Overview
Would you like to work in an environment that provides high quality therapy and care in a dynamic and therapeutic environment? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced qualified social worker to join our team supporting the timely transition of patients with complex neurological disability into the community following a period of rehabilitation.
The Regional Hyper‑acute Rehabilitation Unit (RHRU) is a 24 bed inpatient specialist neuro‑rehabilitation service which offers intensive multi‑disciplinary neuro‑rehabilitation to adults with severe and complex cognitive, communicative, physical and psychosocial difficulties.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide assessments of patients supporting their transition from hospital to returning to the community.
- Have excellent organisational and negotiation skills and knowledge of health and social care pathways and assessment tools.
- Have experience of mental capacity and a good understanding of safeguarding and deprivation of liberty policies.
- Work closely with patient’s treating team and liaise with a wide range of external agencies across the South East of England.
- Balance the complex interaction of risk, safety, and patient choice.
- Work as a key worker alongside other key workers to support patients through their rehabilitation pathway.
- Provide assessment and evaluation for patients with a wide range of complex physical, sensory, perceptual, cognitive, behavioural and communication problems within the rehabilitation setting, supporting patients as they transition from being in hospital to returning to the community.
- Manage own caseload in close collaboration with the multidisciplinary team and other external agencies to ensure complex care plans and rehabilitation/maintenance therapy is set up to meet ongoing needs in the community.
- Provide professional leadership in situations which have highly complex case arrangements including situations which involve capacity, deprivation of liberty, risk, complexity and safeguarding of the patient or children within the patient’s family.
- Provide specialist advice relating to the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare / NHS Funded Nursing Care, leading, guiding and directing team members to complete referrals and assessments in line with the specified timelines.
- Manage and supervise RHRU’s Discharge Coordinator and Information and Benefits Advisor.
- Manage any complicated issues which may arise on a day‑to‑day basis.
- Support MDT in emergency situations.
Qualifications
- Qualified Social Worker with experience in neuro‑rehabilitation or related field.
- Experience with mental capacity legislation and safeguarding, including deprivation of liberty policies.
- Knowledge of health and social care pathways and assessment tools.
- Ability to manage caseload and collaborate with multidisciplinary team and external agencies.
