Consultant Social Worker- Delivery Improvement - London, United Kingdom - Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Description

Job overview

This is a new and exciting role within the Directorate of Social Care, which will continue to evolve over time. This role is pivotal to the Partnership, ensuring the development of person centred, trauma-informed, strength-based, and collaborative mental health care within the boroughs. As a multi-faceted position, you will support and advise divisions on good social work practices, emphasising psychosocial approaches, community integration, and the improved delivery of mental health services. Representing the social care directorate, you will champion a trauma-informed, person-centred approach throughout an individual's journey.

Your role may be patient or community facing, or a combination, preventing admission, and supporting flow and discharge. You will have a strong commitment to a home first model.

This high-profile position requires you to provide technically competent and legally literate advice in complex situations, to lead and direct work as indicated, and promote collaborative working within and outside of the Partnership, including, but not limited to Social Care, safeguarding, primary care, secondary care, community teams, VCS. You will be skilled in understanding strength-based working, home-first thinking, and human rights-centric approaches. This is a hybrid and agile-based role working across the Partnership's sites with an expectation to have a physical presence on sites when required.

Main duties of the job

This role will be based within the Social Care Directorate and will be responsible to the Director of Delivery Improvement (Operations), and will be managed by a Senior Consultant Social Worker. There is an expectation that you will be responsible for managing your own time against targets and outcomes set with/by the Director of Delivery Improvement(operations) or by the directorate's departmental management team. The key responsibilities are:

• Provide professional Social Work leadership on person centred, trauma informed, psychosocial approaches to mental health.
• Provide social work leadership across NLMHP.
• Lead on the development and delivery of safe practice to support other professionals with discharge planning.
• Assist in developing robust working relationships and new ways of working involving stakeholders.
• Ensure adherence to social care best practice with social inclusion and recovery at the heart of care offered across NLMHP.
• Develop innovative and collaborative mental health provision across NLMHP through promotion of social care values and principles.
• Act as part of a team of lead social care practitioners across NLMHP, in a range of settings, from advising on individual cases to supporting teams develop new skills and approaches from a trauma informed and psychosocial perspective.
• Lead for the Social Care Directorate in supporting reduction in length of stay, as well as admission avoidance, acting as part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team.

Working for our organisation

• The partnership between Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Partnership.
• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. JOB SUMMARY

This is a new and exciting role within the Directorate of Social Care, which will continue to evolve over time. This role is pivotal to the Partnership, ensuring the development of person centred, trauma-informed, strength-based, and collaborative mental health care within the boroughs. As a multi-faceted position, you will support and advise divisions on good social work practices, emphasising psychosocial approaches, community integration, and the improved delivery of mental health services. Representing the social care directorate, you will champion a trauma-informed, person-centred approach throughout an individual's journey.

Your role may be patient or community facing, or a combination, preventing admission, and supporting flow and discharge. You will have a strong commitment to a home first model.

This high-profile position requires you to provide technically competent and legally literate advice in complex situations, to lead and direct work as indicated, and promote collaborative working within and outside of the Partnership, including, but not limited to Social Care, safeguarding, primary care, secondary care, community teams, VCS. You will be skilled in understanding strength-based working, home-first thinking, and human rights-centric approaches. This is a hybrid and agile-based role working across the Partnership's sites with an expectation to have a physical presence on sites when required.

1. RELATIONSHIPS/COMMUNICATIONS

Internal : Divisional Senior Management Teams (SMT); Social Care Directorate Management Team (DMT)); Operational Delivery Board, VCS partners, Community Team Managers, and staff, CRHTT Team Managers and Staff, Clinical Consultants (community and inpatient), Ward Staff and People who use our services

External: Assistant Directors of Social Care; Borough Heads of Social Care/Mental Health. Heads of Service, and other local authority social care leaders and social workers, Housing and third sector staff

The postholder will be at ease in working with all levels of colleagues and partners and particularly will be able to:

• Work in a highly complex environment across multiple systems, providing visible social work and social care leadership to partners in local authorities.
• Participate in the development, implementation, and review of Section 75 agreements and other partnerships between the Local Authority and the divisions.
• Work with Local Authority partners on robust governance arrangements and quality service standards for the delivery of integrated Mental Health Act assessments and promote effective partnerships with local AMHP services

2. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

This role will be based within the Social Care Directorate and will be responsible to the Director of Delivery Improvement (Operations), and will be managed by a Senior Consultant Social Worker. There is an expectation that you will be responsible for managing your own time against targets and outcomes set with/by the Director of Delivery Improvement(operations) or by the directorate's departmental management team. The key responsibilities are:

• Provide professional Social Work leadership on person centred, trauma informed, psychosocial approaches to mental health.
• Provide social work leadership across NLMHP.
• Lead on the development and delivery of safe practice to support other professionals with discharge planning.
• Assist in developing robust working relationships and new ways of working involving stakeholders.
• Ensure adherence to social care best practice with social inclusion and recovery at the heart of care offered across NLMHP.
• Develop innovative and collaborative mental health provision across NLMHP through promotion of social care values and principles.
• Act as part of a team of lead social care practitioners across NLMHP, in a range of settings, from advising on individual cases to supporting teams develop new skills and approaches from a trauma informed and psychosocial perspective.
• Lead for the Social Care Directorate in supporting reduction in length of stay, as well as admission avoidance, acting as part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team
• Financial Responsibilit
• The postholder will be responsible to the Director of Delivery Improvement for ensuring appropriate expenditure against directorate budge
• Responsibility for Human Resources

The post holder will-

• Be required to participate in a variety of meetings, including, but not limited to hospital formulation meetings, discharge planning meetings, cause for concern (Hospital admission avoidance) MDT Meetings, and others as directed by the Director for Delivery Improvement
• Lead Information giving sessions, and training for staff as required.
• Postholder may be required to provide supervision of business support staff or more junior social workers.
• Responsibility for Administration
• The postholder is required to keep patient records up to date on RIO and other reporting systems, maintain a professional diary of work, actively collate data as required, and maintain a high standard of contemporaneous record keeping.
• Responsibility for IT and Digital Systems/Services
• The postholder is required to have basic skills to enable the use of Microsoft software products, outlook email platforms and diary maintenance.
• Use of Microsoft teams is required, and knowledge of spreadsheets.
• To work closely with business support team within the directorate.

3. OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the development of excellent working partnerships.
• Contribute to the development of social work and social care partnerships within wider NLMHP integrated programmes and initiatives.
• Provide social work leadership on the development and implementation of social care personalisation (including personal health budgets), strengths & assets-based approaches, trauma-informed care, and rights-based practice within the Divisions (including undertaking audits and practice reviews).
• Champion the development of clearly specified mental health social care roles within integrated mental health services.
• To work collaboratively and in partnerships with all stakeholders, including, but not limited to, local authorities, service user groups, carer groups, voluntary sector community groups, 3rd sector organizations, across NLMHP.

1. POLICY / SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

• Provide professional and visible leadership that inspires, motivates, and empowers social workers across the divisions in all care settings.
• Strengthen the professional identity of social workers in the Division, ensuring that the profession is nurtured, and its voice is prominent.
• Develop policies and operating procedures as required to facilitate collaborative working, information sharing, and trauma informed, psychosocial approaches

2. GENERAL

• All staff are responsible for the continual compliance with CQC standards and outcomes
• The postholder must be aware of, and work in line with, the Trust's Safeguarding Adults and Children procedures.

3. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

All staff are required to be appraised by their line managers at least once a year at a personal development review meeting where progress made over the last year is discussed and agreed. Focus on the following year's departmental and personal objectives will be identified, discussed, and agreed. Where necessary, help and support will be provided, and development opportunities agreed in line with service provision and knowledge and skills competency framework.

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria

• Registered social worker
• Degree/Diploma in social work or equivalent.
• Management qualification and/or extensive knowledge and expertise acquired through experience and/or training up to master's level

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

• Experience of delivering professional social work leadership
• Experience of management at a senior level within social care and of meeting objectives and performance management targets.
• Proven track record of working across complex organisational and system wide boundaries and collaboration

Desirable criteria

• Understands business and financial concepts and the importance of developing a performance management culture
• Can develop KPI's, performance and risk management frameworks and deliver results

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential criteria

• Evidence of excellent leadership and management skills
• Knowledge of safeguarding children and adults
• Detailed understanding of the statutory and regulatory frameworks relevant to the delivery of social work and social care.

Desirable criteria

• Grasps complex problems and understands immediate and long- term implications of decisions