Senior Specialist Social Worker - Sunflower House inLiverpool inLiverpool PUBLISHED
MON 4 NOV 2024
Band 6: £37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum
PERMANENT
CASELOAD FAMILY MENTAL HEALTH MULTI-DISCIPLINARY NHS SOCIAL WORK
Opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to supporting children with mental health complexities.
Chance to directly influence and improve the discharge process for patients with complex needs, helping to address non-medical barriers.
Engagement in a dynamic and varied role that requires innovative problem-solving skills.
Ability to make a substantial contribution to clinical work and patient care in a renowned children's health environment.
Collaboration with a wide range of professionals, including health professionals, educators, and service providers, ensuring a child-centred approach.
Participation in service development and the opportunity to provide consultation, enhancing professional growth.
The role of "Senior Specialist Social Worker - Sunflower House" at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool involves working full-time within a multi-disciplinary team focused on supporting children with mental health complexities in a secure environment. The successful candidate will address non-medical barriers to discharge, engage with a diverse range of stakeholders (including health professionals, parents, and educational services), and ensure a child-centered approach to discharge planning. Responsibilities include managing a varied clinical caseload, conducting assessments, providing consultations, and collaborating with team members to enhance service development. The position requires strong problem-solving skills and the ability to represent the team both regionally and nationally, while also providing support to cover other service areas as needed.
Senior Specialist Social Worker - Sunflower House
Sunflower House is looking for a full time Social Worker. The post is an exciting opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team who are proactive in supporting Children with mental health complexities within a secure environment and across the Trust. It will be a varied role; looking to address the non-medical barriers to discharge that this complex cohort of patients face and will need an enthusiastic, innovative and problem solving applicant who will be able to support and represent the team both internally and externally across the region and nationally.
The team aims to support the complex patient's journey through Sunflower House and are child and family focused, ensuring that this complex cohort of patients get the optimum support to guide them through their patient stay in Sunflower House and back home.
- To be a team member within the Sunflower House providing a substantial contribution to the clinical work of the team: including accepting, prioritising and assessing referrals of children and their families.
- You will work in partnership with other health professionals, parents, carers, education and other service providers to ensure a child centred approach to discharge planning.
- To carry and be responsible for a varied clinical caseload, to organise this caseload effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and time.
- In addition, they may provide consultation to professionals from other services and participate in service development
- To provide cover to other areas of service as necessary to support other members of the team.
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- Working closely with Lead Clinicians and other multi-disciplinary team members across the trust
- Working closely with extended multi-disciplinary members to ensure effective communication to support the patient Journey
- The post sits within Alder Hey but works across NHS England.
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