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Social Worker for Eating Disorder Inpatients | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 17 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,162 - £44,629 Per annum (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 16 August 2024 |
| Location: | Tottenham, N15 3TH |
| Company: | Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6446504/306-BEH-2113 |
Summary
The Eating Disorders inpatient unit based at St Ann's Hospital, provides a comprehensive specialist inpatient service to the north central and north east London. The service is also a national provider of specialist eating disorder inpatient treatment. The inpatient unit is part of range of eating disorder services the Trust provides and is aimed at patients over the age of 18 years old with a primary diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. The post holder will take a lead in ensuring that social care needs are identified on admission and form a central part of the care plan. They will provide training, support and consultation to colleagues as well as ensuring that services are identified and in place to meet those identified social care needs upon discharge. The post holder will take a lead in liaising with secondary care teams that hold responsibility for delivering the social care needs on discharge and ensure that services are in place to prevent delayed discharges occurring. The post holder will also take a lead on the Transforming Care agenda with patients who have a comorbid learning disability.
Conduct triage and comprehensive social work assessments to inform recommendations and implement care pathways. Prepare accurate reports post-assessment in line with quality standards. Make social care judgments as situations evolve. High interpersonal skills are essential for managing complex, conflicting needs. Facilitate signposting/referrals and interventions in collaboration with relevant agencies, utilizing local service knowledge. Represent the team in strategic management of high-risk patients by attending clinical reviews and case conferences. Oversee patients, carers, and resources to aid the multidisciplinary team in care plans and risk management. Maintain professional practice in therapeutic interventions, including individual and group therapies. Plan, implement, and evaluate social work interventions considering patient and community risk. Provide specialist consultation to carers and others involved in patient care. Liaise with health/social service providers, manage time and resources to ensure high-quality care, and maintain confidential patient records. Provide accurate reports and statistics as instructed. Make appropriate referrals, liaise with inpatient/outpatient services, and assist clients under locality mental health teams. Promote mental health and community initiatives, raise awareness of eating disorders/mental health issues, and ensure services are culturally sensitive. Offer expert advice based on research evidence.
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
· To work closely with community mental health and social care teams to plan for care packages and residential support, including completing funding paperwork and, where needed, Care Act assessments and presenting or co-presenting cases to the funding panel.
· To follow up on matters relating to referrals, care packages and residential support once patients have been discharged from the ward.
· To liaise with the North London Collaborative Case Manager regarding complex case management and funding issues.
· To alternate between chairing and minuting community meetings on the ward.
· To complete Social Circumstances Reports and present them at Mental Health Tribunals and Managers Hearings.
· To liaise with AMHP services regarding Mental Health Act assessments, arranging for them to attend the ward, coordinating the assessments on the day, and providing information to the AMHPs to support their assessments.
· To set up CTR meetings for patients who are autistic or have learning disabilities, ensuring that all relevant information and documentation is provided to the panel.
· To carry out Mental Capacity Act assessments.
· To advise colleagues, including from the Outpatient Service and from the Day Programme, on housing, benefits, safeguarding and other matters relating to social care needs.
· To attend safeguarding meetings in relation to adults and children, providing an expert opinion on levels of risk.
· To deliver difficult news regarding care to patients and their families, including talks on substance use, decisions regarding leave and serving CTO recall papers.
· To provide professional letters regarding inpatients to external services, including the DWP, local authorities, universities and the Home Office.
· To plan and run therapeutic groups.
· To act as the safeguarding champion for the ward, investigating concerns, completing relevant documentation and referral and liaising with the Trust’s safeguarding team.
This advert closes on Wednesday 31 Jul 2024