Out of Area Forensic Specialist Worker

Key Responsibilities

1) Ensuring that patients care pathways are monitored and those patients at heightened risk of delay, transition through the service appropriately. This includes attending and participating liaison and referral meetings and Section 117 meetings with the nominated consultant as appropriate. 2) Ensuring that service users ready for discharge are discharged, or stepped down a level of security, within the appropriate timeframe. 3) Provide summary reports to senior managers as required (these include patient pathway reports, bed occupancy data, or caseload information). 4) Develop and promote positive relationships with housing providers, tenancy support teams, placements and local authorities. 5) Deliver a service with the agreed budget ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical cost effectiveness. 6) To assess needs, plan, implement and monitor care in collaboration with the service user, carers, and other members of the multi-disciplinary team. 7) To oversee and coordinate discharge planning and provide training to the wider team or external services regarding individual with complex care needs 8) To implement care that meets the mental, physical, spiritual, psychological and social needs of the service user, and that is sensitive to age, culture, race, gender, ethnicity, social class, sexuality and disability. 9) To work as part of the Forensic Community Team and undertake advanced clinical work, which will be subject to an agreed work plan. Managing complex cases and analysing and interpreting data in order that patients sit in the correct specialism. 10) Maintain a clear understanding of the services users placed out of Borough, by acting as a point of contact to attend CPAs, assertively manage discharge pathways, map transfers and reduce risk of delayed discharge. Providing senior clinical advice and support and reviewing potential discharges at heightened risk of delays. 11) To work within policy, professional and legal frameworks at all times. This requires knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct, risk assessment and child protection protocols, Mental Health Act and CPA, and Trust clinical policies. 12) The post holder must be adept at prioritising the activities that will provide the most efficient, effective and safe step down, or discharge pathway and escalate any conditions that will prevent this from happening. 13) Working with community Team Managers across the Trust to ensure all patients being discharged have an allocated RC and CC/Social Supervisor. 14) The post holder will need to be an advanced clinician in order to plan the patients care appropriately and engage in MDT discussions. Promoting and developing and role modelling high standards of clinical care. 15) The post holder will embed Quality and Safety Governance Standards within the teams. 16) Undertaking programmes of audit, quality improvement and research within the service and implement the findings, where agreed with senior managers. 17) Assisting in the development and implementation of care pathway clinical tools, so that at any one time it is possible to know where each patient is on their pathway and what the next steps will be. 18) Assisting teams and individuals to negotiate changes in practice required to meet ongoing service developments and identify and implement best practice in the delivery of Mental Health Services. 19) Developing knowledge and skill in Quality Improvement methodologies, which is role modelled and used to develop and improve clinical services. 20) Supporting clear lines of communication and positive working relationships across professional and organisation boundaries, to ensure timely and well-coordinated transitions of care and that the treatment received is in line with best practice. 21) Working to improve the culture of integration across community and inpatient practice, through the promotion of a Recovery Model, which priorities social inclusion by means of collaborative care planning and psycho-social interventions, using the principles of positive risk management and new ways of working. 22) Working collaboratively with the Governance Team, Safeguarding Leads, the SLP Pathways Coordinators, Community Teams, Home Treatment Teams, Housing agencies, Social Services and other teams and agencies, to facilitate all people who use our services, moving appropriately through the care pathways.