Older Adult Services
Community Mental Health Social Worker (Hospital at Home)
3 posts available – these are all cross‑county posts covering Coventry and North and South Warwickshire.
The Older Adults Service works with older adults who have mental health needs in the community. The team is multidisciplinary, consisting of OT, nursing, psychiatry, psychology, social work, voluntary sector, support workers and peer workers. The service works closely with health, social care, statutory and voluntary sector partners.
The focus of the position is to maintain patients at home whilst supporting a strengths‑based approach to recovery. The role will be based in the community teams, working within people’s homes to support admission prevention, quicker discharges and to support carers. We are looking for enthusiastic, dynamic and experienced individuals who can work confidently on their own as well as being a team player. Good communication and problem‑solving skills are essential, as well as knowledge of the needs of older adults. We also are looking for people who can demonstrate the Trust’s vision and values in practice, and are motivated to be involved in innovation and service development.
The Older Adults Hospital at Home service will provide care, support and treatment by a professional multi‑disciplinary team. We will promote a shared approach to older adults, with an emphasis on individual choices and recovery.
Main Functions Of The Service
* Increase stability and quality in the lives of patients and their carers/families through the provision of timely and clinically effective health and social care interventions that meet the needs of individuals in their own environment.
* Promote individuals’ participation in their own recovery and enable them to develop coping strategies. Gender, cultural issues and personal preferences will be considered within the referral and assessment process.
* Promote positive risk‑taking using a strengths‑based risk assessment approach.
* Support patients to engage with community‑based and neighbourhood services, to help avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
* Improve individuals’ social functioning and social inclusion and tackle issues such as loneliness and isolation that impact health and wellbeing through collaboration with other agencies.
* Work in partnership with carers so that carers are supported in their role and signposted where appropriate to carers’ support services.
* Protect the emotional and physical safety of staff – as per risk management policies, staff wellbeing policy and supervision policy.
* Work in partnership with local authority social care colleagues to promote holistic assessment, care planning, interventions and outcomes.
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