Paediatric Specialist Rehabilitation Case Manager-VA323

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Are you an established case manager or a clinician with experience of working with children/young people and their families following life-changing injuries? Do you thrive on walking a path with your clients that takes them from injury to recovery and beyond?

As a rehabilitation case manager, your role is to assess and understand an injured child or young person's specific needs and use your clinical and professional skills to ensure a maximal recovery. This extends beyond just the individual's presenting physical and functional abilities, encompassing all aspects of their psychological, social and vocational situations and life participation. A collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach is key to ensuring effective outcomes and as case manager you are responsible for instructing, co-ordinating and progressing multi-disciplinary intervention with your client as the central focus. You will work along other invested stakeholders such as solicitors and insurers, which allows access to funding for private and augmentative intervention that may not be possible within standard statutory service provision.

Salary:
£35 000 to £50 000 per annum, depending on relevant experience

Personal Characteristics Required:

• Caring, empathetic and a good communicator
• Flexible thinking and problem solving
• Excellent time management and administration skills
• Excellent written skills - compilation of extensive reports, attention to detail, professional email communication
• Ability to assess holistically and compile clinically sound recommendations for intervention
• Ability to direct and co-ordinate a multitude of different services to ensure effective outcomes
• Ability to influence stakeholders with sound clinical judgement and reasoning
• Willingness to travel to hospital, residential and clinic locations under own means or via public transport

  Experience and Qualifications:

• Qualification in Nursing, Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
• Minimum of five years of clinical experience in the field of paediatric rehabilitation (brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputee, orthopaedics, polytrauma etc)
• Active HCPC registration, professional board membership and public liability insurance
• Working from within the UK, in the stipulated geographic location

  Preferred:

• An understanding of statutory services provisions in relation to life-changing injuries
• Experience in the field of rehabilitation case management
• Experience in or understanding of the personal injury rehabilitation market

  Benefits:

• Competitive, market-related salary
• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Company pension scheme with company contribution
• Health Cash Plan, with various levels of cover
• Working within a robust case management team staffed by multi-disciplinary professionals in a successful, growing company
• Company commitment to staff development and growth
• Home working and flexible working hour opportunities
• Travel expenses (client/work related) fully covered
• Professional memberships sponsored after first year of service