The Professional Lead Keyworker is to be a professionally qualified and registered practitioner e.g. Social Worker, Mental Health Nurse and/or Learning Disability Nurse, Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychologist, Teacher, Family Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Child Psychotherapist (for example)
Job overview
The Keyworker model is part of the NHS long term plan, this includes a current commitment that ‘by 2023/24 children and young people with a learning disability and/or who are autistic with the most complex needs will have a designated keyworker, implementing the recommendation made by Dame Christine Lenehan in These are our children.
The Black Country has been successful in its implementation of the model and as such has been tasked alongside 1 other system nationally to be a ‘proof of concept’ for expanding the service to a keyworker model for all ages who have a diagnosis of Learning Disability and/or Autism.
Key Functions:
1. Navigation
2. Upskilling
3. Empowerment
4. Challenge of Systems
Main duties of the job
1. Provide supervision to Keyworkers, support keyworkers with more complex cases and day-to-day operational management of keyworkers.
2. Increase the skills of front-line professionals, work alongside them and challenge the system when needed.
3. Co-produce personalised pen pictures which are strengths-based.
4. Identify and report on themes and gaps in system-wide service/provision, to inform commissioning intentions and wider workforce development.
5. Support in multi-agency meetings and produce a needs and outcomes-based Action Plan with timescales or update the CETR Action Plan.
6. Participate in the Dynamic At Risk Register as required.
7. Engage with our citizens and support the system’s understanding of each individual and their support network, demonstrating resilience.
8. Learn from peoples’ stories and articulate this to inform service development and redesign.
9. Increase local community support, reducing the demand on statutory services.
10. Ensure all individuals for whom the keyworker is involved have a clear personalised plan to promote their development, well-being and protect them from harm.
11. Celebrate equality and diversity across all areas.
12. Use the Service’s electronic communications system, database, spreadsheets, word processing packages and templates competently and promote the use of IT within the Team. Ensure a high standard of record keeping for all.
Working for our organisation
Employees, workers, and/or contractors will be expected to uphold the values of the Trust and exhibit the expected Trust behaviours aligned to the Trust’s values. Individuals have a responsibility to ensure that they display the Trust values and behaviours in carrying out their job and that individuals feel able to challenge (or raise a challenge) when other colleagues’ behaviours breach the spirit of Trust values.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will supervise the practice of the keyworking team, especially with regards to the most complex cases - mentoring, upskilling, co-working - and lead on improving practice and quality of service within the keyworking team. They will provide operational management for team members, be responsible for case prioritisation and allocation to the team, and drive the implementation of appropriate approaches to be used within the keyworking function.
They will carry their own keyworking caseload including highly complex cases, and co-working with keyworkers to support complex case practice development. They will lead by example, developing creative solutions to situations such as effective use of personal budgets. They will identify gaps in and barriers to effective multi-agency working for the individual, challenging these and using information to inform system-wide commissioning and workforce development.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring compliance with any metrics and collate data as appropriate to support evaluation of proof of concept. This person needs to be highly experienced with a wide breadth of experience and relevant qualities, passion and vision to be effective in this pivotal role.
We will recruit a professional from across social care, NHS, voluntary sectors and other appropriate backgrounds.
Person specification
Recruitment
Essential criteria
* Professional Registration
* Experience of leading a team/service
Desirable criteria
* Further training and knowledge
* Knowledge and experience of service development
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £46,148.00-£52,338.00 per year
Benefits:
* Additional leave
* Bereavement leave
* Canteen
* Childcare
* Company car
* Company events
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Discounted or free food
* Employee discount
* Employee mentoring programme
* Enhanced maternity leave
* Enhanced paternity leave
* Flexitime
* Free flu jabs
* Free or subsidised travel
* Free parking
* Health & wellbeing programme
* On-site parking
* Referral programme
* Relocation assistance
* Sick pay
* Store discount
* Transport links
* UK visa sponsorship
Schedule:
* Day shift
* Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
* Wolverhampton (West Midlands): reliably commute or be willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
* Professional registration (required)
* Experience of leading service/team (required)
* Working with LD/Autism (preferred)
Work authorisation:
* United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 285-7362-LD
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