Mental Health Practitioner Social Worker

6 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

The post holder will play a vital role in ensuring efficient, appropriate and safe patient flow from acute hospitals, utilising the bed capacity at St Pancras and following the journey of each patient from admission through to their discharge.

This will be achieved through developing excellent working relationships with acute discharge teams as well as the St Pancras rehabilitation wards, and working with patients, families and key stakeholders to ensure that transfer back to community life is seamless. The post holder will link with the Central Access Team and the Leadership team to provide information, data and support daily reporting locally and across North Central London Partners.

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.

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality admission and discharge planning and co-ordination including administrative and practical support to Clinicians as required To appropriately prepare and plan patient admissions to the unit, factoring in specialist requirements, ensuring appropriate staffing and infection prevention control measures are in place to retain safety across the unit To proactively pre-plan admissions and discharges across the unit to maintain patient flow To maintain an overview of bed capacity for the unit and report any issues to the SPRU Operational lead or Head of IDT To ensure high quality communication occurs between St Pancras Rehabilitation and key stakeholders (patients, their families, support services and community teams both statutory and voluntary). To participate and lead (in absence of patient flow) proactively within the daily board rounds and teleconferences in identifying and addressing the needs of patients and tracking patient flow to discharge. To manage out of hours, pre-planning patients ahead of the weekend and communicate updates / issues to the bleepholder To run required reporting for bed capacity / barriers to discharge / referral management To act as the crucial communication link between the IDT and SPRU wards in relation to patient discharges To demonstrate the ability to work independently with supervision and seek appropriate support as necessary.

Working for our organisation

Our vision and values are underpinned by our strategic objectives:

Keeping the patient at our main focus.

We ensure that each patient is signposted to the right service, first time. This enables patients to have the best journey for their recovery.

Process, coordinate and manage referrals in a timely way.

We ensure our processes to receiving the right care is done swiftly and streamlined. Working with partners in a integrates and collaborative way to not delay our patients get the care and support that they need.Liaise with system partners – retain clear concise communication.

We coordinate the care and support needs of our patients using clear communication and compassion to ensure they are signposted to the right team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide high quality admission and discharge planning and co-ordination including administrative and practical support to Clinicians as required To appropriately prepare and plan patient admissions to the unit, factoring in specialist requirements, ensuring appropriate staffing and infection prevention control measures are in place to retain safety across the unit To proactively pre-plan admissions and discharges across the unit to maintain patient flow To maintain an overview of bed capacity for the unit and report any issues to the SPRU Operational lead or Head of IDT To work collaboratively in identifying barriers and the prioritisation of discharge activities (ward and community) to support positive patient outcomes. To ensure high quality communication occurs between St Pancras Rehabilitation and key stakeholders (patients, their families, support services and community teams both statutory and voluntary). To participate and lead (in absence of patient flow) proactively within the daily board rounds and teleconferences in identifying and addressing the needs of patients and tracking patient flow to discharge. To act as a specialist resource to support multiborough sign posting activity prior to and on discharge. To work collaboratively with the Integrated Discharge Team and the St Pancras Operational and Clinical Leadership Team to avoid delays in patient pathways To coordinate care and support in a timely way to avoid any system blocks and facilitate discharge To manage out of hours, pre-planning patients ahead of the weekend and communicate updates / issues to the bleepholder To run required reporting for bed capacity / barriers to discharge / referral management To act as the crucial communication link between the IDT and SPRU wards in relation to patient discharges To review and escalate complex cases where discharging barriers are identified and require additional senior support to enable smooth discharge To demonstrate the ability to work independently with supervision and seek appropriate support as necessary. To ensure that tasks/ actions from the Multidisciplinary meetings and board rounds are followed up and actioned in the absence of the patient flow. Ensure compliance with Trust and divisional policies and procedures To consistently work to agreed CNWL, CCG and National Policies, Protocols and Procedures including those related to patient discharge (e.g. ensuring the principles of Discharge to Assess are embedded into practice).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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