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About
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Case Manager - Adult Eating Disorders, Oxford or Swindon
Closed for applications on: 9-Aug-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 9-Aug-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Slade
- Address
- Horspath Driftway
- Town
- Oxford (or Swindon)
- Postcode
- OX3 7JH
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nursing & Midwifery
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We know Job Descriptions and Specifications can sometimes be long which can be off-putting for some people, and we don’t want to let that deter you from applying.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQI+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you!
Job overview
We are seeking a Specialised Mental Health Case Manager with mental health clinical and practice background to be part of our Adult Eating Disorder HOPE (Healthy Outcomes for People with Eating Disorders) Provider Collaborative.
The Adult Eating Disorder HOPE PC brings together inpatient and community providers to improve clinical care across a defined geographical region and to ensure that patients receive inpatient treatment as close to their home as possible. This is an innovative network of partners across a large geography covering Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset and Gloucestershire.
The partnership brings together clinical expertise, experience, and innovation, aiming to improve quality, use resources most effectively, and deliver best practice consistently to all patients.
You will actively be working in partnership to innovate to improve patient provisions and outcomes.
About the location:
Office space is available in Oxford & Swindon.
Advert
- To provide clinical assurance of the quality of the care provided by services / providers within the HOPE region, and for those patients placed in out of area placements.
- Support the team in the assurance of specialised services compliance to applicable specification and guidance including Transforming Care.
- Provide the link with Integrated Care Boards (ICB) and their commissioned services within the network to ensure there is a coordinated approach to care and discharge planning, which results in robust and effective care packages.
- Monitoring and overseeing individual patient pathways to ensure high quality services and care planning outcomes are achieved.
- Have oversight of the overall patient pathway, supporting strong multiagency involvement to ensure patients are receiving care in the least restrictive environment and barriers to discharge are expediently addressed.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Ensuring safe and effective care pathways are in place, overseeing robust access assessments, for all patients within the HOPE Provider Collaborative, within the NHS and Independent Sector.
Please see attached JD/PS for details.
- All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
- Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Detailed knowledge of legal issues pertaining to specialised mental health services, including MHA 1983, S117 after care, DOLS, MCA, safeguarding and child protection legislation.
- Detailed operational knowledge of specialist area, acquired through post graduate training or equivalent experience, plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent.
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse or other registered health or social care professional
- Relevant additional professional qualification (e.g. master’s level) or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Technical Expertise/ Competence
Essential criteria
- Development and maintenance of therapeutic alliance with patients and their families / carers.
- Case management skills, focusing on the needs of the individual and the context of their care pathway in relation to all clinical and legal processes.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sheena Peters
- Job title
- Senior Clinical Pathway Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07584 142535
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
No longer accepting applications
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