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Care Co-Ordinator / Social Worker

Employer
West London NHS Trust
Location
Tri-borough, London
Salary
Competitive salary
Closing date
14 May 2021

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West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of NHS mental and physical care in the UK. We are rated 'good' by the Care Quality Commission and 'outstanding' for caring and our forensic services.

We are here to care for people with mental and physical illness, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries, care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

Our physical healthcare services include intermediate care services in Ealing as part of the Community Independence Service partnership.

Our national, specialist and forensic services include:
  • Medium secure services on the St Bernard's Hospital site in Ealing
  • Services for people with complex and severe personality disorder at the Cassel Hospital in Richmond
  • High secure services at Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire

We are a teaching Trust with a growing research portfolio, working with academic and industry partners.

Our 3400 staff are dedicated to improving lives, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

West London NHS Trust, Adult Community Rehabilitation Team

With West London NHS Trust's planned expansion and development of its community rehabilitation service in the three boroughs it serves, Hounslow, Ealing and Hammersmith and Fulham. An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced, enthusiastic and forward-thinking Social Worker to join the West London NHS Trust's community rehabilitation team. This is a newly developed team which supports people with complex psychosis in the community. The team will work at a high intensity with a low caseload number and a whole-team commitment to developing close community partnerships.

The role will focus on occupational therapy specific skills rather than generic care-coordination roles, including specialist occupational therapy assessment, individual interventions and delivering the innovative group programme.

To quickly recruit to and embed these new teams, this post attracts a generous "golden hello", which is an extra 10% of your Basic annual salary in the first year.

This post's golden hello attracts an additional £3,136 - £3,789 (Based on increment level) at the end of your 4-month probation period. This only applies to external candidates.

West London NHS Trust has a commitment to enabling staff to access tailored personal development plans. Unlike other NHS organisations, we have not reduced our training budgets. As result, you will have access to several professional development opportunities including:
  • PGDip in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis
  • Bachelors or Masters degrees
  • Apprenticeships
  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
  • Assessment of Motor and Process Skills
  • Sensory Integration
  • Open Dialogue
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Non-Medical Prescribing
  • Quality Service, Improvement and Redesign
  • Clinical Supervision
  • Leadership and Management
  • And other personal requests which are in line with the role

The post holder will provide leadership to embed a number of guiding principles including: recovery ways of working, formulation driven care, proactive and positive care, trauma-informed care and least restrictive practice. These opportunities provide a fantastic way of progressing to more senior positions in the service where there are existing vacancies.

The community rehabilitation teams will provide support for people with complex care needs related to psychosis and (where relevant) co-existing substance use and physical health problems. With a multidisciplinary and whole-team approach, these services will have an emphasis on delivering individualised and recovery-focussed care for people.

Importantly, our care will be provided close to peoples' their communities, social networks and homes, enabling people to transition away from restrictive settings. Therefore, the teams will be key partners in supporting the flow of patients from inpatient to supported and independent accommodations.

With the team expansion, this will be a perfect opportunity for the successful applicant to contribute, make a difference and shape community occupational therapy in the rehabilitation service, to make it more flexible, responsive and accessible. This role will offer you a chance not only develop your specialist clinical skills but also give you opportunity to contribute to service development.

For further information, please do contact us on. We look forward to hearing from you

Paul Dore (Interim Team Manager): 07940739051 or [email protected]

For further details / informal visits contact:

NamePaul Dore

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We reserve the right to close adverts prior to the closing date stated should we receive a high volume of applications. If you do not hear back from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short-listed on this occasion.

All staff identified as at-risk and who meet the requirements of the post will be prioritised accordingly.

We offer Relocation packages for some positions (including Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses) - a relocation allowance of up to £8000 is offered for those who meet a required criteria.

Registered Nurses are required to produce their current NMC Revalidation documents/Portfolio at the assessment centre for verification, unless you are a newly qualified nurse from University.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to West London NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, you will be required to undergo a pre-employment check which can take between 4-8 weeks. After which your information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system

Please ensure you include professional email addresses and contact numbers for your referees which MUST be at supervisory or managerial capacity covering the last 3 years of employment to date to avoid delay in the recruitment process. If your current/most recent organisation is an NHS trust, we will be requesting one reference from your current line manager/HR department.

West London NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding of all children and vulnerable adults, eliminating discrimination for all groups and achieving equality of opportunity regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief and sexuality. We aim to create a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve at all levels of seniority within the Trust. We are therefore particularly interested in receiving applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds'.

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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