Senior Care Coordinator

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Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

You will be a Senior Care Coordinator within the Learning Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder Keyworker Service for Barnet, Enfield and Haringey: providing direct support to children with learning disabilities and/or autism with mental health needs and/or presenting with behaviours of concern.

The LD/ASD Keyworker Service provides intensive interventions for children and young people who are part of the LD & ASD cohort. The aim is to keep children, young people in the community, to prevent avoidable admissions to Tier 4 inpatient mental health services and 52-week residential placements, and to support young people in this cohort, to be discharged from Tier 4 services and be supported back into the community.

You will be liaising and coordinating with a range of teams and organisations across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey, including CAMHS providers, social care teams, Tier 4 providers, schools, and other community health providers.

The service is NCL wide but has two teams working across two localities:

1) Camden and Islington

2) Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey.

This post is within the Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey Branch but the teams will come together to ensure both locality teams work together to develop shared processes and protocols as well as reporting systems.

Main duties of the job
• Manage the scheduling and chairing/supporting of CETRs for children and young people across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey who have been identified as part of the LD and/or Autism Service and are at risk of admission, in order to support delivery of a multi-agency approach to care planning which enables children and young people to be effectively supported in the community.
• Ensuring that NCL CCG and NHSE Specialised Commissioning are delivering on good practice and key performance indicators such as holding Blue Light meetings, three-monthly CETRs, realistic planned discharge dates, allocation of care co-ordinators etc.
• Reviewing CETR recommendations and liaising with commissioners to highlight emerging barriers and trends to inform future commissioning and service delivery decisions.
• Attending meetings which provide an opportunity to discuss discharge planning such as inpatient MDTs, CTRs, CPA, taking place either at CAMHS inpatient settings or residential settings.
• Working with Commissioners, CAMHS, Children's Disability Teams, social care and Adult LD and MH teams to develop arrangements that support early intervention and prevention for children on risk registers, such as developing personalised care and resource planning, supporting early information sharing and identification of escalating needs and monitoring outcomes for children with complex needs on risk registers, including those placed outside of boroughs.

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 Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Senior Care Coordinator will work jointly across Local Authorities in Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey and with NCL CCG. There may also be a need to work with colleagues in the remaining NCL boroughs of Camden and Islington. There will be a requirement to chair and/or support CETRs on behalf of local commissioners, and on some occasions, travel across and outside London may also be required.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

• Registration as a Social Worker, Learning Disability Nurse or Registered Mental Health Nurse/or a relevant professional qualification.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to co-ordinate delivery of regular and timely CETRs for children and young people, with the aim of reducing admissions and improving care planning that supports individuals effectively in the community.
• Ability to work with operational professionals to deliver robust multi-disciplinary and multi-agency care management.

Experience

Essential criteria

• A sound understanding and insight into care management practice, commissioning and funding arrangements for children's health and care within the statutory sector
• Ability to oversee complex support plans and risk assessments, assess need and risk, including the impact of neurodevelopmental differences or disabilities, behaviours of concern and mental health on day-to-day functioning.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of commissioning within health or social care settings.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Senior Care Coordinator (PDF, 456.4KB)
• Functional Requirements PDF (PDF, 178.7KB)