Role Purpose
1. To provide senior professional leadership, expert forensic mental health advice and case management for adults with complex mental health needs, offending histories and high-risk presentations, ensuring safe, lawful and recovery-focused practice across forensic and community rehabilitation pathways.
2. To provide case management, guidance, support and expert advice to social care staff, students, and partner staff as and when required, maintaining the highest level of professional service.
3. Assess and prioritise incoming referrals, from members of the public or other professionals or services: formulate an appropriate response and take action to resolve or refer as appropriate.
4. To provide professional supervision for social care staff including undertaking regular case file audits, and to identify continuing professional development and training needs of the staff working with the Team Manager to meet these needs.
5. Undertake emergency and other assessments of needs, risks and options for adults with the most complex/high risk care needs and/or circumstances, in accordance with legislative requirements, all relevant policies and procedures and agreed performance targets.
6. To provide advice, information and guidance to customers and their carers ensuring that the relevant legislative framework and councils policies are adhered to.
7. To undertake Safeguarding Enquiries under Section 42 of the Care Act 2014 and work as a Safeguarding Adult’s Manager when required.
8. Undertake Care Act 2014 assessment and support planning for more complex cases when necessary. May be required to hold a limited case load of more complex cases eg legal and safeguarding work.
9. Chair Safeguarding meetings/ planning meetings/ case conferences/ strategy meetings as appropriate to specialised field/ local structures.
10. To assist the Team Manager in leading, setting and implementing a performance management framework and ambitious service performance targets, practice standards and competencies within employee’s profession fields of work.
11. To demonstrate the values of Haringey Council in everything you do
Salary description
£26.24 - £26.24 per hour