Case managers have significant experience of working within mental health and learning disability and Autism settings, often holding clinical and/or operational leadership roles within a provider. Through application of this knowledge and experience they provide credible oversight and facilitation of care for mental health within secure care. While working to the generic case manager job description, as outlined below, this post has a specific focus on supporting care pathways and discharges of patients with a learning disability and Autism in the East Midlands area. Case managers have influence over commissioning plans and decisions and more specifically they support IMPACTs commissioning hub and the wider provider collaborative by: providing oversight of patient pathways who are within mental health secure care, identifying potential/actual gaps in provision and providing early identification of barriers to progress that may hinder patient flow. being a first point of contact for providers and wider stakeholders to discuss individual patient cases. proactively being involved prior to admission to mental health secure care with coordination of referral and assessment information. This includes supporting Integrated Care Systems (ICS) community teams with robust identification of patients that do not require secure care. proactively working with wider stakeholders to facilitate smooth transitions when required and discharges from mental health secure care (supporting providers to meet agreed estimated dates of discharge) liaising with all stakeholders on cases which become complex and require escalation listening to and talking with patients, their families and carersensuring the voices of patients and their families are heard and acted upon monitoring and reviewing the quality and safety of provisionobserving providers in practice monitoring and reviewing quality information and local intelligence e.g. on patient flow/future trends to identify future bed provision/gaps in services ensuring effective service development and delivery of adult secure services within and across boundaries/ other PCs. The case management team has specific responsibility for the East Midlands population and as such this requires managing people in placements outside of the region. The team also connect with counterpart case managers, in their roles within other Provider Collaboratives, when their patients are placed within the East Midlands area. Conduct their role in accordance with IMPACTs set values and consistently support and champion IMPACTs quality and outcome ambitions. Provide clinical pathway advice across the Provider Collaborative to support improved quality of care and experience for service users in secure and non-secure services (guided by national and local case management SOPs). Maintain delivery of clinical actions for their own caseload of patients. Help to problem solve cases that require escalation. These may be complex clinical cases, cases where there is difficulty in accessing services, cases requiring same day urgent attention (e.g. a patient recall), or for longer term planning e.g. patients returning from in placements out of area. Work closely with mental health/learning disability and autism professionals across five ICSs and other statutory bodies who are instrumental to forensic care pathways (e.g. Ministry of Justice, Prisons, Courts) to support pathway interfaces, service developments and improvements. Work closely with colleagues in the commissioning hub leading on quality/performance and contracting. Support the commissioning hub in driving transformation, as well as value for money, in the planning and commissioning of services. Refine current processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery. Provide cover within the team for other case managers when they are on leave and to deputise as necessary for the Senior Case Manager. If you would like to know more and to speak to a member of our team, please contact Vikki Spink vikki.spink@nottshc.nhs.uk Closing Date: Midnight Thursday 27 February 2025 Shortlisting date: Friday 28 February 2025 Interview Date: Friday 14 March 2025