Keyworker

**Keyworker**:
**Band 5**:
**Main area**
- CAMHS
- **Grade**
- Band 5
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-1591**Site**
- Lemon Villas
- **Town**
- Truro
- **Salary**
- £27,055 - £32,934 Per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 08/01/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
The Keyworker Role is a ground-breaking 3 year pilot initiative, developed by NHS England and NHS Improvement Long Term Plan to improve outcomes for children and young people with Autism and / or Learning Disabilities, who are either in a mental inpatient setting or who are at risk of being admitted.

The role is unique in its development of a multi-agency commitment around the child to improve health, social and educational outcomes for the child and young person.

**Main duties of the job**:
The role is developmental and will evolve during the pilot, requiring a flexible approach. Functions for the role initially will be to ensure:
Multi-agency co-ordination around the young person’s Person Centred Support Plan, taking into account influencing factors including the wider family’s needs.

The voice of the child or young person (advocacy) is heard and accurately captured throughout assessments and reviews of the formulation of need and the care planning process,

Approaches from the assessment and formulation of strategies and plans (including positive behaviour support plans, communication plans, and environmental adaptations) devised by the clinical team are understood and consistently delivered across care settings including the home, education and care settings through intensive modelling.

Trouble-shooting to ensure the right help and consistent care, as set out in support plans can be implemented. This will involve direct contact with settings responsible for implementing the PBSP.

Escalation to the Team Manager where there are concerns the child’s emotional and mental health is deteriorating or complex behaviour is escalating, including working with NHS Kernow to instigate Care, Education and Treatment Reviews and review by the Complex Care Panel.

Knowledge and experience of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and the ability to act in accordance with Trust procedures.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

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