sussex Adult Secure Provider Collaborative.

The post holder will be working closely with the clinical director and the wider team to ensure strategic objectives are delivered and relationships with the wider LD&A and forensic systems are nurtured and matured in each of the three areas.

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Main duties of the job

The posts aim to ensure a reduction in the length of stay and the safety and wellbeing of individuals using secure inpatient services.

The successful candidate will work with hospitals to ensure that treatment and care is both therapeutic and purposeful. And they will also work with wider community services to ensure clear care pathways are in place to enable safe discharge to the community.

Working for our organisation

The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a vision for greater local system integration and autonomy.

In specialised secure mental health, learning disability and Autism provision this aspiration is being implemented by giving local systems greater accountability by enabling Provider Collaboratives.

The Kent, Surrey and Sussex Adult Secure Provider Collaborative is financially and clinically responsible for the patient population in their geography. It spans a number of ICSs, and is able to pool financial risk across the partnership, allowing funding flexibility to make savings and reinvest in community to improve the whole pathway and reduce reliance on the most specialised, and restrictive, services.

Sussex Partnership is the lead provider in a collaborative that spans, Surrey, Sussex and Kent

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The primary role of the Case Manager will be to:

  • Work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service to ensure safe and effective care pathways are in place, including overseeing admissions and discharges to and from secure settings, in specialised adult secure mental health, learning disability and ASD services, within the NHS and Independent Sector.

  • Support the reduction of reliance on inpatients settings and reducing lengths of stay

  • Ensuring discharge planning begins and the earliest opportunity and delays are actively minimised and proactively avoided

  • Provide clinical support to the Provider Collaborative in relation to the defined population, including projected mapping of future service demand / use; identification of patients requiring secure service provision and planning in terms of future service need.

  • Supporting the Provider Collaborative in driving transformation and value for money in the planning and commissioning of services.

  • Build a combination of subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop strong safe and effective service delivery.

  • Work with wider stakeholders and local providers to ensure patients receive care as close to home as possible.
  • Promote and drive forward Building the Right Support programme requirements, with particular focus on ensuring trajectories for hospital al discharge and the prevention of avoidable hospital readmissions are delivered
  • In the event of underperformance; diagnose, understand and review the LD&A programme delivery taking into account systems, management, operational, cultural, resourcing challenges and governance processes
  • Working with stakeholders to provide positive challenge, leadership and operational input to the system to negotiate and drive solutions, recovery actions and plans to address under performance with a strong focus on the hospital discharge and readmission trajectories and the transformation programme.
  • Provide progress reports as required through personal representation at stakeholder events, senior management forums and by written reports to boards and groups of
  • Present complex information in a clear, understandable and audience-appropriate manner to patient, families, stakeholders and senior management and board level groups
  • Ensure that best practice is developed and delivered at organisational and departmental levels. Challenge ways of working and persuade, motivate and influence other senior managers to realign their practice where
  • Taking into account the wishes of patients and their family, personally lead, support and contribute to negotiations to resolve blockages and obstacles delaying hospital discharges with senior level clinical and managerial staff from NHS and external stakeholder
  • Support and assist as required with the related delivery requirements of the emerging STP footprints

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria
  • Registered Mental Health/Learning Disability Nurse or other registered health or social care professional

Desirable criteria
  • Possess a relevant additional professional qualification

Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
  • Detailed operational knowledge of Learning Disability care, support and treatment services, including risk assessment/management
  • Significant experience of leading change and empowering independence in others
  • Evidence of continuing personal and/or professional development
  • Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current LD&A policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement

Skills
Essential criteria
  • Development and maintenance of therapeutic alliance with service users and their families /cares
  • High-level management skills, able to perform to high level in clinical setting.
  • Case management skills, focusing on the needs of the individual andthe context of their pathway in relation to all clinical and legal processes
  • High-level communication in particular skills across a range of agency and professional boundaries at a national level.
  • Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
  • Ability to negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
  • Adept at working in a person -centered way. Skilled at dealing with families, especially where there is conflict
  • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
  • Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
  • Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
  • Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
  • Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long -term times frames and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
  • Be familiar with Life Panning or other similar person -centered citizenship based approached to planning
  • Must be able to priorities own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
  • Full driving license and car is essential

Approach/Values
Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve service user outcomes
  • Demonstrably involves service user and the public in their work
  • Support the intentions of the Transforming Care Programme and be committed to the values and principles that underpin a citizenship based approach to supporting people with a learning disability and/or autistic spectrum condition
  • Consistently puts clinicians at the heart of decision making
  • Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
  • Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation
  • Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.

Company

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Who we are

We provide specialist NHS mental health and learning disability services in south east England. People receive care, treatment and support from us in hospital, at home and from a range of community services. Our services are rated ‘good’ by the Care Quality Commission and ‘outstanding’ for caring.

Where we are

We provide services for people of all ages across Sussex and services for children and young people in Hampshire. There’s something for everyone in our local area, whether that’s the hustle and bustle of Brighton, the scenic South Downs or our wonderful coastline where you can chill out to the sound of the surf.

What we can offer you

When you join us, you’ll be coming to work in an organisation that puts people first. We’ll do everything we can to make you feel valued, respected and included. You will be given plenty of opportunities here for your career to flourish. We’re an organisation which is strong on innovation, research and learning, and we will support your development and help you learn new skills in whichever team or service you work in.

Check out the links below to view our key areas of recruitment

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Social Work

Healthcare Support Workers 

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Check out our latest video below where we hear from our inspiring nurses why Sussex Partnership is such a great place to work.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01903843000
Location
Trust HQ
Swandean
Arundel Road
Worthing
BN13 3EP
GB

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