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Social Worker - Mental Health- Hospital Discharge Team
Job Posted: 4 days ago
Salary: £ 32 - 32 / Hour
Job Type: Temporary
Location: Dudley, West Midlands
Expire in: 24 days
Job Description
Job Title: Social Worker- Mental Health, Hospital Discharge
Rates: £32.00 per hour (Umbrella)
Location: Hybrid/Dudley Council
Duration: 6 - 18months
Aims and Objectives
Ensure the service user and carer have opportunity to have the shortest length of stay in institutional environment as possible.
Discharge will be efficient and effective, with appropriate personalised support ensuring user can be maintained at home and carer is considered and supported within any package of care, ensuring individual flexibility for support where possible and personalised planning aided by VSC support worker is completed.
Key contacts include NHS organisations; Black Country Health Care Trust, Acute Hospitals as well as any community mental health or physical health teams. Local authority SW Teams and VSC provider
Duties include:
Able to complete care act assessments and make recommendations - start the process of such recommendations
Expectation to complete capacity assessments
Regular attendance to ward reviews / pre discharge meetings / 117 reviews where appropriate
Regular link up with housing providers and external support agencies to facilitate discharges
To commit to regular meetings with discharge coordinator (health)
Be a point of contact to facilitate a smooth process to access social care support, and able to escalate accordingly and provide BCH with appropriate timescales and updates
Ensure effective communication with locality adult social care.
Explore options of respite / step down
Attending funding panel, make recommendations, present cases
Support any s117 funding tool applications as required.Connect2Dudley is a trading style of Dudley & Kent Commercial Services LTD - A joint venture between Dudley Metropolitan Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Dudley is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidatesBefore You Apply
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