You will be a Senior Care Coordinator within the Learning Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder Keyworker Service for Barnet, Enfield and Haringey: providing direct support to children with learning disabilities and/or autism with mental health needs and/or presenting with behaviours of concern.
The LD/ASD Keyworker Service provides intensive interventions for children and young people who are part of the LD & ASD cohort. The aim is to keep children, young people in the community, to prevent avoidable admissions to Tier 4 inpatient mental health services and 52-week residential placements, and to support young people in this cohort, to be discharged from Tier 4 services and be supported back into the community.
You will be liaising and coordinating with a range of teams and organisations across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey, including CAMHS providers, social care teams, Tier 4 providers, schools, and other community health providers.
The service is NCL wide but has two teams working across two localities:
1) Camden and Islington
2) Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey.
This post is within the Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey Branch but the teams will come together to ensure both locality teams work together to develop shared processes and protocols as well as reporting systems.
Main duties of the job
Manage the scheduling and chairing/supporting of CETRs for children and young people across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey who have been identified as part of the LD and/or Autism Service and are at risk of admission, in order to support delivery of a multi-agency approach to care planning which enables children and young people to be effectively supported in the community.
Ensuring that NCL CCG and NHSE Specialised Commissioning are delivering on good practice and key performance indicators such as holding Blue Light meetings, three-monthly CETRs, realistic planned discharge dates, allocation of care co-ordinators etc.
Reviewing CETR recommendations and liaising with commissioners to highlight emerging barriers and trends to inform future commissioning and service delivery decisions.
Attending meetings which provide an opportunity to discuss discharge planning such as inpatient MDTs, CTRs, CPA, taking place either at CAMHS inpatient settings or residential settings.
Working with Commissioners, CAMHS, Children's Disability Teams, social care and Adult LD and MH teams to develop arrangements that support early intervention and prevention for children on risk registers, such as developing personalised care and resource planning, supporting early information sharing and identification of escalating needs and monitoring outcomes for children with complex needs on risk registers, including those placed outside of boroughs.
About us
The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job responsibilities
The Senior Care Coordinator will work jointly across Local Authorities in Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey and with NCL CCG. There may also be a need to work with colleagues in the remaining NCL boroughs of Camden and Islington. There will be a requirement to chair and/or support CETRs on behalf of local commissioners, and on some occasions, travel across and outside London may also be required.
Person Specification
Education
* oRegistration as a Social Worker, Learning Disability Nurse or Registered Mental Health Nurse/or a relevant professional qualification.
* oEvidence of continued professional development.
Skills
* oAbility to co-ordinate delivery of regular and timely CETRs for children and young people, with the aim of reducing admissions and improving care planning that supports individuals effectively in the community.
* oAbility to work with operational professionals to deliver robust multi-disciplinary and multi-agency care management.
Experience
* oA sound understanding and insight into care management practice, commissioning and funding arrangements for children's health and care within the statutory sector
* oAbility to oversee complex support plans and risk assessments, assess need and risk, including the impact of neurodevelopmental differences or disabilities, behaviours of concern and mental health on day-to-day functioning.
* Experience of commissioning within health or social care settings.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£51,883 to £58,544 a yearPer annum including HCAS
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