An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Case Manager (Older Adult Mental Health) at the Humber and North Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Collaborative.
The post holder will work alongside the Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Collaborative to provide additional centralised capacity to drive the Out of Area Hospital placements work.
Please ensure approval for secondment is sought prior to application being submitted.This is a part-time post of 22.5 hours (3 days per week).
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service; supporting managers and staff across Humber and North Yorkshire to ensure safe and effective care pathways are in place for service users of specialised mental health care settings within the NHS and Independent sectors.
This will include:
* Undertaking face to face quality visits - which will include travel outside of the Humber and North Yorkshire region.
* Agreeing robust discharge plans in line with national guidance
* Liaising with key partners from the system to ensure local services can meet individual need, and oversee the repatriation of individuals. Partners will include named local case manager, social care, housing, complex care directorate, local NHS providers, specialised commissioning, MoJ
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Job responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Skills and Competencies
* Demonstrate an understanding of the requirements of quality in healthcare and commissioning healthcare services.
* Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
Qualifications & Knowledge
* Registered Mental Health / Learning Disability Nurse or other registered health or social care professional
* Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
* Knowledge of Quality improvement tools/processes e.g., clinical audit, investigation tools, national serious incident policy
* Knowledge and experience of one or more specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training
* Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Experience
* Experience of managing clinical risks and reporting.
* Case Management/Investigations experience
* Experience of working in quality assurance/quality improvement
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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