Mersey Care is developing a new service to support discharge from Inpatient services. The service will be a social work led initiative to ensure timely discharges in line with statutory frameworks. We are looking to recruit 5 experienced Band 6 social workers.
The service will support capacity and flow in Inpatient beds within the Mental Health Care Division (MHCD), focusing on patients at heightened risk of delayed, complex discharge, and those Clinically Ready for Discharge (CRFD) in Adult and Complex Care. There will be a specific role to support this activity: Discharge Facilitator (Social Work Registered Practitioner). This role will act as a link with Local Authorities, working closely alongside the ward consultant, ward manager, patient/family, and the wider MDT to ensure collaborative working for appropriate discharge.
The Discharge Facilitator posts will support our Inpatient Units across the following areas:
* Liverpool
* Sefton
* Knowsley
* Halton
* St Helens
* Warrington
The post holder will be responsible for the effective coordination of patient discharges throughout the mental health inpatient units across the division. Responsibilities include:
* Working closely with inpatient clinicians and multidisciplinary team members to deliver a high-quality, patient-focused service.
* Acting as a key liaison person between the inpatient units and the crisis resolution home treatment team.
* Identifying, in collaboration with colleagues in the inpatient units, delayed discharges and monitoring these delays, escalating as appropriate.
* Providing 48-hour and 7-day follow-up for service users discharged from inpatient services who are new to the service and returning to primary care.
* Attending the division delayed discharge meeting and providing updates to the group.
* Identifying, in collaboration with the inpatient units, service users who have required multiple admissions to inpatient services and linking with relevant community teams to reduce the number of admissions or length of stay required.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, including mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We are currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details or informal visits contact: Name: Mark Hodge Job title: Social Care Lead Email address: mark.hodge@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07502880213
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