Mental Health – Integrated Discharge Team Social Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 16 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £56,276 - £63,176 PA inc HCAS |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 15 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, W10 6DZ |
| Cwmni: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7345608/333-J-UC-0033 |
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A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will sit organisationally within the Urgent and Emergency Care pathway of Inpatient Services and be present on the inpatient wards within a defined geographical area working with an identified caseload to enable effective discharge planning.
As this is a patient facing role the post holder will need to be on-site daily to meet with Patients individually or in small groups and attend MDT/White Boardrounds.
The post holder will need to have 2 years experience as a qualified social worker and experience of working with people with mental health social needs either in the community or in-patient settings.
The post holder will work in a targeted way to achieve the best pathway out of hospital, maximizing independence and choice for the individual and working in a solution focused way to ensure that once ready, there are no barriers in place to effect patients discharge’s.
The post holder will use the strengths based social model of care when carrying out their duties with a home first as standard practice and all other pathway being discussed as part of the multidisciplinary team.
The post holder will work with individuals, families and carers, community services, housing and social care departments, third sector organisations, and other relevant agencies/parties to ensure smooth transition to the community from hospital.
The post holder will work with individuals identified through their attendance and participation at Daily Whiteboard Meetings and Weekly Bed Management/Patient Flow Meetings, Weekly Clinically Ready for Discharge (CRFD) meetings and MDT/Professional meetings as required.
OUR VALUES
Compassion: Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.
Respect: We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of each individual.
Empowerment: We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles. We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.
Partnership: We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The post holder will coordinate the DTOC (and pre-DTOC) list for the Borough and attend the weekly DTOC meeting as a matter of routine to update on progress and highlight any potential blocks that they have been unable to resolve.
• Using strengths based social work practice to
manage a specific caseload of individuals who are inpatients and patients on HTT caseload and have potential barriers to discharge identified early on, in their inpatient stay or admission to HTT. Pre-empt and resolve arising barriers to discharge and length of stay.
• Ensure that patient care is provided in the most appropriate care setting to ensure effective and efficient treatment and that there is a clear and robust discharge plan. This will involve attendance on wards for specific discussions including White Board meetings, CPA meetings and s117 discharge planning meetings.
• Attend the weekly bed management meetings and take an active role in challenging delays in discharge.
• Develop positive working relationships with key stakeholders, including local commissioners (health & local authority)
• To develop effective relationships with housing providers, tenancy support teams and benefit agencies specific to the Borough.
• Verification of purpose of admission and expected length of stay for all new admissions to the hospital. Ensure ward staff have identified an Expected Date of Discharge (EDD) and identify likely pathway out of hospital early during their inpatient stay.
• Ensure that tenancies are maintained whilst in hospital and that independence is maximised on discharge.
This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Jul 2025
The post holder will sit organisationally within the Urgent and Emergency Care pathway of Inpatient Services and be present on the inpatient wards within a defined geographical area working with an identified caseload to enable effective discharge planning.
As this is a patient facing role the post holder will need to be on-site daily to meet with Patients individually or in small groups and attend MDT/White Boardrounds.
The post holder will need to have 2 years experience as a qualified social worker and experience of working with people with mental health social needs either in the community or in-patient settings.
The post holder will work in a targeted way to achieve the best pathway out of hospital, maximizing independence and choice for the individual and working in a solution focused way to ensure that once ready, there are no barriers in place to effect patients discharge’s.
The post holder will use the strengths based social model of care when carrying out their duties with a home first as standard practice and all other pathway being discussed as part of the multidisciplinary team.
The post holder will work with individuals, families and carers, community services, housing and social care departments, third sector organisations, and other relevant agencies/parties to ensure smooth transition to the community from hospital.
The post holder will work with individuals identified through their attendance and participation at Daily Whiteboard Meetings and Weekly Bed Management/Patient Flow Meetings, Weekly Clinically Ready for Discharge (CRFD) meetings and MDT/Professional meetings as required.
OUR VALUES
Compassion: Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.
Respect: We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of each individual.
Empowerment: We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles. We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.
Partnership: We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The post holder will coordinate the DTOC (and pre-DTOC) list for the Borough and attend the weekly DTOC meeting as a matter of routine to update on progress and highlight any potential blocks that they have been unable to resolve.
• Using strengths based social work practice to
manage a specific caseload of individuals who are inpatients and patients on HTT caseload and have potential barriers to discharge identified early on, in their inpatient stay or admission to HTT. Pre-empt and resolve arising barriers to discharge and length of stay.
• Ensure that patient care is provided in the most appropriate care setting to ensure effective and efficient treatment and that there is a clear and robust discharge plan. This will involve attendance on wards for specific discussions including White Board meetings, CPA meetings and s117 discharge planning meetings.
• Attend the weekly bed management meetings and take an active role in challenging delays in discharge.
• Develop positive working relationships with key stakeholders, including local commissioners (health & local authority)
• To develop effective relationships with housing providers, tenancy support teams and benefit agencies specific to the Borough.
• Verification of purpose of admission and expected length of stay for all new admissions to the hospital. Ensure ward staff have identified an Expected Date of Discharge (EDD) and identify likely pathway out of hospital early during their inpatient stay.
• Ensure that tenancies are maintained whilst in hospital and that independence is maximised on discharge.
This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Jul 2025
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